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11-15-2005, 04:04 PM
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ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe Chipset Driver Update
Everyone,
I have a system with an ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe and i would like to update the nForce drivers. I have downloaded the new drivers but assume you have to uninstall the old ones first. Am I correct in that assumption? If so, I don't know where to uninstall then from. When I look in Control Panel-Add Remove Programs I only see one nVidia driver and I assume that is the video card driver (BFG GForce 7800 GTX), the driver does not provide any details though. Can anyone shed light on this please? You can e-mail me direct at Christopher.Ramirez@uav.com if you want. |
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11-16-2005, 02:11 AM
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WHY do you want to update the drivers? Are you having a problem that the new drivers are supposed to fix?
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11-19-2005, 09:50 AM
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Update Drivers
Well, I wanted to update the chipset drivers and then the BIOS (order that ASUS reccomends) so I can install my Creative X-Fi Fatality card.
Creative reccomends updating both chipset driver and BIOS before installing card. |
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11-19-2005, 10:43 AM
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You should not have to uninstall the chipset driver - the new driver should update the old one properly.
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11-19-2005, 10:45 AM
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You shouldn't have to update anything to install the X-fi card. Updating BIOS is especially unnecessary unless you need to update BIOS to solve a specific problem a newer version addresses. And I imagine the chipset drivers are the same way. There's no need to update either really, unless a new version address a specific problem that needs to be fixed to run something.
I hate it when instructions tell people to update BIOS when there's no need to, because whenever you update BIOS there's a risk of goofing it up. People will go blindly about it, and they can really mess things up. There's always a chance of power outage or something that will botch it up. If you botch up a BIOS update (power outage, switching off the computer too soon, or even trying to install the wrong BIOS or something like that) you've got a useless board if the BIOS is corrupted until you can get a replacement chip to go in there. If you can install the X-fi and run it OK without updating anything, than you can just leave it alone.
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11-19-2005, 11:51 AM
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X-Fi Install
Actually,
When I first tried to install the X-Fi the installer would crash and send a windows error report every time. Now, this may have nothing to do with my BIOS or chipset drivers but Creative reccomended I update both. |
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11-19-2005, 01:57 PM
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simple solution, install the card and if there are problems then update.
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11-19-2005, 02:46 PM
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11-21-2005, 09:16 AM
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Error Message
Exactly, just the nice little error message with no associated detail.....
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