Nvidia Nforce Drivers Windows 7 32-bit

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Cdztattoo Barreto

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Jun 30, 2024, 6:18:38 AM6/30/24
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"Your Multi-function device "Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller" has some child devices using 32-bit drivers and others using compatibility mode drivers. Their Configuration is not supported, so your computer has been halted to prevent corruption.

If you want to use 32-bit drivers, you may be able to obtain an updated driver for the device that caused the problem by contacting your hardware manufacturer or you can disable the device. Press any Key to Continue."

Now I saw some solutions, like removing noide from registy and removing the PCI controller. But it continues to reinstall it and I can't find any drivers. I'm using a Nvidia Nforce 4 Ultra motherboard by BFG Tech, 2 Sata hard drives and 2 IDE DVD drives. My computer won't recognize the DVD drive in 98 but XP can use them. If anyone knows a good solution, I'll try it. Thanks!

I have no experience using SATA controllers/drives with 98SE/ME OS, but I've read about frequent problems, because SATA drivers are developed mostly for 2000/XP/2003/Longhorn, because it is a newer technology, and at the time of its release MS stopped supporting 9x/ME OSes.

What does that setting actually do? Ive installed win98 and win2k with that option set to yes and no, and I didnt notice any difference (not that I was examining it with a magnifying glass or anything though).

2. PnP OS enabled/disabled in BIOS used to be heavily used on [some] 440BX Intel chipset based mobos to fool 9x/ME/2000 into re-shuffling the hardware IRQs [and other resources] independent of BIOS settings. If enabled, this option used to either lock up the PC or the OS was unable to use IRQ steering properly, which usually resulted in "down-grading" to "MS-DOS compatibility mode".

I've had that very problem several times. In fact each time I did upgrade my motherboard/CPU combo for another one. From an MSI/Duron to an MSI NForce2/Athlon. And then from that one to my current Abit NF7S/Athlon 2600. I did not manage to solve the problem when it occured and reinstalled the OS from scratch but I have dwelt on the question since. I think the key is a proper removal of the old drivers which I did not do well apparently. Removing all the Nvidia files (including infs) and resetting the hardware settings in the registry should theoretically send you back to hardware detection at the next reboot. Then it should be a matter of letting windows install the default drivers and then installing the specific mobo drivers. There has been some posts recently about how to reset hardware registry settings from safe mode but I can't recall where. I think that RegCleaner includes a tool which does it in just one click.

So far I use the disk as a full 1TB (1024 GB) HDD. There are about 373 GB I cannot allocate to any partition or file system as it won't format further than 73% (BTW it take hours to reach 73%, but I guess it is due to the size and Green nature of this WD HDD).

Fellows, you need to use your search engines. So far I've found this: Toms Hardware; Can't Fully Format Seagate ST31500341AS; which led me to this: Seagate Knowledge Base Large SATA Drives Will Not Completely Format.

The chipset on the E521 is the Nvidia GeForce 6150LE; you will find that chipset number in the table on the Seagate note. Notice that the note says that older drivers "may" have been used and this seems to be connected to the problem you are having. If this is indeed the problem you may need to seek alternative solutions as the E521 is past the point at which Dell is likely to issue an updated driver. I'm sure Dell will not guarantee success if you decide to pull a newer driver directly from the nVidia site, and if any mods have been made specially for Dell the update might even disable your machines.

Incidentally, from what I understand, drives larger than 2 TB are going to give everyone trouble eventually as the MBR method of partitioning doesn't support those larger drives very well. We are going to need to learn about the GUID approach.

Wow, thank you so much for posting this!! I have a WD Caviar Green 1.5 TB HD and your post, from step 6 - 8 made a huge difference for me, and finally I could make use of the whole drive. I would highly recommend if someone else is having a similar problem to follow your advice from step 1-8. I had already updated Motherboard, had updated the Nvidia driver to the nforce series, which, on another board was recommended. (For the record, I am using the 15.49 nForce drivers. I think the main point that I was missing was in not checking for updated SATA drivers using device manager; AND reinstalling the latest Nvidia drivers again, restarting the pc, and I went an extra step further, deleting the partition and volume, and started over again. It formatted (quick format) within seconds, the way it should work. Had you not posted this, I may have been googling until my eyes were googling out of my head so thank you so much for being courteous to post your how to guide.

Now, if I can just remember NOT to let windows updates try to install their 'newest' drivers because in my case, the nforce drivers (windows 64 bit by the way) were the only ones that worked for this from what I can see. I do think too that updating the SATA controllers contributed to the success.

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