Quick help in middle of reinstall

AnastieByte

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Hi in the middle of reinstall after new mobo but in device manager i have under other devices - "Other PCI Bridge device, PCI memory controller and SM bus controller showing as if i need to install drivers. Prob is I assume these are on the mobo CD but I dont have it. What can i do?
Thanks
 
AnastieByte said:
Hi in the middle of reinstall after new mobo but in device manager i have under other devices - "Other PCI Bridge device, PCI memory controller and SM bus controller showing as if i need to install drivers. Prob is I assume these are on the mobo CD but I dont have it. What can i do?
Thanks
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Whats the make/model of the board?
 
Thanks

The nforce 4 drivers from the nvidia site sorted it thanks. Do you still recommend I go to the AMD site and get a CPU driver as all appears well?
 
Up to you the cpu driver allows you to use cool'n'quiet (c'n'q). If you install the driver and enable c'n'q in the bios (generally under power management) and set power management in windows(under power options control pannel)to minimal the system to automatically adjust the CPU speed, voltage and power combination to suit what your doing.

For example if your browsing the web you don't need all the power of your cpu so c'n'q will set your cpu to 1Ghz and your cpu fan will run quiet, however if you finish web browsing and start a game or something more cpu intensive c'n'q will up your cpu to full speed and your cpu fan will jump to full speed to cool your chip down.

If you use it download the AMD Power Monitor from amd.com it will show you what speed your cpu is running at with c'n'q. If you ever want to turn cnq off just change the power management scheme in windows from minimal back to home/office desk.

Hope this helps

Tumbler
 
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Thanks Tumbler. One other thing when I downloaded the drivers for the chipset it asked if i wanted to install Nvidia IDE SWE driver. I said no was that the right thing to do? As you see from my sig I have a Raptor Sata HDD.

Also is this the CPU driver you meant?
AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (exe) 1.2.2.2
 
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AnastieByte said:
Thanks Tumbler. One other thing when I downloaded the drivers for the chipset it asked if i wanted to install Nvidia IDE SWE driver. I said no was that the right thing to do? As you see from my sig I have a Raptor Sata HDD.

Also is this the CPU driver you meant?
AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (exe) 1.2.2.2
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Don't worry about the nvidia IDE driver afaik their not really that important and they have a habbit of causing bad system performance, while I mention bad system performance if you installed the nvidia firewall remove that also, causes nothing but grief.

That's the correct amd driver :)
 
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