I installed the last official WHQL drivers from NVIDIA which are v15.27 for Vista, and proceeded to enable the RAID mode for SATA in the BIOS. After I did this I was unable to boot thesystem drive, but I managed to fix this by disabling RAID mode in the BIOS. I am assuming I need to enable RAID mode in the BIOS before I install Windows and install the drivers as well.
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Since you will not be able to get AHCI enabled, I recommend to run the SSD in IDE mode by using the generic MS IDE driver named PCIIDE.SYS. This is the only way to get TRIM working within the SSD.
The Win8 and Win8.1 on-board NVIDIA nForce drivers should work with your system, but you will not be able to install any of my modified driverpacks unless you have disabled the Win8/Win8.1 driver security check.
I used on-board drivers for windows 8.1 and it report errors from controller in event view and it gives me BSOD, that is the reason I installed windows 7, to see if really controller is the isue or the drivers. I will try again with your drivers, and if is not working I will try with windows 8 but maybe next weekend:).Thank you.Mihnea
If you want the best possible performance, I recommend to install the NVIDIA Win7Vista nForce SATARAID driver v9.99.09 WHQL. Please tell me, with which architecture (32/64bit) you are going to install Win8.1, and I will give you the download link.
Have tried numerous NVIDIA drivers including older ones. Deleting the card, new installs vs updated installs. My guess is that the NVIDIA update for 64 bit operation is missing the proper configuration strings. NVIDIA does not seem to care about such a really old product which is understandable -- but the machine is in great shape otherwise... I have a soft spot for these machines and try to keep as many as I can out of the landfill.
Run the below driver. If it installs the ethernet controller, great. If not...This package contains the driver that enables the NVIDIA nForce MCP77MV Chipset in the supported notebook models and operating systems. -40000/sp39535.exe...go to the device manager, and click on the problem ethernet controller device needing the driver.Click on the driver tab. Click on Update Driver.Select the Browse my computer for driver software option, and browse to the driver folder that was created when you ran the file.That folder will be located in C:\SWSetup\sp39535.Make sure the Include Subfolders box is checked, and the driver should install.Then restart the PC.
Download and save, but do not run this graphics driver.This package provides the graphics driver for the NVIDIA nForce MCP77MV Chipset in the supported notebook/laptop models and operating systems. This driver enables graphic display and provides a user interface to access display properties. -45500/sp45230.exeDownload and install this free file utility. The 2nd file at the top of the page is for 64 bit. -zip.org/After you install 7-Zip, right click on the graphics driver you saved.Select 7-Zip from the list of items on the menu.Have 7-Zip Extract to: and let it extract the driver file into its folder name (sp45230).Once that is done, go to the device manager, click to expand the Display adapters device manager category.Click on the Microsoft Basic Display adapter listed there. Click on the driver tab. Click on Update Driver.Select the Browse my computer for driver software option, but this time, at the bottom of that window, select the Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer.Click on Have Disk, and browse to the driver folder 7-Zip created>VistaWin7_64>Display>NVHM (Setup information file), and see if the driver installs that way.If so, restart the PC, and hopefully the graphics will be working just fine.
None of the Pre-Vista Windows Operating Systems do support the S-ATA Controller features RAID ("Redundant Array of Independent Disks") and AHCI ("Advanced Host Controller Interface"). Unless the suitable nForce Sata/PataRAID or AHCI drivers are separately presented by the user, the OS installation fails, because the OS Setup doesn't find the related RAID/AHCI drives and their partitions.
The better alternative is the integration of the needed textmode drivers into a bootable OS CD. Only this way the user can be sure to succeed with the installation of the OS onto an nForce RAID or AHCI system. Nevertheless the developers of the driver integration method had to solve the above specified problem (see point 3). Until 2005 the correct installation of the nForce S-ATA/P-ATA Controllers and drivers needed addtional manual work of the user. They only succeeded after having created special folders and edited some SIF and/or OEM files.
The safest and easiest way to get the problematic nForce textmode drivers properly installed is to integrate them by using a tool like nLite. All actual versions of nLite (Since v1.0 Final) have incorporated a special method, which guarantees the successful OS installation onto any nForce RAID or AHCI system (if the user observes some rules layed down below). The replacement of the correct nForce Controllers and drivers by the "wrong" MS IDE ones will be prevented by the built-in suppression of the MS IDE drivers during the hardware detection part of the OS installation.
