AMD 64 / Asus motherboard / Nvidia for Vista update

[- Bobb -]

I checked my x86 RC1 event log and see a lot of errors related to ACPI in
PCI slot 11, 13.
I went to dev mgr to disable ACPI - not an option when I right-click.
SO I then went to ASUS and Nvidia to check for updates and to be honest I
don't even know what's what anymore. DO I need to update from ASUS or
NVIDIA - anyone else done this ?

I've got a ASUS A8N-E motherboard with AMD Athlon64 that came with an Nvidia
CD due to some onboard Nvidia stuff. I went to ASUS and I see references to
Win2003 - is that Vista ? ( their website is useless).

I go to dev mgr - view by connection - expand my pc - then expand ACPI then
MS compliant system and I see a lot of Nvidia Nforce stuff listed. At
Nvidia I did a search for ASUS - no hits for my motherboard, but I do see
Nforce software listed but which version ?
I went to http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce4_family.html
There is one that is NVIDIA nForce4 ( no Ultra, no SLI) , so that's what
I'll try but anyone else have a better way of doing this ?

 

[Guest]

Theory teaches:
You should always go to the motherboard manufacturer web site in order to
download the right drivers for it.

Practice teaches:
After one year of existence in the market, do not expect the manufacturer to
release new drivers for your "old" mobo.
Your ASUS mobo uses the NForce 4 chipstet.

Go to:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Choose:
Platform / nForce drivers
Choose:
NForce 4 AMD
Choose:
<Your Operating System>
Press:
Go!

That works for official drivers (non beta).

For the latest beta drivers, go to this page:
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

In your case I would turn off the PC, unplug all the PCI cards, reboot and
see if the error is still there (it should be gone).
Then reinsert your PCI cards (power off!!!) one at the time and see if the
problem shows up again.

Carlos

 

[- Bobb -]

reply inline:

Theory teaches:
You should always go to the motherboard manufacturer web site in order to
download the right drivers for it.

Practice teaches:
After one year of existence in the market, do not expect the manufacturer
to
release new drivers for your "old" mobo.

Kinda what I figured so win2003 was for SERVER 2003 not Windows Vista . So
ASUS is no help - that was really my issue - how to update " all the onboard
stuff" ( strange that I got this mobo at a Microsoft Vista/AMD show, yet no
support for Vista listed by ASUS)

Your ASUS mobo uses the NForce 4 chipstet. Thanks

Go to:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Choose:
Platform / nForce drivers
Choose:
NForce 4 AMD
Choose:
<Your Operating System>
Press:
Go!

Only 2000/2003/XP no Vista , so I followed next step

That works for official drivers (non beta).

For the latest beta drivers, go to this page:
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

and there it lists vista RC1 updates, but has only 4 drivers - audio/raid
etc - not for "all of the nvidia stuff I have onboard" as they have for the
supported OS'es at http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

In your case I would turn off the PC, unplug all the PCI cards, reboot and
see if the error is still there (it should be gone).
Then reinsert your PCI cards (power off!!!) one at the time and see if the
problem shows up again.

Carlos

Will do but since it's OK in XP , I don't suspect hw issue. All of the
errors are ACPI related. If I look at Dev mgr - dev by connection - ACPI-
PCI - there is a lot of nvidia stuff listed that isn't included in the RC1
update on their site. Worst case, I'll just purge the event log
occasionally to clean it out until I see a "nforce4 for Vista" update on the
Beta page ( if it ever does arrive)

Thanks for the help.

Bobb

 

[Michael Gillen]

Kinda what I figured so win2003 was for SERVER 2003 not Windows Vista . So ASUS is no help - that
was really my issue - how to update " all the onboard stuff" ( strange that I got this mobo at a
Microsoft Vista/AMD show, yet no support for Vista listed by ASUS)

ASUS will likely overtly support Vista sometime after the official release.