Tom
02-02-2007, 04:07
I've spoke about this in the drivers thread, but I'm hoping a seperate thread outlining my root issue may raise some ideas.
I've got an Abit NF7-S v2.0 that Vista cannot find NIC or SoundStorm (on-board sound) drivers for. As you may (or may not) know, Nvidia have officially dropped support for the chipset. So they're no help. /starts petition. ;)
Though back in the beta days, I heard of mixed response with the NF2 chipset; some said things worked, others said it was broken. I tried anyway, as there's very little that I can find on Google.
Is there any beta-bod out there with an Nforce 2 chipset, whom has had more luck?
I'd like the fully test the operating system out -- everything runs quite smoothly, and it would be a shame to have to ditch it because of a silly thing like a NIC/Sound driver.
EDIT: I've since realised Vista was trying to install my Netgear FA311, and that my Nvidia on-board NIC was disabled. I enabled the Nvidia NIC, and Vista installed it perfectly (that's what you get for installing OS's at 3am :p)
I've since connected to Windows Update and it updated almost all my Nvidia drivers, so a restart and a BSOD later -- I now have a working NIC, and working sound!
Some things don't work on the sound, like the mic, but at least I can listen to some tunes now..
The Netgear FA311 still doesn't work.
Furthermore, I've now noticed that Vista won't boot unless the bootable DVD attempts to boot first. Eg. If I try to boot with nothing in the optical drive, I receive the message 'BOOTMGR not found, press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to restart'.
The only way I can boot, is to have the Vista DVD in the drive, wait for it to ask 'Press any key to boot from CD/DVD...' and let it run out. It then boots from the S-ATA controller and we're into Vista.
Really, really bemused as to how Vista has supposedly not installed a Bootloader. :confused:
I've got an Abit NF7-S v2.0 that Vista cannot find NIC or SoundStorm (on-board sound) drivers for. As you may (or may not) know, Nvidia have officially dropped support for the chipset. So they're no help. /starts petition. ;)
Though back in the beta days, I heard of mixed response with the NF2 chipset; some said things worked, others said it was broken. I tried anyway, as there's very little that I can find on Google.
Is there any beta-bod out there with an Nforce 2 chipset, whom has had more luck?
I'd like the fully test the operating system out -- everything runs quite smoothly, and it would be a shame to have to ditch it because of a silly thing like a NIC/Sound driver.
EDIT: I've since realised Vista was trying to install my Netgear FA311, and that my Nvidia on-board NIC was disabled. I enabled the Nvidia NIC, and Vista installed it perfectly (that's what you get for installing OS's at 3am :p)
I've since connected to Windows Update and it updated almost all my Nvidia drivers, so a restart and a BSOD later -- I now have a working NIC, and working sound!
Some things don't work on the sound, like the mic, but at least I can listen to some tunes now..
The Netgear FA311 still doesn't work.
Furthermore, I've now noticed that Vista won't boot unless the bootable DVD attempts to boot first. Eg. If I try to boot with nothing in the optical drive, I receive the message 'BOOTMGR not found, press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to restart'.
The only way I can boot, is to have the Vista DVD in the drive, wait for it to ask 'Press any key to boot from CD/DVD...' and let it run out. It then boots from the S-ATA controller and we're into Vista.
Really, really bemused as to how Vista has supposedly not installed a Bootloader. :confused: