NF&-S Ver 2. and Windows XP

External Since: Apr 17, 2004 Posts: 3

To all Wizards

Main Issue: nForce2 SPP chipset drivers not recognized by Windows XP
Home Edition

Following is my system configuration:

NF7-S V2 motherboard
Athlon XP 2800 processor, 333 front bus, not overclocked
Bios number 23 (have used 20 and 21 with same results)
Current nForce driver version 3.13, have used nforce driver that came
with mb disk, same results
Windows XP Home Edition, all updates installed. Windows was installed
from a clean setup.
ATA serial raid version 4.2.47, set up as a raid 0
Hard drives, Seagate Barracuda 7200 80 gig.
Memory, two Siemens 512 Meg DDR-SDRAM PC-3200, running at 400 MHZ. Have
tried 333 MHZ, and other ram sticks with same result.
Memory modules set up in slots 2 and 3, upon boot "Dual DDR" message
displayed.
Radeon 9600XT AGP video card, latest drivers.
On board audio and LAN enabled, IEEE disabled.

Problem:

My Computer - System - Hardware - Device Manager- System Devices

Basic display for computer hardware shows no conflicts, disabled
devices, or other Windows warning icons.

The following listed items have "No Drivers installed for this device"
displayed when they are first selected in the "General" display box for each
device:
When I advance to the "Drivers Tab" display box, Windows lists nVida
drivers as being installed. All driver versions dates are 4/9/2003.

nVidia nForce2 PCI System Management
nVidia nForce2 Memory Controller (4 of these are listed)
nVidia nForce 2 Ultra 400 Memory Controller

When clicking on all other nForce devices, such as AGP devices, Windows
"General" display box says that drivers have been installed.

Troubleshooting efforts to date:

Two Clean installs of Windows. All Windows updates are installed. Have
tried three different BIOS versions. Have tried two different nForce
unified driver versions. I have uninstalled the nForce drivers via the
Control Panel Remove Programs tab before installing new unified drivers. I
have uninstalled each of the above items utilizing the Device manager, then
rebooted the computer and let the system find the new device and let Windows
install the driver. I have used the option in the BIOS of "Force Update
ESCD".

Any suggestions on this problem are greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance

Dave

External Since: Jan 04, 2004 Posts: 162

me wrote:
> To all Wizards
>
> Main Issue: nForce2 SPP chipset drivers not recognized by Windows
> XP Home Edition
>
> Following is my system configuration:
>
> NF7-S V2 motherboard
> Athlon XP 2800 processor, 333 front bus, not overclocked
> Bios number 23 (have used 20 and 21 with same results)
> Current nForce driver version 3.13, have used nforce driver that
> came with mb disk, same results
> Windows XP Home Edition, all updates installed. Windows was
> installed from a clean setup.
> ATA serial raid version 4.2.47, set up as a raid 0
> Hard drives, Seagate Barracuda 7200 80 gig.
> Memory, two Siemens 512 Meg DDR-SDRAM PC-3200, running at 400
> MHZ. Have tried 333 MHZ, and other ram sticks with same
> result. Memory modules set up in slots 2 and 3, upon boot "Dual
> DDR" message displayed.
> Radeon 9600XT AGP video card, latest drivers.
> On board audio and LAN enabled, IEEE disabled.
>
> Problem:
>
> My Computer - System - Hardware - Device Manager- System Devices
>
> Basic display for computer hardware shows no conflicts, disabled
> devices, or other Windows warning icons.
>
> The following listed items have "No Drivers installed for this
> device" displayed when they are first selected in the "General"
> display box for each device:
> When I advance to the "Drivers Tab" display box, Windows lists
> nVida drivers as being installed. All driver versions dates are
> 4/9/2003.
>
> nVidia nForce2 PCI System Management
> nVidia nForce2 Memory Controller (4 of these are listed)
> nVidia nForce 2 Ultra 400 Memory Controller
>
> When clicking on all other nForce devices, such as AGP devices,
> Windows "General" display box says that drivers have been installed.
>
> Troubleshooting efforts to date:
>
> Two Clean installs of Windows. All Windows updates are
> installed. Have tried three different BIOS versions. Have tried two
> different nForce unified driver versions. I have uninstalled the
> nForce drivers via the Control Panel Remove Programs tab before
> installing new unified drivers. I have uninstalled each of the above
> items utilizing the Device manager, then rebooted the computer and
> let the system find the new device and let Windows install the
> driver. I have used the option in the BIOS of "Force Update ESCD".
>
> Any suggestions on this problem are greatly appreciated. Thanks
> in advance
>
> Dave

That's normal. Same on my XP Home system (NF7-S ver. 2.0). If you look
at the Driver tab, it shows Driver Provider: NVIDIA, date and version,
but Driver Details says "no driver files required or loaded for this
device", emphasis on "not required". As long as the devices are
correctly identified, it appears that's all that is needed.