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Nvidia withdraws nForce 2.41 / 2.42 Driver

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I think I'll just keep my nforce2 drivers from the Abit driver CD until nvidia gets it together.

Sorry you got burned playing the beta driver game.

I lost all my multipliers under 11x when I flashed the latest beta BIOS. It fixed the temps but caused unpredicted side effects. I'll just wait for the next version.
 
I wasn't burn playing the beta driver game, these were official ! :rolleyes:

Your multiplier problem is easy to fix. I once had it on my old MSI K7T Pro2-A.

Put your CPU to his default speed. Then just reflash with the same BIOS. The multipliers should be back. That how I had fixed it.

You should never flash while using an overclocked CPU... ;)
 
You weren't playing the game but it sounds like they were.

I just got the final nf7d14.exe so I'll reflash with that at stock.

I wasn't highly overclocked when I flashed the first time but was running 166 fsb which isn't really overclocked as these CPUs are just relabeled XP2400 Tbred-B cores.
 
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Well mine seems to suck... I only reach a stable 2GHz (2400+) with 1.725v. 2.1GHz seems to be stable at the same voltage, I'm currently testing it.

The whole don't flash overclocked thing is as much to avoid your problem than the risk of crashing...

The final is out ! Nice ! :D
 
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The release dates are the same however. I don't know if that means they're the same.

Also the beta comes in a nice zip package with seperate files while the regular is just one exe file about half the size of the beta's bin file. I'm not sure how to use the exe. I prefer to flash in basic DOS.

I just tried reflashing the beta at stock 133 and still have no multipliers under 11. Right now I'm at 200/2200/ 1.65v and stable but toasty at +26c over ambient. I betcha I could go to 200/2300 if I wanted to do 1.7v. But I can't do 200/2000.
 
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Sig and BIOS updated. :D

The bios is in a self extracting RAR file, which as better compression than a ZIP, you can uncompress it like a RAR if you want (just open it with winrar).

I my system is dual boot (XP and 98SE), so I always flash from the hard disk in a safe dos prompt.

I'm surprise you still have youre problem. Did you choose the CPU normal speed (by selecting the name, like 1700+, instead of custom) ?

If that still doesn't work, try this:
1- Put youre CPU to default speed like I said.
2- Select force ESCD update
3- Let the ESCD update it self.
4- Wipe the CMOS with the jumper
5- ReFlash

The problem (I think) is that ESCD also record the multiplier (check how it update every time you change youre multiplier).
 
BTW, the nVidia IDE miniport (from 2.42 in my case) made my computer very unstable. I know the miniport was responsible because the hard disk LED stayed lit everytime the computer crashed.

I have removed them, it was quite a pain and I had to do a repair job, but now my computer is stable with 2.03.

I wouldn't be surprise if the rest of the driver was ok... I might retry it with 2.42 WITHOUT the miniport...

If you have problems, follow this guide to remove the driver. Hopefully it will work better for you and you won't need the repair job.

The miniport is only for nForce2 board... We have a MSI K7N420 Pro (very good board) here and it didn't even offer to install it (one less computer to fix).

Oh I nearly forgot, in the 4 days I had the driver, I had the pleasure of having lost cluster, corruption (on opened files with the computer crashed) and most of all 1 cross liked file (I hadn't seen one in nearly 10 year !)
 
I first reset BIOS using the CMOS discharge pin

got into BIOS setup and enabled 'force ESCD update' and saved change

I rebooted and flashed over default non overclocking conditions

shut down and reset BIOS using CMOS discharge pin again as per Abit

rebooted and resetup my BIOS as before.

still no <11x mutipliers :(

not much more to do except wait for 1.5 and live with the limitations or revert back to 1.2

190/2100/1.6v seems to be the sweet spot for now.
 
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