rjohnson11

The method that I gave makes sure that the sound and 3D are never installed in the first place if that is really what you want to do.

Helmutcheese gave a good method as well but I've seen some people still mess things up when attempting his method because they have problems following those directions.

Whether you decide to follow Helmutcheese's method, the original poster, or my own method one of them should work for you.

 
This thread rocks.  I am not having any IRQ or freezing issues but would probably use your Winrar method if I did in the future.  I only have one question regarding it.  Does the fact that you are not installing 3D Vision mean 2D surround would also not work as well.  Would the 2D Surround function be disabled in the nVidia control panel?

My question is if I have disabled onboard sound and using an HDMI cable for all of it, will I still run into these issues? My dog chewed my dvi cable up last weekend and that is what I had available to me at the time. I haven't had any issues so far, it even seems a bit snappier in the resolution department and the sound is a little clearer too. My only complaint is that now I am going to have to get a USB headset because my old one won't work.

Should I be doing this even though I am not using integrated sound? Currently using Xonar DX

jeffmd

Irq conflicts should be a thing of the pass. With a modern OS and computer, it is not only normal, but expected that irq's be shared. They shouldn't have any trouble doing so.

I actually have a soundblaster x-fi, but decided to install the nvidia onboard drivers so I could utilise it to power an ear piece for ventrilo. That way ventrilo chat comes over the headphone jack I have and game sound and microphone are handled by the sound blaster. Works like a charm!

should be, but in some cases aren't. in the cases where they aren't its usually poorly written driver/driver service.

microsoft isn't the issue here.  part of the problem is hardware itself that doesn't adhere to the PCI spec, which is aft the case with Creative APU's.

nvidia gpu's generally share nicely with sata, usb, and host clock, but depends on the mainboard really.

its usually best for the gfx card to have its own isolated IRQ though. however every IRQ past 15 is virtual anyway and this itself can be the cause of IRQ issues.

back on the agp days, this was true, these days the irq's are propery marked in mainboard manual's and the only(or lowest) pci slot should only share with onboard pci devices,  of course, i mean old school pci, pci-e's trickier as the placement of the 1x/4x slots can screw up resource manipulation.

my prelude shares with my usb host, but i get no audio issues from it.

have to say that video drivers seem to handle virtualised IRQ steering properly most of the time so IRQ's over 16 tend to be fine.  my primary slot assigns IRQ 24 with no sharing.  this could be a windows 7 thing though since it supports ACPI/APIC better than vista and assigns the irq's through to >150.

Great thread!  Thanks guys I was having IRQ BSOD issues.

I'll be getting rid of these annoying drivers, thanks so much for the posts!

Hopefully this thread will be on top so i don't have to go digging through it after I get off of work, someone bump it at 5pm for me :p

kingofsorrow

Next time I will be installing the drivers I will be installing them without those numerous audio drivers.

Hopefully Nvidia will build in a custom install feature to let us decide what we want to install I.E.:
soundrivers, 3d drivers, Physx ect..

Am I missing something? No place to DL "driver cleaner"? The ones I found are like 2 years old?    Driver sweeper alone doesn't work for this?

all the info in this post will help you solve any conflicts and it will help you get a clean start

they allow sound to pass through the hdmi port on the VGA.  This can cause irq conflicts with your onboard sound card and 9 times out of 10 usually does. It leads to among other things: poor/under performance, BSOD's, System stability issues, and many other annoying things. many people have expressed issues with them and when they disabled/uninstalled them.  alot of the problems they were experiencing went away

HeavyHemi

dunkinkid22

they allow sound to pass through the hdmi port on the VGA.  This can cause irq conflicts with your onboard sound card and 9 times out of 10 usually does. It leads to among other things: poor/under performance, BSOD's, System stability issues, and many other annoying things. many people have expressed issues with them and when they disabled/uninstalled them.  alot of the problems they were experiencing went away

Nonsense. The vast majority of users don't have issues.  Also it's not simply a pass through.

i think alot of people would beg to differ
 

Cannot comment as on 200 series for that !

new drivers monday