Re: How do you install mobo drivers?


"RobV" <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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milleron wrote:
RobV wrote:
Fred wrote:
RobV wrote:
Ron Miller wrote:
RobV wrote:
Si wrote:
I have a Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 Motherboard and I noticed
that there were new drivers for it namely the nForce 15.08
ones. So I downloaded them and installed them but after I
rebooted I noticed that the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon was
in the sys tray. When I clicked on it a box appeared asking if
I wanted to remove my hard drive which obviously I don't. What
did I do wrong? I cancelled the box but the remove hardware
icon remained in the sys tray. I ended up using System Restore
to get things back to normal but I would like to know how to
install these drivers properly so I can keep my PC up to date.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

Si

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40GHz
BFG Tech 768MB 8800GTX OC2 PCX
ASUS P5N-E SLI SKT LGA 775
2GB Corsair DDR2 XMS-6400C4 TwinX
Samsung 500GB HD501LJ Spinpoint Sata II
M-Audio DX4 Speakers
Corsair 620W HX Series Modular SLi
Aspire X-Cruiser Metal Case
Windows Vista Home Premium 32 Bit
Samsung 226BW LCD Monitor
The "safely remove hardware" icon and prompt usually comes up
when anything external is plugged into any of the USB ports, or
other external ports you may have.

If you don't have anything externally connected to the computer
(USB printer, mouse, keyboard, disk drive, to name a few), then
just ignore it. Something is obviously not connected properly
(or the BIOS is corrupt) for it to show the system drive as
removable (unless it is). Ideally, as soon as the OS is
installed, the first thing you should
do is install the chipset drivers.


The system drive actually will show up on the list. Having it
there doesn't mean that something's not connected properly OR
that the BIOS is corrupt. All SATA HDs show up on the list. One
should just ignore the presence of these drives on the "Safely
Remove Hardware" list.
Well, that's interesting. I have two SATA drives in my system, one
of them the system drive, and neither one shows up in "Safely
Remove Hardware". All of my USB devices that are flash memory
drives do, however. What OS are you running?
It depends on the drivers you use.
If you use the nVidia drivers the SATA drives appear in "Safely
Remove Hardware".
Using the Microsoft drivers they don't.

Thanks, Fred. My next question was going to be, do the drives have
to be set as AHCI or RAID to show up there. Also, I keep forgetting
that different chipsets will not necessarily have the same features.


I do NOT have RAID enabled, and all of my SATA drives appear on the
"Safely Remove Hardware" List.

Ron

Well, milleron, or Ron Miller, I was responding to Fred's helpful post,
not to you. You seem to really be hung up on this. Perhaps you should
understand that not all chipsets work the same, which is the mistake I
made to begin with, and now your mistake as well, as you're insisting that
my SATA drives, however they're configured, should show up in my "Safely
Remove Hardware" list.

Since the OP still has a question regarding installation of drivers,
perhaps you should concentrate on helping him/her.

HAND


While he asks about installing mobo drivers, it really sound like he wants
the "add remove hardware" icon to disappear.

I'm not sure exactly about his particular mobo, but it sounds like he has
his system drive connected to SATA ports that support hot swapping. I had
the same thing happen on my Gigabyte board.

It's really cosmetic, because chances are even if he did accidentally try to
"remove" his drive he is likely to be denied as it will still be in use, and
even if he did all he would need to do is reboot.

I expect if he entered the BIOS and set the onboard SATA ctrl mode to IDE,
his "problem" would go away.

He should try a restore point/backup to before he installed the drivers,
otherwise he probably needs to start from scratch.

If he does have a third party controller, like jmicron, and isn't using
raid, he might consider moving the HDD to one of the chipset controller SATA
connectors and his system drive won't appear. There is no advantage using
NCQ for the home user anyway.

He might try asking Nvidia, maybe there is a command switch that will allow
him to force an install of an older driver opackage over a later version.




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