The next step is the preparation of the nForce textmode driver for the later integration. The choice of the "best suitable" nForce IDE driver version and subfolder mainly depends on the nForce chipset details, the RAID configuration (SataRAID or PataRAID) and maybe on the nVRaid BIOS version of the destination desktop/laptop.
NVIDIA is offering for all nForce chipsets complete driverpacks with included nForce SataRAID drivers. You will find them, if you go here, choose "nForce" (NF5 and up) or "LEGACY" (NF1-4) as "Product Type" and then choose your special nForce chipset and the OS you are going to install. Unfortunately NVIDIA's official nForce driverpacks are not always the best choice for nForce RAID users. Either they do not work at all (example: NF4 RAID), they are outdated (example: NF2-3 RAID) or they don't provide the best possible performance (valid for nearly all NF chipsets).
Since January 2008 I am offering alternative nForce drivers and driverpacks, which are actual, but maybe better than NVIDIA's official ones (for details you may look here). The used drivers themselves (=SYS files) were developed and released by NVIDIA, but for unknown reasons the manufacturer didn't add the HardwareID's of all supported nForce IDE devices. That is why I customized the associated INF/OEM files to make them compatible with as many nForce chipsets as possible. This modification doesn't touch the driver's function and the loss of Microsoft's digital signature (WHQL) has no impact on the driver's installation (thanks to nLite's built-in textmode driver integration method).
[*]When you get the "Drivers Integration" page > hit "Insert" > choose the "Single driver" option > point to the prepared SATARAID or LEGACY folder with the suitable nForce Sata/PataRAID drivers > hit onto any of the shown INF files (=files with the suffix ".inf").
Important: Users with an NF3-5 chipset RAID system, who had just integrated the SATARAID folder, may need to additionally integrate the content of the SATA_IDE subfolder of the same driverpack as PnP driver to get the OS properly installed.
Actual nForce chipsets (MCP65 and up) do support the advanced S-ATA-Features (z.B. NCQ) of the AHCI standard. Users of such systems usually have the BIOS option to set the nForce S-ATA Controllers to "AHCI Mode" instead of the "IDE Mode" (which doesn't require any separate textmode drivers). If AHCI is enabled, Windows Setup will not detect the S-ATA hdd('s) unless the needed AHCI drivers will be loaded (F6) or have been integrated into the OS CD.
Once the OS is up, you should install the complete "suitable" nForce chipset driver set. The best suitable driverpack is that one, which contains the same version of nForce IDE drivers as the integrated ones (v6.99, v9.99.09 or 11.1.0.33, if you had followed my advices).
This guide contains a lot of links to drivers, which have been modified by me to make them usable for nForce chipset users. As you certainly understand, I cannot overtake any warranty for the function and the quality of the drivers. You may use them nevertheless, but at own risk.
The easiest way to get the Raidtool installed is by running the SETUP.EXE of the associated nForce chipset driver package, but by doing this all nForce IDE drivers of the package will be installed too (and maybe replace the better and currently working ones).
You are right - it seems to be confusing, but this exactly is the trick of the method I described here in this thread. The [OemInfFiles] method enforces the installation of the needed, but still not WHQL-certified driver NVATABUS.SYS and prevents, that Windows XP installs the wrong MS Standard-IDE-Controller driver.
When you have a SATA RAID system, you have to integrate the files of the subfolder SATARAID as TEXTMODE driver by nLite. (When you have a PATA RAID system, you have to take the files from the subfolder PATARAID.)
Nevertheless you have to copy the file nvatabus.inf from the subfolder PATARAID into the fresh created subfolder OEMDIR. This file is not a driver, but it is needed to give MS informations how to install the driver NVATABUS.SYS. When you look into the subfolder SATARAID, you can find the needed driver NVATABUS.SYS, but no information file for this driver (NVATABUS.INF). That is the reason, why you have to take the one from the PATARAID subfolder.
2. Device Manager shows under Other Devices that the coprocessor driver is missing. When I try to update driver Windows is unable to find one. I don't know what the device is and can't find a driver for it. 2ff7e9595c
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