nforce ethernet question

[Afterdawn]

What are the NAM and PreNRM dirs in the Ethernet dir? Are they needed for the OEM preinstall method?

Also, what method do you prefer... move the contents of all dirs to ONE dir.. or refer to the dirs individually. (In the winnt.sif file)

****.. wrong place --> can somebody move this topic to "device drivers"

[edit] Btw.. what is GART?

[prathapml]

* topic moved

What is GART?

GART is an acronym for Graphics Aperture Relocation Table.

GART is the chipset hardware that the operating system uses to correlate locked pages onto physical memory. AGP devices can use these correlations.

In other words, think of it as the crucial link bridge between your AGP card and the main system memory.

NAM and PreNRM dirs in Ethernet dir, are useless to me. Those folders are:

1. Used for nForce3/4 mobos (which have cool networking capabilities).

2. Need an installer to install manually, (it cannot install through OEMpnpDriversPath method).

So yeah, nForce1 and nForce2 board owners can delete those folders safely.

Also, what method do you prefer... move the contents of all dirs to ONE dir.. or refer to the dirs individually. (In the winnt.sif file)

It depends on the situation...

If you have 15 dirs to list out in winnt.sif, obviously you'd like to simplify things by consolidating all the nForce driver-files in one single folder, all the Via-Hyperion driver-files in one folder, and so on.

If you'd rather want to be able to directly update your nForce drivers when a new version comes out, you'd prefer to leave in the folder-structures it uses. (that way, no need to edit your winnt.sif file again to add/remove directory names)