[Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers]

"regular" 9.34 package don't work with nForce3 and nForce4 chipsets.

Are you sure about that? With the "regular" 9.34 package the Ethernet driver is suppost to be for NF3/4/5. Others didn't seem to have a problem with the Ethernet driver.

Try it and find it out yourself.

By the way: You won't find the new Ethernet drivers off the "regular" 9.34 package within the Remix packages we talked about. I am sure, that those guys would have taken them, if they really are fully compatible to nForce3 and nForce4 mobos.

In the remix he is using the beta 60.15 Ethernet driver. It says customized though so he obviously changed something in the .ini to support nForce3/4. The Ethernet driver may not work on all nForce boards though.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=70757

Ethernet 60 is contained in this, where i have done my best to ensure compatibility, i can safely say this WON'T work on all controllers, what i can say is.

If you report back to me, your model of mainboard and what chipset you use, i will have a general idea of what these ethernet drivers can work on.

The ethernet controllers so far are working on some NF3 chips. and some NF4 chips, the driver has also been installed on another persons NF2 NRM ethernet controller (the gb version from MSI i believe).

[Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers]

"regular" 9.34 package don't work with nForce3 and nForce4 chipsets.

Are you sure about that? With the "regular" 9.34 package the Ethernet driver is suppost to be for NF3/4/5. Others didn't seem to have a problem with the Ethernet driver.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread...?t=70601&page=3

There are more modded "unified" nForce chipset driver remixes in the net, which are based on the 9.34 driver package.

Look here:

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/meis-nware...ix-vt66280.html

and here:

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/nforce-934...64-vt66306.html

Yeah, those are the same two guys off nvnews.

[Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers]

I looked at the 9.34 Vista pack and it has no Ethernet drivers included and then i looked at the other 9.34 international drivers i had downloaded before and they have no Audio drivers. I'm going to try the 9.34 Unified Remix bundle i linked to before because it has all the drivers packaged together and see if i can't integrate the SATARAID drivers with it.

This was his file structure:

the structure of the ide driver is

Legacy > Contains All standard PATA/ATA and SATA controllers and Nforce raid drivers.

SATA_IDE > contains SATA controller drivers for NF4 intel and NF 430/410 and 5xx controllers

SATARAID > contains the sataraid drivers for the NF4 and NF5 raid controllers

RAIDTOOL> contains the standard raid tool set.

[Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers]

But just out of curosity, I realize you mention this newest chipset driver package is compatible with nForce4 chipsets and some may use it "who always want the newest drivers," but...

What, if any benefits/advantages does this latest package provide to Win XP or is it merely an upgrade path for Vista users that also happens to be compatible with XP?

The 9.34's contain new drivers such as new NVATABUS and NVRAID drivers. New drivers normally mean fixes and improved performance. Its always a good idea to have the latest chipset drivers installed if you're looking for top performance.

[Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers]

From the posts i'm reading its looking like the regular 9.34 drivers dont install properly on pre-nForce 5 chipsets and certain parts like the IDE driver aren't installed.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=70601

This guy here released a new driver remix of the 9.34's that supposedly addresses this issue and he also fixed the folder structure to include the Legacy subfolder.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=70757

[Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers]

I've got a question. Are RAID drivers updated when you install the latest nForce drivers after loading the OS or is the RAID driver you pick at install the only one that is ever used until you reinstall the OS with a newer RAID driver?

Also, what if any difference is there between the 9.34 Vista beta drivers and the regular 9.34 international drivers? I had already downloaded the regular 9.34 nForce driver package to install but i had to go and get the other Vista beta .zip package you linked to for the RAID integration since it has the Legacy folder and i guess thats what i need to use for SATA RAID integration in nLite right? Is there any difference in RAID driver versions used between the two packages? I'm going to install the regular 9.34 nForce drivers once i get Windows XP loaded.

[Integration of NVIDIA's nForce RAID and AHCI drivers]

Why wont beta 5 work with the 6.66 drivers if i do the method you outlined? Beta 5 will work fine with the older 6.53 drivers though wont it? I saw a couple of users mention it worked fine for them.