Comments on: NVIDIA nForce2 Vista Drivers with Alternative for Audio and SMBus http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/ Living Digitally and Electronically Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:26:35 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Darth Vader http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/comment-page-1/#comment-590912 Darth Vader Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:51:45 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/#comment-590912 Use vlite to remove programs and other bloat from Vista. That will speed it up a lot..enough to run it on an nForce2 motherboard. I slimmed down the Vista DVD to only 580MB and fit it on a CD-R. It still has the Aero theme and is very functional and almost as fast as XP. It shuts down in a matter of seconds too. You need a copy of Vista RTM (no service packs), then use vlite on it. Go to www.vlite.net or google it. Regards, Paul Use vlite to remove programs and other bloat from Vista. That will speed it up a lot..enough to run it on an nForce2 motherboard.

I slimmed down the Vista DVD to only 580MB and fit it on a CD-R. It still has the Aero theme and is very functional and almost as fast as XP.
It shuts down in a matter of seconds too.

You need a copy of Vista RTM (no service packs), then use vlite on it. Go to http://www.vlite.net or google it.

Regards,
Paul

]]> By: guru http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/comment-page-1/#comment-589045 guru Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:55:20 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/#comment-589045 Nforce2 chipset driver for Vista. nVidia 2 motherbord driver piz sand me Nforce2 chipset driver for Vista. nVidia 2 motherbord driver piz sand me

]]> By: Janox http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/comment-page-1/#comment-511161 Janox Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:52:33 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/#comment-511161 Does this really help? Do i get almost the same performance in Vista with my GPU running these drivers for my mainboard as in XP? Because now my performance in Vista is about 40% lower than it was in XP. Thank You Does this really help? Do i get almost the same performance in Vista with my GPU running these drivers for my mainboard as in XP? Because now my performance in Vista is about 40% lower than it was in XP.

Thank You

]]> By: JASL http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/comment-page-1/#comment-462266 JASL Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:45:06 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/#comment-462266 <strong>THERE IS a nvidia driver that suports Dolby Digital Enconding, I don't know why it is so hidden. So hard to find it. It's nforce audio version 4.66 Beta(6.4.466) Regards </strong> THERE IS a nvidia driver that suports Dolby Digital Enconding, I don’t know why it is so hidden. So hard to find it. It’s nforce audio version 4.66 Beta(6.4.466)

Regards

]]> By: Jason http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/comment-page-1/#comment-277474 Jason Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:51:53 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/#comment-277474 Thank you for saving my hair. I have been battling, the non-existant Nforce2 chipset driver for Vista. nVidia don't support the aging chipset in driver releases so this workaround was a hair-saver ;) I installed on a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 motherboard. 1: Installed Vista. 2: Installed the Nforce4 SM BUS driver only. 3: Installed the AC97 (Vista_32bit) codec from Realtek. Works OK for me, have 5.1 sound now, will tinker and try the nforce sound driver. Thanks again. Thank you for saving my hair. I have been battling, the non-existant Nforce2 chipset driver for Vista. nVidia don’t support the aging chipset in driver releases so this workaround was a hair-saver ;)

I installed on a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 motherboard.

1: Installed Vista.
2: Installed the Nforce4 SM BUS driver only.
3: Installed the AC97 (Vista_32bit) codec from Realtek.

Works OK for me, have 5.1 sound now, will tinker and try the nforce sound driver.

Thanks again.

]]> By: HT Slider http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/comment-page-1/#comment-256658 HT Slider Thu, 31 May 2007 09:23:38 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/#comment-256658 Your page helped me get my ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe based HTPC up and running Vista. Thank you. I managed to take it one step further by installing nVidia's nForce2 audio drivers for XP over top of the beta Vista drivers (I don't know if the beta driver was actually required, but I assume it must be since no one else suggests doing this). This provides full Dolby Digital Live encoding support as well as SPDIF output (and full control over the outputs). I posted a detailed run down of what I did to get this running at The Green Button. It can be found here: http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/3/188141/ShowThread.aspx Your page helped me get my ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe based HTPC up and running Vista. Thank you.

I managed to take it one step further by installing nVidia’s nForce2 audio drivers for XP over top of the beta Vista drivers (I don’t know if the beta driver was actually required, but I assume it must be since no one else suggests doing this).

