Updating K8N Neo4 Plat drivers - MSI or Nvidia?

[Don Burnette]

I am looking at updating my current motherboard drivers for my new K8N Neo4
Plat mb.

Currently, I have the MSI mb drivers installed from the cd, which appear to
be version 5.10. Live Update did not find any newer mb drivers, however on
the MSI website it appears there is a later version, 5.34, dated July of 05.

I also looked at the Nvidia site, and it shows a version 6.70 released Oct
of 05.

Would it be better to just install the Nvidia drivers, or should I stick
with MSI?

I have a slight stability problem I am trying to solve, and updating the mb
drivers and bios are my next steps.


Thanks for any tips,

 

[André, PE1PQX]

I am looking at updating my current motherboard drivers for my new K8N Neo4

Plat mb.

Currently, I have the MSI mb drivers installed from the cd, which appear to
be version 5.10. Live Update did not find any newer mb drivers, however on
the MSI website it appears there is a later version, 5.34, dated July of 05.

I also looked at the Nvidia site, and it shows a version 6.70 released Oct of
05.

Would it be better to just install the Nvidia drivers, or should I stick with
MSI?

I have a slight stability problem I am trying to solve, and updating the mb
drivers and bios are my next steps.


Thanks for any tips,

I think you sould try the latest drivers first.
Imcompatible hardware could also cause stability problems, like DIMMS
that are not supported with your motherboard.
One point of attention is if the hardware (like AGP and fax-modems etc)
installed has no driver problems, check your hardware-management and
look for the yellow '!' mark.
An other issue is the powersupply, if you use a cheap one, you might
run in stability problems.
This happened here with my system (have a MSI KT6-Delta moherboard,
Athlon XP 2600+)
The last thing to do is flashing/upgrade the BIOS.

Good luck with it.

André

 

[Don Burnette]

I think you sould try the latest drivers first.
Imcompatible hardware could also cause stability problems, like DIMMS
that are not supported with your motherboard.
One point of attention is if the hardware (like AGP and fax-modems
etc) installed has no driver problems, check your hardware-management
and look for the yellow '!' mark.
An other issue is the powersupply, if you use a cheap one, you might
run in stability problems.
This happened here with my system (have a MSI KT6-Delta moherboard,
Athlon XP 2600+)
The last thing to do is flashing/upgrade the BIOS.

Good luck with it.

André

Thanks Andre'

There are not conflicts in device manager.
Would you use the latest MSI drivers, or Nvidia drivers? The Nvidia drivers
seem to be more current than the MSI.

 

[André, PE1PQX]

Thanks Andre'

There are not conflicts in device manager.
Would you use the latest MSI drivers, or Nvidia drivers? The Nvidia drivers
seem to be more current than the MSI.

Then try the NVidia drivers, these are devolped for your hardware, in't
it?!!?

André

PS.: I think it is best to always use the latest drivers in case of
problems etc, but always check the bug list!

 

[dino]

some of the instability could be from several things...BIOS settings...the
Nvidia IDE driver...shared IRQ's..at the least check BIOS settings first..
CELL Menu Disable Spread Spectrum , Disable CoolnQuiet..Disable the auto
Overclock feature..download Memtest and make the bootable floppy and test
your ram.
http://www.memtest.org/

 

[don]

MSI's 5.34 may be the version of the MB drivers installer pkg. It may very
well include NVidia's latest drivers. there is usually a version explanation
on the web site.

Also I stopped using Live update quite a while ago. At that time it only
checked for newer bios updates, does it now look for Driver updates as well?

 

[Don Burnette]

MSI's 5.34 may be the version of the MB drivers installer pkg. It may
very well include NVidia's latest drivers. there is usually a version
explanation on the web site.

Also I stopped using Live update quite a while ago. At that time it
only checked for newer bios updates, does it now look for Driver
updates as well?

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[Don Burnette]

MSI's 5.34 may be the version of the MB drivers installer pkg. It may
very well include NVidia's latest drivers. there is usually a version
explanation on the web site.

Also I stopped using Live update quite a while ago. At that time it
only checked for newer bios updates, does it now look for Driver
updates as well?

Yes, it will also search for driver and utility updates as well.

Thanks,