Nvidia cuts Vista support for Nforce 2 chipset

jmke · 17th November 2006, 11:51

Well Nvidia decided to say the final good bye to this chipset as it doesn't want to develop the Vista drivers for it.

18th November 2006, 12:29

Thats not true.
I've tried RC1 on a nForce2 motherboard, it worked fine!
only install on a sata harddisc won't work.
when i tried installing it on an IDE disc, all worked perfectly.
When i tried to install the sata disc later on, on a pci card, it also worked.

jmke · 18th November 2006, 12:46

but SATA ports on the mobo don't work; what good is that

18th November 2006, 20:18

I dont care, older sata 1 ports suck anyway :P

i have a 4 Port S-ATAII pci card.
thats way better ^^

28th February 2007, 19:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by un1ty

I dont care, older sata 1 ports suck anyway :P

i have a 4 Port S-ATAII pci card.
thats way better ^^

Great, so your new SATAII PCI card is capable of doing 300 MB/s, but is limited by the 133MB/s PCI interface. What's your point?

I really wish nVidia would keep supporting nForce 2 with official drivers. They will alienate a lot of loyal customers with this bad move, myself included...

28th February 2007, 22:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by xdarque

Great, so your new SATAII PCI card is capable of doing 300 MB/s, but is limited by the 133MB/s PCI interface. What's your point?

I really wish nVidia would keep supporting nForce 2 with official drivers. They will alienate a lot of loyal customers with this bad move, myself included...

from the nv forum:

Quote:

Microsoft Removed Dsound Hardware FOR NO REASON other then making the RIAA (Rigid Institute of Anal Retentive bums)... happy....

Anyway, I've tried vista and it didn't realy posed such a problem. Some XP drivers can still be used (by extracting the installer and manualy selecting the driver via system management), for sound drivers (becuase the XP drivers crash Vista in such way it can't even make a BSOD ... just a blank blue screen) you can use the Realtek drivers. SATA from SiliconImage can be used (for my motherboard).
So don't make a too big fuss out of it.

17th November 2006, 11:51	#1
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18th November 2006, 12:46	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	but SATA ports on the mobo don't work; what good is that __________________

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18th November 2006, 12:29	#2
un1ty Posts: n/a	Thats not true. I've tried RC1 on a nForce2 motherboard, it worked fine! only install on a sata harddisc won't work. when i tried installing it on an IDE disc, all worked perfectly. When i tried to install the sata disc later on, on a pci card, it also worked.

18th November 2006, 20:18	#4
un1ty Posts: n/a	I dont care, older sata 1 ports suck anyway :P i have a 4 Port S-ATAII pci card. thats way better ^^