What are the best IDE drivers for the A7N8X dlx

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Header says it all, Choices are:
CD that came with the board.
nvidia drivers.
or are there some MS ones or newer Asus ones?
What is best?
Thanks,
Bitsbucket
 
Header says it all, Choices are:
CD that came with the board.
nvidia drivers.
or are there some MS ones or newer Asus ones?
What is best?
Thanks,
Bitsbucket
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The latest driver package at the ASUS site is working perfect on both
my boards. That's the first time for this board.
 
Bitsbucket said:
Header says it all, Choices are:
CD that came with the board.
nvidia drivers.
or are there some MS ones or newer Asus ones?
What is best?
Thanks,
Bitsbucket
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Assuming you're running either Win2K or XP - I've found the SW IDE 2 ones
from 3.13 are the best for me, otherwise use the standard MS ones, there
really isn't that much to choose between them. Some people have found that
burning CDs among other tasks is problematic with the SW IDE drivers.

Ben
 
Ben,
When you say "SW" what is that in reference to? Yes I am running XP pro and
I assumed the drivers off the CD were the ones to run, however I have found
them to be not what I would expect. I have no definative benchmarks to back
this up it's just that I feel disk access is slow and I'm getting BSODs.
But then again since I have stopped running MBM5 I have not had any BSODs.
All of the BSODs are referenced to a driver prob. and I can't figure out
what driver is causing it, but with the disk access acting like it does, I
though it may be a start.
Have you heard of anyone else getting BSODs form running MBM5?
Thanks
John
 
Bitsbucket said:
Ben,
When you say "SW" what is that in reference to?
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The nVidia nForce platform drivers v2.41 had SW IDE drivers, then they got
removed 'cos they caused problems, no they're back in 3.13, they're
basically just nVidias IDE Drivers. When you install the 3.13s it asks you
if you want to use the SW IDE drivers of the MS ones.
Yes I am running XP pro
and I assumed the drivers off the CD were the ones to run
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They're pretty old now, the nForce platform drivers are the ones to install.
however I have
found them to be not what I would expect. I have no definative benchmarks
to back this up it's just that I feel disk access is slow and I'm getting
BSODs. But then again since I have stopped running MBM5 I have not had
any BSODs. All of the BSODs are referenced to a driver prob. and I can't
figure out what driver is causing it, but with the disk access acting
like it does, I though it may be a start.
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HDTach output would probably give us enough info to spot any serious
problems.
Have you heard of anyone else getting BSODs form running MBM5?
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There was a thread about MBM5 causing the mouse to go jerky.

Ben
 
Glad to know it's not just me. I checked, and according to MBM5 my diode
temps run about 10C hotter than the socket, so I am now using probe and just
adding 10C to it to get the diode temp. Crude but effective eonough for my
purpose.
Bitsbucket.
 
Bitsbucket said:
Glad to know it's not just me. I checked, and according to MBM5 my diode
temps run about 10C hotter than the socket, so I am now using probe and
just adding 10C to it to get the diode temp. Crude but effective eonough
for my purpose.
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The difference is not a constant, diode is affected very quickly by changes
in load, socket is affected very slowly.

Ben
 
Ben,
I noticed that, jumps up rather quickly! but according to MBM5 it never ran
over 51C running 100% CPU. So I'll have to live with it because MBM5 gives
me BSODs.I wish it didn't, I like having MBM5, but not the BSODs that come
with it. If I could figure out why, (I suspect the IDE drivers or my video
drivers are the culprit, and I am going to update them, then I may be able
to run it) I'd load it all the time, nice little utility to have.......oh
well.
Bitsbucket.
 
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