What are nvidia chipset drivers?

thevet · 26 Mar 2009 at 16:40

Hi there guys...quick question..when i uninstall a gpu driver using drivercleaner/drivesweeper do i need to uninstall the nvidia chipset drivers as well as the physx and the display drivers?
I noticed that i have nvidia chipset drivers in my registry,via drivesweeper,do i delete them when uninstalling old gpu driver?

Thankyou

reflux · 26 Mar 2009 at 16:42

Nvidia chipset drivers are for motherboards that use Nvidia chipsets - e.g. nForce 650, 580, 750, 780, 790 etc. Since you don't have an Nvidia motherboard, there is no need to remove something that isn't there

Rapido! · 26 Mar 2009 at 16:46

On the x58 platform, those drivers are the mechanism through which SLI is enabled.

Leave them be.

reflux · 26 Mar 2009 at 16:50

Hmmm, you might have a point there but I was of the opinion that SLi was done through the video drivers and motherboard BIOS, not needing specific chipset drivers?

Mr Kingston · 26 Mar 2009 at 16:53

no for sli mobos on the x58 platform they have a nforce 200 chip if im not mistaken hence why u need the drivers

thevet · 26 Mar 2009 at 17:05

do i delete them or leave them?

Mr Kingston · 26 Mar 2009 at 17:07

leave them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

reflux · 26 Mar 2009 at 17:10

Mr Kingston said:
no for sli mobos on the x58 platform they have a nforce 200 chip if im not mistaken hence why u need the drivers

Mine doesn't and mine does dual and tri SLi.

According to this the chip was going to be required but Nvidia did an about-turn on it.

Mr Kingston · 26 Mar 2009 at 17:14

well i was led to believe it was needed, im not on i7 yet so i wouldnt no but i would leave them

moltenlava · 26 Mar 2009 at 17:26

X58 SLI

Nvidia was going to force motherboard manufacturers into using the nForce 200 bridge chip but many didnt want to use the chip so were not going to bother with SLI on the X58 platform, wasnt that big a deal since ATI had some great HD 4000 series cards so Nvidia decided to do the sensible thing and allow SLI without the nForce 200 chip.

In order to allow SLI to work on an X58 motherboard without the nForce 200 chip you need a special "cookie" for the BIOS which you buy from Nvidia, when you try and install nvidia graphics drivers it looks for this cookie and if its not there it wont enable the SLI function, you could however run them as seperate cards.

To date only a couple of manufactures bothered going the hardware SLI for what Nvidia calls "True 3 way SLI" (x16 x16 x16 with the nForce 200 chip instead of x16 x8 x8 on an X58 with just the BIOS cookie), those are ASUS and now EVGA. ASUS has the Asus P6T6 WS Revolution and EVGA the X58 Classified. ASUS has a new motherboard in the works, the P6T7, pretty much the same as the Revolution but it has 2 nForce 200 chips.

When removing graphics drivers on the X58 platform you need to

1. Uninstall Nvidia PhysX drivers in Windows Uninstall a Program
2. Uninstall Nvidia Graphics Drivers in Windows Uninstall a Program
3. restart into Windows Safe Mode
4. Use your Driver Cleaner to remove Nvidia/Nvidia Forceware drivers (this is for the graphics driver residue, i have DriverCleaner.NET and its just "Nvidia" some call it "Nvidia Forceware") and Nvidia PhysX.
5 restart and install new drivers.

hope this helps.

thevet · 26 Mar 2009 at 17:30

for some reason my 3d vantage score has dropped from 24292 to 21000is on all drivers...even when i use my old driver that scored 24292(181.22) i still get 21000ish...i have been unistalling/installing drivers since 12:00 pm today and im totally fed up as i dont know what the problem is :mad:

i just tried driver 185.26 and i got vantage score of 20781...wtf???
i also get the same score with HT on and off

i download this and installed it last night,do you think it could have affected my vantage score?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=0cf368e5-5ce1-4032-a207-c693d210f616