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Another interesting fact is how Windows can even use the ODD when there's no drivers present for it (could be a SATA drive after all).

In this early phase of setup, rudimentary access to drives is granted by the BIOS, a mode which does not require any specific (non-generic) drivers.

This is also the reason why, if you switch your SATA controller mode from, say, Legacy to RAID, Windows will not finish booting, but it will start and end with a BSOD.
Obviously, to show a BSOD, files have to be loaded from the HDD, however, with no proper drivers available (changing modes will change PCI IDs meaning drivers will be missing), this is again also only possible through the BIOS access method.

In short, what those drivers allow you to do is enabling higher-level drive access for best performance and enhanced features.

Well, to put it correctly, it's not the board not supporting SLI but Nvidia's drivers not supporting the X38 chipset (deliberately due to company policy...)
With some older nForce-drivers you could actually "hack" it in order to run on non-nforce boards.

Basically, ATi allows multi GPU pairing on any platform while Nvidia only allows it on their own chipsets and only the more expensive ones.
Go figure...

What puzzles me right now is whether this may have anything to do with the problem you are experiencing.
One would think not but who knows...

Two things:

First: Post in the right Forum - this is for BASE Feature Requests (as the title clearly states).
Second: Be more descriptive about what file does not install when, what you did, how you did it etc.
Also, post your log files and see my sig for more info about the DriverPacks.

**MOVED**

Heh, what a surprise, AntiVir and AVG once again being abotu the only programmes deteting a valid file as a false positive.

I mean, I cannot be conincedence when almost everywhere you go no matter what topic, users report false positives of various files, it's 99% one of these scanners.

My personal opinion is to dumb them and use something else.
What good is it for if it makes you paranoid seing evil around every corner (file)?

At least they chose a proper designation so you can see it's only a harmless hide tool...

Forum glitch.
Happens more often than it should (read: never).
Best is to leave them both, unless you manually double-posted, the other one ususally vanishes after some time.

Hopefully the server move will cure this!

Dunno, but that would still require the HAL to be the same as you cannot reinitialize that.
Then again, 9x is pretty much totally different from NT in so many things there's no reason to compare.

Yeah, this is why I said, if the BIOS supports it.
IDK whether a "true" USB ODD will appear different to the BIOS than a flash drive, but if you cannot boot from USB at all (no option present), you may be at a dead end.
Never done that myself, though, so no guarantees on anything

I'd think so, because it is being adressed via the US-Bus rather than the floppy bus.

That definately would be preferred.

Yeah, dunno, there's this option to always search WindowsUpdate, so maybe it's possible.

Keep the Drivers, it'S a BASE option (please read the description there or refer to the FAQ on this forum (see sig).

Nah, certainly not.
In the other thread, you could see there was a demand.
Thing is probably just that folks may have forgotten over time.

You may want to PM the requester so that he knows of you programme.

Also, I think we have many lurkers here and folks that have not registered.
This will follow the link and use the software but do not tell about it (unfortunately).
Maybe you can monitor thread acces figures to get an idea for popularity.

It definately is on my testing list (though I see no direct need for myself), but as with the other tests, it will have to wait a while...

Which ones do you want to have cleaned up?
All the rest in this thread?

Will be done right away.
If any other, just bleep

Erik, I will test them, definately!
I need to reinstall anyway.

Thing is just, additionally to the heat, I have also been very busy all day long at my grandma's the whole week!
Need to do some desperate repairs at the house, renovation of the outer walls (they really look terrible after all these years being exposed to the elements) and I need to get this done before winter (because I fear frost will do additional damage) and I also cannot and do not want to work in bad weather (so the sun is welcome, albeits it's a bit too much for physical work in the open...).

So, yeah, I only got as far as testing on the test PC and that's that.
Don't get home before 11 PM and I don't feel much like backing this thing up, burning a new disc (as you updated the pack) and running a test instal that may potentially fail

Maybe I can find another system with an AGP port to put the card in and boot and install from a USB disk, but it won't be done before Sunday, I fear...

Again, I'm sorry for having promised this (yet, I' still eager to keep it!).

Can you send the wrong card back, at least?
Would hate to see you waste money

So, I guess I can now finally unstick the other, partially request, thread and set this one up.

Thing is, 64bit applications also take up more space on the HDD and more RAM than their 32bit counterparts.
While you finally can address more than 4GB on a 64bit OS, this should also be taken into consideration when you want to switch.

Of course, you could still use 32bit apps, but then the question araises, what's the use?

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