Motherboard Diagnostic

Hopalong X,

Might all be useless on my part but I wasn't doing anything else.

Anything that reduces the amount of groping that I do is not useless. Thanks.

Hopalong X said:

Also there MAY be more up to date drivers for the moboard at Nvidia.
Under Option2 you can search for mobo drivers. It will install an Active X and search the data base.
Just an idea.

Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

Since that button is labeled graphic drivers, I doubt that it would help with nForce drivers. The last time that I checked, the only new drivers available were from third party sources, and whether they worked properly or not was hit and miss.

Hopalong X said:

When you get to the page under graphics is Option 2 with a Motherboard Driver Button. It will take you and want to install Active X to find your hardware.
In fact just click the button below the link copied with button.

Here is what that got:

We're sorry, the NVIDIA Smart Scan does not support your system at this time.

Supported operating systems: Microsoft Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Media Center, and Windows Vista.

Supported browsers: Internet Explorer.

EDIT: I tried it again in IE, and it did display a page to install ActiveX, so I guess that they don't like Opera. Still, I'm a bit reluctant since they don't list Windows 7 as being supported.

sygnus21 said:

seekermeister said:

essenbe said:

This is an image of my bios I was referring to.

Attachment 153143

Hmm, I guess that you must have drug out your camera to get that shot...thanks.

I think that UEFI BIOS can be shown in Windows. Could be wrong though.

essenbe said:

O/T but no I didn't have to. Put a usb thumb drive in, and any page in BIOS just press F12 and it puts a picture of that page on the USB drive. Useful if you OC and then use the tuner within windows.

That's sweet. Can't wait to get a board with that UEFI BIOS.

Anyway back on topic now.

What browser are you using? I just went there and the website wanted to install the add-on. I chose no since I don't own Nvidia anything.

Those hard drives may be going, especially if he can't read the SMART info and SMART is enabled in the BIOS.