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nForce4 IDE Driver - data corruption
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:05 am
by R00k
I'm guessing a lot of you guys have probably heard of this issue before?
I just heard of it yesterday, and I'm wondering if it isn't related to some of the problems I've been having with my system lately.
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/in ... t8171.html
Apparently when you stress the bus a lot (gaming, large data copies, etc), it will eventually lead to data corruption on the drive.
This affects SATA drives when you are using the nForce4 IDE driver. Removing the nVidia IDE driver and using the Windows driver seems to eliminate the problem.
Anybody else had any experience with this?
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:41 pm
by R00k
Well I removed the nvidia ide driver a couple days ago, and I haven't had a blue screen or any errors so far at all.
Before - even after my recent clean XP install - I have had random blue screens in AoE3 and other games.
I'm not getting too excited, but if I go a few more days without any errors I might even start feeling confident about my system again.
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:01 pm
by shadd_
gl man. sounds like pain in the ass. using the windows driver does not affect performance at all?
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:27 pm
by R00k
Apparently the difference is barely perceptible in benchmarks, and you still get fairly close to the theoretical limit of the bus architecture.
I haven't run any benches on my machine, but haven't noticed any difference in performance so far.
I hope it's the solution I'm looking for.
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:59 pm
by shadd_
get 3dmark2k1se. it's a little old but still the best for checking overall basic system performance. the low detail tests are cpu limited, high detail gpu limited. some depend on mem speed, some on both cpu+mem speed. you can usually pinpoint any problem by the results.
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:27 am
by R00k
Cool, I'll do it. Do you know of any drive/data thruput testing apps?
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:40 am
by shadd_
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:52 am
by R00k
Thanks. :icon14:
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:05 am
by YourGrandpa
R00k wrote:Thanks. :icon14:
SiSoft Sandra has bench marks tests that will allow you to compare your drive's performance to other drives.
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:21 am
by shadd_
pcmark/3dmark can do that. thousands upon thousands of results on the ORB(online result browser)to compare. you can choose a shitload of system variables in your compare search as well.
sandra is good but futuremark is better, much better.