A7N8X ForceWare 4.24 IDE driver

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Strange, just ran HD Tach 2.7 on both of my PATA drives and it says CPU
Utilization is 0.0%. With IDE driver from the previous forceware drivers
(3.13?) it was showing 23.5%. Transfer/bursts rates basiclly unchanged.

Ed
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A7N8X v2.00 BIOS 1004 @ 206x11
2-PATA HDD w/8MB buffer

 

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"Ed" <nobox@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Strange, just ran HD Tach 2.7 on both of my PATA drives and it says CPU
> Utilization is 0.0%. With IDE driver from the previous forceware drivers
> (3.13?) it was showing 23.5%. Transfer/bursts rates basiclly unchanged.
>
> Ed
> --
> A7N8X v2.00 BIOS 1004 @ 206x11
> 2-PATA HDD w/8MB buffer
>

I have 2 x SATA drives in a RAID0 array, and my system did not like the IDE
drivers, so I switched back to the standard MS ones.
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Doug Ramage

 

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Not to sound like an idiot, but is it OK to use these drivers? I stopped
with the latest (1.16?) from Asus because of the product ID numbering. IS
this no longer an issue, allowing for reference driver use?

Stuart

"Doug Ramage" <namxat666@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Ed" <nobox@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:keq1a098br6v9c7ktt1cohcut3h6pt7aj2@4ax.com...
> > Strange, just ran HD Tach 2.7 on both of my PATA drives and it says CPU
> > Utilization is 0.0%. With IDE driver from the previous forceware drivers
> > (3.13?) it was showing 23.5%. Transfer/bursts rates basiclly unchanged.
> >
> > Ed
> > --
> > A7N8X v2.00 BIOS 1004 @ 206x11
> > 2-PATA HDD w/8MB buffer
> >
>
> I have 2 x SATA drives in a RAID0 array, and my system did not like the
IDE
> drivers, so I switched back to the standard MS ones.
> --
> Doug Ramage
>
>

 

[Ed]

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On Thu, 13 May 2004 10:21:21 -0500, "C. Stuart McKendrick, III"
<sales.NOSPAM@mapneworleans.com> wrote:

>Not to sound like an idiot, but is it OK to use these drivers? I stopped
>with the latest (1.16?) from Asus because of the product ID numbering. IS
>this no longer an issue, allowing for reference driver use?
>
>Stuart

Actually I think the original drivers were the fastest (Asus v1.16?) for
my plain jane A7N8X v2.

I used to get better transfer rates over my LAN (lost about 500-600 bps)
, ram scores are lower, 3D marks are no better. The HDD may be a hair
faster and use less CPU usage but the rest of the PC just seems to of
gotten slower according to benchmarks.

Ed