Hi Fernando,
Quick background, running a 2004 era system:
Gigabyte GA-7NNXP mobo
AMD Athlon 3200+ processor
ATI Radeon X1950 Pro graphics card
This system has AGP and the nForce2 chipset
Windows 7
I found your thread because I wanted to have 3GB ram but W7 is only allowing 2GB with nForce2
You suggested trying the older XP driver found in the zip folder you provided, "32bit_nForce2_GART_driver_v4.4.0.rar"...
I downloaded that file and attempted to revert to that older driver in the way that you mentioned, using "have disk".

Of the 6 files in that zip folder, only the nv_agp.inf was identified with the have disk option. Are the other files important? I went forward with the install, but I got a black screen, and rebooting gave me a BSOD.
I was able to revert to the previous reliable boot up condition, which presumably swapped back in the original *.inf.
I was wondering whether the other files should also be installed to complete the driver set. I'd like to give this v4.4 driver a shot so that I can use 3GB of ram, but I'm not certain how to fully install it.
Can you give more detail?

Also, what is the "nvugart.exe" file? Googling that file name just reports it as malicious / malware, etc. I thought it might be a driver installer.
Driver zip folder contents:
nv_agp.cat
nv_agp.inf
nv_agp.sys
nvcog.dll
nvgart.nvu
nvugart.exe

Thank you

Hello, I have a Problem with my Fijitsu Siemens Scaleo P A8NE-FM from Asus with nVIDIA CK804 socket 939 x2 4200+
I wanted a new install Win7 32 bit in raid mode, but Windows setup always shows up my 2 drives, not the raid0, that the bios is showing fine.
I tried 32bit nForce IDE drivers v9.98 from your pack "Fernandos nForce4 WHQL Driverpack for VistaWin7Win8 32bit v9.0". But at install point it never shows the raid array.
Am I doing something wrong or is it simply not possible with this board.Thank you!

Thank you! Everything worked as you said!
Danke Dieter! Gruß Thomas

only one thing, when I try to shrink my boot partition, its only possible to the half of the raid?
I wanted C: to be ca 50-60 GB, but I am only able to shrink the 298 Gb to 149 GB.

Hello Fernando,

I have to say a BIG THANK you to you for this work you did with these drivers etc.

I have a question now. Maybe you can help. I strongly believe you can ;-)

My "old" computer was standing around in my room with no use for about 2 years now and now Windows 10 Technical Preview came out.
And I thought I could reactivate the old PC to test it.
It's a DFI Lanparty nf4 Ultra-D Mainboard with a Athlon 62 x2 4200+ Processor. It's a good combo and Windows 10 runs very good on it, at least for testing.
As disks I have 2 SATA Western Digital Raptors 74GB in a RAID0 setup with the nForce 4 Raid Controller.
My "problem" now is that I have to insert the NF4_LEGACY_SATARAID_VISTA_BOOT.iso - CD which has the 1.17MB Bootable_NoEmulation.img burned onto it
every time I start the PC so that Windows 10 does start up. If I dont insert the CD it starts to boot (you can see Windows 10 icon) but then there is a halt/error and it wants to repair or do recovery. So somehow it can see the MBR/Bootsector of the disk but I guess this is not striped so it goes on and then it stops.

I also had to use this CD to install Win 10 because of the two F6 drivers I found none really worked during install routine. But I like this legacy CD more anyway.
So the question is now. How do I integrate this driver into my boot sequence without having to put in the CD, boot from it -> remove CD -> press Enter -> boots from RAID into Win10.

I already tried installing the RAID drivers from this thread in Windows 10. The installation was successful but it seems to be not enough to make the RAID available during Boot stage. I dont want to have a big effort with slipstreaming anything into an Iso... I already installed W10 and there must be a possibility to make 1.17 MB of code execute before it tries to boot from HD without having to switch CD all the time...

Also I wonder how this worked with W7 or Windows XP without big problems (although I dont remember if i did use F6 install or legacy bootcd at install).
But after successfully installing with manually loading RAID driver then during BOOT stage... it never was a problem... I am curious why???

