The woes of an nForce2 chipset

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I bought my A7n8x deluxe because it was the all in one solution. Onboard Dual LAN, onboard RAID (in the form of SATA), onboard audio,onboard Firewire.

 

 

Well so far after having to deal with audio problems (related to drivers from nVidia), onboard firewire problems (related for some reason to creative drivers or nVidia firewire). I do not know if i will buy an nForce board again. So far in order to get my Nomad Jukebox 3 working up to par i have had to put in a 3rd party firewire card. In order to get my sound problems fixed i have had to put my old soundcard back in. So the 2 main things that were the selling point of this board have no fallen by the wayside. Nothing new has been heard of from nVidia in over a month on when new nForce drivers will be out that will fix these problems. Yet they announce the nForce 3 pro, when it seems the nForce2 isnt even ready for primetime yet.

 

We see nVidia constantly release drivers for their video cards, what is keeping them from releasing drivers that will solve these problems beta or not.

 

 

I just thought i would like to share these thoughts with people thinking about getting a nForce2 chipset.

[Admiral LSD 0]

If you think it's bad under Windows, wait until you see the shocking nature of the Linux drivers. Until I started hanging around on the nForcersHQ forums (I suggest you take your question there as well, you'll find plenty of people who can help) and got a huge reality check on it, I though nVidias drivers were "teh win!!11" myself.

[ViolentGreen 0]

Go to www.nforcershq.com and check out the forum. There are pleanty of solutions for the audio problem. The firewire works great with my ipod.

 

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I bought my A7n8x deluxe because it was the all in one solution. Onboard Dual LAN, onboard RAID (in the form of SATA), onboard audio,onboard Firewire.

 

 

Well so far after having to deal with audio problems (related to drivers from nVidia), onboard firewire problems (related for some reason to creative drivers or nVidia firewire). I do not know if i will buy an nForce board again. So far in order to get my Nomad Jukebox 3 working up to par i have had to put in a 3rd party firewire card. In order to get my sound problems fixed i have had to put my old soundcard back in. So the 2 main things that were the selling point of this board have no fallen by the wayside. Nothing new has been heard of from nVidia in over a month on when new nForce drivers will be out that will fix these problems. Yet they announce the nForce 3 pro, when it seems the nForce2 isnt even ready for primetime yet.

 

We see nVidia constantly release drivers for their video cards, what is keeping them from releasing drivers that will solve these problems beta or not.

 

 

I just thought i would like to share these thoughts with people thinking about getting a nForce2 chipset.

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ive been over there and tried all the solutions. Nothing has worked. Get the same stupid sound cracking/corruption problem no matter what.

 

The 1394 issue is directly related to ONLY creative jukeboxes and nForce firewire. Kinda ghey really. The jukebox is a nice product too, its a shame i had to buy a seperate firewire card to get it to work right.

[Admiral LSD 0]

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ive been over there and tried all the solutions. Nothing has worked. Get the same stupid sound cracking/corruption problem no matter what.

Are you using the drivers from the nVidia site or the ones from Windows Update? The latter are supposedly better. If they don't show up in the Driver Updates section of Windows Update you may have to go digging in the Windows Update Catalog which you have to add manually to Windows Update:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/windows_update_catalog.htm

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I tried the ones from windows update last time and i got a BSOD when i tried to install em. I will try again later.

 

Yay these ones installed fine. This plus lowering the "original Sound Output" level in the sound enviornment manager should stop my southbridge from getting too hot and causing the crackling.

 

 

Other question: Anyplace i can get a better heatsink for my Southbridge than the one that is on there now. The one that comes with it is kinda small and not even that thick, thus the reason a lot of people are having the sound crackling issue.