Which driver?

Fraggr · 4 Jun 2007 at 17:50

Hi all.

I'm about to reinstall Windows as it's getting really clogged up and stuff, and I was wondering which drivers I would need: my motherboard is a MSI K8N SLI-Platinum nForce 4 I think. It's been a while since I bought it, so that is to the best of my memory.

Now, I've installed Windows a few times since I've bought this PC, but nVidia seems to have changed their drivers page for this stuff. I know which graphics drivers, sound, etc I need.

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

There's a link to the drivers page. Which one should I choose for my motherboard? Using Windows XP 32 SP2.

MarcLister · 4 Jun 2007 at 18:01

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/nforce_nf4_win2k_6.86_uk.html

I reckon. I can't see an SLI AMD combo so I think that should be OK.

Fraggr · 4 Jun 2007 at 18:04

Thanks. That's probably the one I've got at the moment.

MarcLister · 4 Jun 2007 at 18:07

No probs. Are you going to nLite? If you do, you could test the iso in a virtual machine such as MS' Virtual PC 2007 or Virtual Box. These just run everything in a "virtual" sense. You could then install the drivers I've said and see how that all works out "virtually".

Even if you don't nLite, get ImgBurn or something and make an iso image of your XP cd and test that. This way you can test the drivers before you've actually formatted and re-installed. You don't want to find out you've got the wrong drivers at that point in time, trust me.

Ronaldo · 4 Jun 2007 at 18:11

MarcLister said:
No probs. Are you going to nLite? If you do, you could test the iso in a virtual machine such as MS' Virtual PC 2007 or Virtual Box. These just run everything in a "virtual" sense. You could then install the drivers I've said and see how that all works out "virtually".

Even if you don't nLite, get ImgBurn or something and make an iso image of your XP cd and test that. This way you can test the drivers before you've actually formatted and re-installed. You don't want to find out you've got the wrong drivers at that point in time, trust me.

hi, sorry to hijack but you cannot install chipset drivers on virtual machines because the hardware are standard virtual ones or is there a way?

MarcLister · 4 Jun 2007 at 18:12

Ronaldo said:
hi, sorry to hijack but you cannot install chipset drivers on virtual machines because the hardware are standard virtual ones or is there a way?

Hmm dunno actually. I didn't have to with mine but then I had integrated drivers into nLite so I kind of bypassed that issue.

Thanks for raising it though.

BUT DON'T HIJACK AGAIN!!

Fraggr · 4 Jun 2007 at 21:08

Nah, no need for all of that. I just installed them, it all worked out. Besides, if it went wrong, I could have just reinstalled, not a problem.