Driver Update From Hell

[Kastuvas]

There is no other way to describe it. You probably know that the new nVidia nForce drivers came out. What a load of greave that
turned out to be

As you do I have uninstalled the old one and installed the new ones. Everything was fine until I noticed that the new NVmixer
doesn’t have a bloody button to enable centre channel. Only 4 speakers were playing when listening to mp3's. So I thought
I will be clever and use the new wonderful nVidia's uninstaller utility where you can select parts of the driver you want to uninstall.
I though I will just uninstall the new sound driver and install the old one as it had an option to enable centre channel.

F*** how wrong I was, after uninstalling the damn thing, windows asked to restart as it does. But as it turned out to be I won’t be able to restart
Whenever windows starts loading it resets and starts again. Even in safe mode. How bloody stupid is that. Thank F*** I had a back up hard drive with just windows on it. At least I am able to run that and access my primary hard drive. If any of you guys would know how to fix this problem I would be very great full. If not well
What else can I do but just spend a whole day reformatting.

I have found this on nVidia site. And tried it but it doesn't do a thing. Also I have tried coping windows/system32/drivers files from the back up hard drive to my primary one but that as well did jack s***.

Sorry for the language I feel very angry and pissed off that a driver update turned out like this.

Your system is unbootable because you tried to use Add/Remove programs on the nForce 2.42 driver kit

Recovering Windows
1. Copy the “nvatabus.sys” file to a floppy disk. This file is included in the zip file that include these instructions.
2. Boot system to Windows XP installation CD.
3. At the Setup screen, press ”R”.
4. This will bring up the repair console.

Which Windows installation would you like to log onto
<To cancel, press ENTER>?

Hit “1” and <ENTER> or the number that represent your Windows XP installation.

Type the Administrator password:

Type password and hit <ENTER>

Insert the floppy disk with the "nvatabus.sys” file into the floppy drive. At the command prompt, type “copy a:\nvatabus.sys c:\windows\system32\drivers” and hit <ENTER>. Once file has been copied, type “EXIT” and hit <ENTER>. This will reboot your system. Remove floppy from system.

5. When the system restarts, hit “Cancel” when all devices are detected
6. Re-install the nForce 2.03 driver kit.
7. Click “Yes to all” when asked to overwriting old files
8. Reboot when install is complete
9. Upon system restart, right mouse click on My Computer and select Properties
10. Select the “Hardware” tab
11. Click on the “Device Manager” button
12. Expand the section labeled “IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers”
13. Left mouse click on the option labeled “NVIDIA NForce(TM) MCP2 IDE Controller” or “NVIDIA® nForce(TM) IDE Controller” (your system will only have one of the above options) (See option2.16.bmp)
14. Right mouse click and select “Update Driver” (See option2.17.bmp)
15. Select “Install from a list of specific location (Advanced)”
16. Select “Don’t search, I will choose the driver to install”
17. Select the driver “Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller”
18. Reboot.
19. After reboot allow device detection.
20. Reboot again.
Everything should now be working correctly

[cjolley]

Well, I just started shopping for a new MB.
Guess I know what chip set I won't be using.
Hope you get it worked out.
Chuck

[DentyCracker]

Never had that problem with a SiS 74x mobo.

[Kastuvas]

I have posted the same post on the nvnews forum hopefully someone will come up with something till tonigh otherwise its C:\FORMAT


"The old SoundStorm control panel still works as well (for those who don't like the NV Mixer) ... I created a shortcut to sstorm.exe for the "create center channel" check box and the speaker test feature"

If I only done this....

[GNEP]

Might be worth having a look at http://www.nforcershq.com/ as well.

[Kastuvas]

I fixed it now. Instead of reinstalling windows I have repaird the partition.

[The PIT]

I wonder if Nvidea hired some out of work Via programmers for their motherboard drivers???

[Marshmallowman]

Do not unistall nforce drivers, install new ones over the top...its been that way for a while 3.13's put me into a simlar situation.

and the nforcerhq.com forums gnep pointed to are very good for this kind nvidia chaos.

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by The PIT
I wonder if Nvidea hired some out of work Via programmers for their motherboard drivers???

Care to guess why they were out of work?

[Kastuvas]

Thanks Marshmallowman, I have tried again yesterday. I have uninstalled the Nvidia drivers and even used driver cleaner. When I installed it on a clean system it f**** up again i couldn't restart so I had to repair the partition again. Either those drivers are seriously f***** up or I am the unluckiest guy in the world hehe.

I will try now installing them on top of the old ones if it does that again nVidia can go to hell.

[Tomasz]

The 4.24 udp drivers work fine for me on the A7N8X-E. As has been pointed out before, I just installed them on top of the 3.13 drivers.

The new 4.31 audio drivers do support the "create center channel" function. Unfortunately, there is no checkbox in nVmixer. However, you can just change the CreateCenter registry value. Its located somewhere in the CurrentControlSet... just search for GlobalVolume.

[Kastuvas]

Yeah it worked when installing them on top. I have used the sound storm utility to enable the centre channel.

Still that kind of thing shouldn't happen!