I think I have had enough of Nvidia !!!
Missileman
Orlando, Florida Icrontian
as many of you have probably heard (or experienced), Nvidia couldn't be bothered to have any working Vista drivers ready. They didn't really do much during the beta stuff, but they had nothing available for release. Now they did have some on disk drivers that came with Vista, if you didn't want to use your RAID. On top of that the on disk drivers were unstable. I haven't had this many video crash out since VLB and Win3.1.
Today they released WHQL Nforce drivers. THEY DON'T WORK. Half of the people can install them, another high percentage can't boot after installing them. In my case they installed, but I can't do restart. If I do they hang on the RAID bios scanning array screen. I have to power down and back on then they work.
I can't believe that a company that has the market share that they do, with only 5 years preparation, can't have a working driver for ANY of there products. Especially when their stuff costs over $600.
I am sitting here looking for a geniune Intel 975 board, core2duo, and 2GB of DDR2, and an ATI X1950. Never another Nvida anything in my house. Enough is enough.
Today they released WHQL Nforce drivers. THEY DON'T WORK. Half of the people can install them, another high percentage can't boot after installing them. In my case they installed, but I can't do restart. If I do they hang on the RAID bios scanning array screen. I have to power down and back on then they work.
I can't believe that a company that has the market share that they do, with only 5 years preparation, can't have a working driver for ANY of there products. Especially when their stuff costs over $600.
I am sitting here looking for a geniune Intel 975 board, core2duo, and 2GB of DDR2, and an ATI X1950. Never another Nvida anything in my house. Enough is enough.
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The last nail though was the version 15 Nforce MB/IDE/Ethernet drivers. They are supposed to be WHQL and I can't do a system restart. The driver is spinning the disks down when I restart like it would during a shutdown. Forces me to shutdown and turn back on to get the array to post.
and never let the machine sleep. It will become comatose since video and drives will never come back.
I'm just frustrated with the whole thing. Everybody else managed to get working drivers. I expected a few quirks or bugs, but I can't keep this system up 10 minutes without having to hit the reset button. and this is a system that is so rock solid under XP Pro that it has never even crashed a program let alone the whole system.
I may lose a little performance by going back to Geniune Intel, but at least it will work. I fight screwed up machines almost evry day. I don't wnat to have to fight my own too
I got this motherboard :
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813121059
This processor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115003
This RAM:(cause they were out of the good stuff and the Egg gave me a $20 off coupon)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820161063
and this video card: (until the DX10 ones release)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814195029
I also ordered the adapters for the LGA775 socket for my waterblock so I think i have it all covered.
Nvidia has gone to my blacklist. I am FREE !!! FREE I tell you.
There may be a big Nvida closeout sale shortly
Good luck with your new purchase, let us know how it all runs. let me know what Nvidia items you have, as i might be more than willing to take them off your hands....
I see that you went with the BadAx mobo. Very spendy, but very stable.
I like my 1950pro.
The core for Vista hasn't changed in the last few years, just the window dressing. NVidia steped on their dick with this one.
Yeah but the ATI drivers are still crap...
Like I said, a few bugs, glitches were expected. I could understand if some of the older products were a few days late, but to have your current shipping products be useless is a joke and an insult to the customer. If they lack the skills to coordinate something this important, or worse, that there designs are this hard to work with, then I no longer have faith in them or there products.
All the other companies (even the big ones) managed to get working drivers that install properly out. Sure they are not all perfect, but at least the basics work. I could do a clean install to my RAID and expect my ethernet and on board sound to work.
Okay, I'm done ranting for now :bigggrin:
I guess I really don't miss my monster SLI setup at this point in time
What Nvidia products are you having issues with?
I have Vista installed on a RAID, sound and LAN work perfect. Even the Nvidia video card works like a champ. Not one bios crash on this board. I do get this strange random lockup when I'm in the bios once in a while. No pattern or particular spot. Kinda why I don't trust this memory.
I haven't really had a lot of test time cause I did something that you never should do ---- Volunteer. I was at one of my Doctor clients and she was running around giving all the staff blood sugar tests. I said go ahead and poke me since I haven't had it checked in a couple of years. Well I failed and got a sugar reading of 291 (normal is 100-120 for those that don't know). So I have spent the last 3 days giving more blood than I thought I could so they can make sure my pancreas is still alive (they say it is) and today I was filled with a whole pharmacy of goodies which have a long list of unpleasant side effects. Kinda hoping I could skate on this, but my whole family has always had late life onset diabetes so I guess it's just my time. Can I put ketchup on that cardboard????