This provides full Dolby Digital Live encoding support as well as SPDIF output (and full control over the outputs).

I posted a detailed run down of what I did to get this running at The Green Button. It can be found here:

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/3/188141/ShowThread.aspx

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]]> By: Greg http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/comment-page-1/#comment-219387 Greg Tue, 01 May 2007 03:34:36 +0000 http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/04/29/nvidia-nforce2-vista-drivers-with-alternative-for-audio-and-smbus/#comment-219387 If you want to have the 5.1 Coaxial/Optical working with nforce2 you need to download 6231_vista_APO.zip file from realtek. uninstall the Nvidia nForce Audio Codec Interface. The other nvidia MCP is for assigning the rear speakers, center, subwoofer and Digital Outputs an ID number so they can be identified as devices in XP. Nvidia failed to do that in these generic Vista drivers so that's why they don't work correctly. Plus this will just constantly reinstall itself if you try to uninstall it, so you can just leave it be. Unpack the zip file and run the install. You will get several unsigned driver popups, just allow them. It may take several minutes for the install as well as it to restart. If you get a freeze up on the initial bios boot screen it should allow you to access the bios by pressing del. go through to on board devices, the install some how miniflashed the bios to add an onboard modem just disable this,save and reboot.(if you don't get this error just continue) Vista should start now. You should see the new driver installed in the device manager, if not you will have to manually change it with the realtek AC'97 or VIA driver(both seem to have the same affect). Under sound properties you should notice speakers and Realtek Digital Output. Go through the configurations and you should notice the channel testing hitting all the speakers. This will now default the output to 2 speakers instead of the pseudo Dolby Digital freeing up your rear speakers so they can run in matrix. This also allows programs like PowerDVD and others to identify the SPDIF to bypass predecoding for Dolby Digital and DTS allowing your receiver to decode it correctly(which is better anyways, it allows more than just 5.1 if you have a better receiver). Just disable startup of the soundman since the realtek mixer doesn't work anyways. I did try to install the drivers directly and it didn't ID the Digital out correctly, mind you these realtek drivers are Vista Drivers so perhaps the setup install does something else. Enjoy! If this screws up your computer well, its a chance you'll have to take if you really want 5.1. I'm not responsible. If you have a Phoenix-AwardBIOS V6 on an MSI board, you should be safe. But maybe I got lucky. If you want to have the 5.1 Coaxial/Optical working with nforce2 you need to download 6231_vista_APO.zip file from realtek. uninstall the Nvidia nForce Audio Codec Interface. The other nvidia MCP is for assigning the rear speakers, center, subwoofer and Digital Outputs an ID number so they can be identified as devices in XP. Nvidia failed to do that in these generic Vista drivers so that’s why they don’t work correctly. Plus this will just constantly reinstall itself if you try to uninstall it, so you can just leave it be.

Unpack the zip file and run the install. You will get several unsigned driver popups, just allow them. It may take several minutes for the install as well as it to restart. If you get a freeze up on the initial bios boot screen it should allow you to access the bios by pressing del. go through to on board devices, the install some how miniflashed the bios to add an onboard modem just disable this,save and reboot.(if you don’t get this error just continue) Vista should start now. You should see the new driver installed in the device manager, if not you will have to manually change it with the realtek AC’97 or VIA driver(both seem to have the same affect). Under sound properties you should notice speakers and Realtek Digital Output. Go through the configurations and you should notice the channel testing hitting all the speakers. This will now default the output to 2 speakers instead of the pseudo Dolby Digital freeing up your rear speakers so they can run in matrix. This also allows programs like PowerDVD and others to identify the SPDIF to bypass predecoding for Dolby Digital and DTS allowing your receiver to decode it correctly(which is better anyways, it allows more than just 5.1 if you have a better receiver). Just disable startup of the soundman since the realtek mixer doesn’t work anyways.

I did try to install the drivers directly and it didn’t ID the Digital out correctly, mind you these realtek drivers are Vista Drivers so perhaps the setup install does something else.

Enjoy! If this screws up your computer well, its a chance you’ll have to take if you really want 5.1. I’m not responsible. If you have a Phoenix-AwardBIOS V6 on an MSI board, you should be safe. But maybe I got lucky.

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