Do you think somehow it is possible to extract the legacy driver and use it in F6 installation and this is the only possibility?
Also is the F6 method always needed in general to make Windows "remember" the driver for the future boot ups?

Just a little addition:
I for example never understood why I should install RAID drivers in Windows itself after a successful installation of Windows XP or Windows 7. Because
always when I installed these systems on a RAID I needed to provide F6 Floppy/CD/USB media or use some kind of Legacy RAID Boot CD depending on Chipset anyway.
And then after the installation the system would start normally and RAID performance was already there and good!
Maybe it's just for additional features and safety and for the best experience.
But I really want to know why RAID on the one hand is so simple and easy that even (!!!) the old Norton Ghost 7.0 floppy boot disk that I own is able to backup/restore of/on my RAID0 disk/partition WITHOUT any further driver installations beforehand! But then again Windows and many other programs have problems to detect an array after boot.

Thanks for your help in advance!
F.

Hi there.

I have: nforce 3 250 socket 939 mainboard
Athlon 64 x2 4600+
Sapphire radeon 3850 512 AGP
and 2x1gb ddr 400 memory.

And everything works under windows 7 x64 except for gpu, after installing catalyst 13.9 agp hotfix, my device menager says code 43 - device disabled next to the gpu.
It seems to be pretty common problem, and as far as I can tell, unresolvable.
What sparked my interest howerver, is this post at sevenforums.com, and I quote:

"For you guys having trouble with nforce3 x ati:
Install SMbus manually from here:
NVIDIA: Optimized nForce Driverpacks for Vista/Win7 (<- Fernando's site)

The nforce4 Works just fine.
In devmanager, install with disk the SMBus driver (system devices, NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management)

DONT INSTALL IDE DRIVERS, FROM SETUP OR MANUALLY. System wont read your HDD if you do.

And change " nforce 3 250 agp host to pci" to "nforce 3 AGP host to pci" too.

Do this BEFORE installing the gpu driver, it will be reading your agp port correctly with this changes (full 8x, not 4x)

Change both, or you will be getting BSOD."

And I am not quite sure how achieve second step.
Any ideas?

Thank you for warm welcome and quick reply.
http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards...400-pro-33.html <- fourth post

nforce 3 250 agp host to pci is under device manager-> system devices

As of 2009 [ year anyone still bothered] possible solutions to nforce3-ati agp gpu-dual core processors and x64 above vista systems were:

Replace the mainboard with a non-Nforce chipset
Replace the ATI AGP graphics card with a Nvidia AGP graphics card
Disable the one of the processor core or install a single core processor
Downgrade to Windows XP or install Linux instead

Disabling one core enables gpu, but then cpu usage skyrockets to non-stop 100%, and it is kinda sluggish in explorer
Installing GART driver v434 for x64 winxp provided few posts back results in automatic system recovery at boot.

Nvidia said it is impossible for that combo to work as nforce3 was never meant for dual core, but nvidia's agp gpu's work with amd dual core and nforce3 in win7.

Apart from that, civilization V works on single non-overclocked core on max detail [apart from dx11 ones ofc] in 1080p and at stable 40 fps.
I have no idea how is that possible and i suspect the machine is possessed, please advise.

Update: After few turns fps locked on 60. This thing mends itself.

It is still one-cored, and without proper GART driver I think it will never work properly. I'm just surprised by its performance in that crippled state. Since I have only 2GB of RAM, do you think switching to win 7 32-bit will change anything?

Thank you for your time.
I think that the best solution for turning this into proper office-pc is simply buying another mainboard.
But for now, it goes back to gathering dust.
Cheers :) .

I recently installed Win 7x64 in a dual boot with XP configuration on an Asus A8N-SLI Premium board. Seven would not return from Sleep, while XP did so with no issues. Tried your drivers & now Windows 7 resumes from sleep with no problems.
Have been fighting this issue for nearly a week.

Thanks a million.