Topic: To All With Nforce4 Chipset, Read This! (Read 242 times)

kezor · « **Reply #15 on:** May 18, 2006, 11:29:00 AM »

QUOTE(postaldude25 @ May 18 2006, 11:45 AM)

hi there one question.

Does it work to us a DFI Ultra lanparty motherbord?

is all the things i have to do is to uninstal the nf4 driver and intall MS original and it should work to do stuff with the DVD drive.

i have read somwhere that it only works with a few sata motherbords so that is why i am asking

yes my mobo works, do you have 8 sata ports in there
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813136157

postaldude25 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 18, 2006, 11:52:00 AM »

no i have only 4

i have this motherbord http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813136152

so du you think it will work with this one?

showst0pper · « **Reply #17 on:** May 18, 2006, 12:44:00 PM »

dfi lanparty board work just fine but there is a few steps

Cappadonna · « **Reply #18 on:** May 18, 2006, 04:42:00 PM »

Ok guys, this is exactly how I did this and now I am in Business

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Go to Start/Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs and select Nvidia drivers.

Put a check in the IDE Drivers box only. It will ask to reboot but select NO for now.

Go to My Computer/C:/Nvidia and delete the folder that contains the nforce chipset drivers.

Now when you restart, XP has no choice but to install generic drivers.

Hope that helps.

Now for those having problems flashing. No you do not have to wait for the drive to start flashing. It is almost instantaneous after you select the right port. As far as that goes, I think that the NF4 patched mtkflash doesn't recognize the SATA ports correctly. Anyway, on my set up I have the 360 on SATA 1 and HDD on SATA 4. Therefore I have to choose #3 for the port.

I hope this helps some of you guys out.

jymboche · « **Reply #19 on:** May 18, 2006, 06:47:00 PM »

What if you dont have an nf4 chipset, but your computer still freezes. Are there any links/guides for solving the problem?
Cause as far as i know, i dont have an nf4 chipset, but i did manage to flash my drive from dos. yet it still freezes when i load windows.
i have the drive hooked directly to my motherboard (it has two sata connections, one of which is occupied by a sata HD)

jymboche · « **Reply #20 on:** May 18, 2006, 09:46:00 PM »

HAHA nm... im an idiot.... all works well now

cliffy88 · « **Reply #21 on:** May 18, 2006, 10:05:00 PM »

my computer still freezes! http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813188002
Thats my mb and I have it plugged into my bottom Sata. I just installed windows on a seperate hard drive, and I unplug my raid hard drives when I want to try this. I still have nvidia drivers in the sata colum under device manager. Any ideas? Also, I'm able to flash the firmware, it just freezes when I try to start up my computer.

cliffy88 · « **Reply #22 on:** May 18, 2006, 11:05:00 PM »

I'm not attempting to install windows from my xbox 360 drive. Don't know if this will work...or make a difference...but I'm out of ideas!

cliffy88 · « **Reply #23 on:** May 18, 2006, 11:54:00 PM »

Sorry to make three posts in a role, but it actually worked. For those of you who still can't get this to work...

I have a raid setup so to fix that I just unpluged both of the power cables going to the hard drives, leaving the IDE cables still attached(it's a pain to take those in and out a lot.)

I then found a 40 gig hard drive that I wasn't using. I installed a fresh copy of xp, but the drive still wouldn't show up...I put the xp disk inside of my xbox 360 drive and started up the install process. Once all the stuff loads and it asks you if you want to install xp or repair, hit enter to install xp. Then it will search for pervious installed copies of xp. Once it found the one I had installed earlier then I hit r for repiar. Once it was done no lag and the drive is now working under windows.

I guess you could just from the beginning use the 360 drive to install windows...But this is what I had to do and I hope it helps someone

Please forgive the typos...it's alomst 2 in the morning and I'm spent! Just ask me if you don't understand something I said...I'll keep an eye on this topic.

StrYker · « **Reply #24 on:** May 19, 2006, 08:02:00 AM »

QUOTE(Cappadonna @ May 18 2006, 10:49 PM)

Ok guys, this is exactly how I did this and now I am in Business

.

Go to Start/Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs and select Nvidia drivers.

Put a check in the IDE Drivers box only. It will ask to reboot but select NO for now.

Go to My Computer/C:/Nvidia and delete the folder that contains the nforce chipset drivers.

Now when you restart, XP has no choice but to install generic drivers.

Hope that helps.

Now for those having problems flashing. No you do not have to wait for the drive to start flashing. It is almost instantaneous after you select the right port. As far as that goes, I think that the NF4 patched mtkflash doesn't recognize the SATA ports correctly. Anyway, on my set up I have the 360 on SATA 1 and HDD on SATA 4. Therefore I have to choose #3 for the port.

I hope this helps some of you guys out.

ok that seems fine. now. even after installing generic drivers for SATA, do I still use NF4 patched mtkfalsh or just use regular version???

unspoiledpuma · « **Reply #25 on:** May 19, 2006, 08:36:00 AM »

Ive found the problem for the VIA chipset that frooze on windows bootup it's the" VIA scsi/raid controller driver" that make windows hang when i disabled it windows bootup but dont detect the drive BUT i forgot to active sata bus controller in my bios. i will test this later.

thavarin · « **Reply #26 on:** June 16, 2006, 05:50:00 PM »

QUOTE(showst0pper @ May 18 2006, 07:51 PM)

dfi lanparty board work just fine but there is a few steps

such as? I used the mtkflash-nf4 and it locks on after selecting the correct drive. What am I doing wrong, I read almost every tutorial and everything on here, but I have had no luck. So the other method of deleting the sata chipset drivers out of the nvidia folder works? I have the DFI Lantparty Ultra-D. Can anyone help or any tips?

lobango · « **Reply #27 on:** June 16, 2006, 06:23:00 PM »

weird, i have ecs c19-a (nforce 4 sli) and i dont even have the ide drivers installed, yet xp doesn't pick up my drive.

is this for slax? slax never worked for me anyway but i see it in bios

mf300uk · « **Reply #28 on:** June 17, 2006, 03:34:00 PM »

QUOTE(Icecreamz @ May 18 2006, 03:40 PM)

Hi all

I have a bug when i try to dump my firm.

Motherboard is Asus A8N-SLI Prenium (NF4 chipset)

Drive is Samsung TS-H943 firm 25ms (new firm)

The drive is recognize on bios and mktflash.

IPB Image

The mktflash detect but not reply after , i wait 10 min but do nothing

We can see on first pict TS-943 is detected by the bios on first SATA Master but on mktflash is detected on third fourth device...

I go to system info to see SATA NF4 and i edit the patched version of mtkflashNF4 with winhex for see if value VID> < DID> <primary port addr> <,secondary port addr> <text descriptor of VID & DID> correspond to my motherboard but all it's ok.

I try to disconnect all my drive; disable sata channel 1and2 or3 and4; change TS-H943 to other sata port 1,2,3,4; swap with maxtor sata dd.

I disable raid controller.

I try method with livecd slax but not work.
Could try to help me plz.

Thx

Sorry for my bad english,i try to improve myself

i had similar problem this may help (mtkflash r /m orig.bin) would not work for me (mtkflash r backup.bin) worked fine the main issue was the /m command for me removed and it worked

n99wby · « **Reply #29 on:** June 22, 2006, 06:59:00 AM »

Got an Nforce 4 Asus A8n SLI Deluxe Mobo..

I removed the Nvidia drivers and rebooted now my :G drive is not recognised in BIOS at all whats the crack???

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