Langis
26th February 2008, 01:37 PM
I have an old self-built machine. The mobo is the ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe w/ nForce 2. I recently got a new HDD, installed WinXP, and everything's good. However, I can't find my old mobo driver disc, and the nForce 2 legacy drivers that nVidea provides cause problems.
If I install them all including the SATA driver (I'm not using any SATA drives, though), the system hangs on boot, and I have to boot to the last good configuration. If I skip the SATA driver and install the rest, I get no sound (I'm using the mobo's onboard sound). I ended up having to uninstall all the nVidia drivers (except ForceWare for my GeForce 6800 GT) and using Windows Update to find a nVidia audio driver for the audio. Which is all well and good... but my benchmark tests have dipped from before, and my old HDD had all the mobo drivers installed. (I use 3DMark03, and yes that's how old the system is. I used to get over 10,000, but now I'm around the 7800 mark.)
Any advice?
If I install them all including the SATA driver (I'm not using any SATA drives, though), the system hangs on boot, and I have to boot to the last good configuration. If I skip the SATA driver and install the rest, I get no sound (I'm using the mobo's onboard sound). I ended up having to uninstall all the nVidia drivers (except ForceWare for my GeForce 6800 GT) and using Windows Update to find a nVidia audio driver for the audio. Which is all well and good... but my benchmark tests have dipped from before, and my old HDD had all the mobo drivers installed. (I use 3DMark03, and yes that's how old the system is. I used to get over 10,000, but now I'm around the 7800 mark.)
Any advice?