Confirmed with Asus - Can't load Vista x64 to SATA drive ( nForce 4 Driver)

[BobS]

Just to follow-up on this so others will know that Asus tech support
confirmed that you *cannot* load Vista 64 bit version on to a SATA drive
that uses the nForce 4 (for AMD) drivers. There's plenty of other problems
too but since they're a bit swamped with calls, I didn't have much time with
them. They did say, the new drivers most likely will show up on the Nvidia
site first.

Bob S.

 

[KYHighlander]

what issue did it have when installing on this system? I have nForce4 AMD
with a SATA drive and it installed but the video jumps around.

 

[BobS]

Are you saying you have Vista 64 bit version loaded on to a SATA drive? If
so, then it must be connected to the eSATA drive (external) which is
controlled by the Sil 3132 SATA controller and not the nForce SATA
controller.

I have the 32 bit version of Vista on an internal SATA drive (nForce 4
driver) and that works fine and I have the 64 bit version on an EIDE drive
and that's fine too - but I cannot load the 64 bit version to an internal
SATA drive that uses the nForce 4 drivers.

Asus confirmed it won't run but if you have 64 bit Vista on an internal SATA
drive, I'd like to know what difference we have?

BobS

 

[KYHighlander]

I'm not using a asus mb, I have a Gateway, but it uses Nforce. The tech guys
sent me to Nvidia to get new Nforce drivers as they think that is what is
making my video jitter.

I have a GT 5032, all the memory controllers and such in the device manager
are nforce. can't find the SATA controller in there, which may be why it is
working, I may not have updated SATA driver on my system. It works fine
under xp and will boot under vista but I have jittery video.