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DriverPacks BASE and DriverPack MassStorage 10.06 Released

Posted on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 21:29 by OverFlow

Check the download pages for changelogs...

Mass http://driverpacks.net/driverpacks/wind … rage/10.06

BASE http://driverpacks.net/applications/dri … base/10.06

Many thanks to Erik and the entire testing team.
Thanks to the translation team, several updates submited and two new languages added, Korean and Chinese-(Taiwan)

Please take a good look at the 'update checker' page, there was LOTS of changes including the ability to see the change log from BASE and an MD5 checksum routine to detect a bad download.

Thanks Guys!
You make this...
A) Worth doing.
B) Possible to get done!

Jeff

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New NT5 DriverPack releases

Posted on Mon, 05/31/2010 - 18:09 by mr_smartepants

We've updated nearly all of the Windows 2000/XP/2003 DriverPacks this month. Many of the 3rd Party DriverPacks were also updated.
The only packs not ready are Mass Storage and both Sound DriverPacks.
The Mass Storage DriverPack is ALMOST ready for release. But not quite.
Also noteworthy is a major update to DriverPacks BASE to version 10 is imminent.

Please update your downloaded packs.
Stay tuned...

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New Nvidia driver package on tap for May 24

Posted on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 10:38 by mr_smartepants

http://blogs.nvidia.com/ntersect/2010/0 … eline.html

Looks like Nvidia is poised to release their newest "Unified" driver package on or about 24 May.
This new 256.*.* series driver branch is supposed to bring together combined support for all desktop and notebook graphics but this is unconfirmed.
For now the only confirmed support is for improved performance on only GTX400 series GPUs and new SLI controls. (yay)

Nvidia :
Our first 256 based driver is planned to post to nvidia.com on May 24th and will enable new SLI setup controls and improve performance on several key applications for GTX 400 GPUs.

Many GTX 400 series owners are very upset at having purchased these graphics cards that cannot do all the features advertised on the box (ie, multi-screen surround). Having to wait until a future (June?) driver release only makes things worse for them.
As always, the team at DriverPacks will heavily test these new drivers whenever they get released and will only incorporate them IF they pass our rigorous testing.

Stability before Currency.

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April Fools!

Posted on Thu, 04/01/2010 - 23:53 by mr_smartepants

So who had the best April Fool's joke this year?
I used the classic "Who broke my monitor?!?" joke.

(link courtesy of HardOCP.com)
My daughters fall for it every year! ;)
Let's hear from you. What pranks did you pull on this very special day?

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Nvidia 196.75 Drivers pulled due to potential hardware damage.

Posted on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 11:01 by mr_smartepants

WARNING! Nvidia 196.75 drivers pulled due to hardware damage!
**Update**
Nvidia has released 197.13 WHQL drivers that resolves the fan-speed bug.
As a reminder, we at DriverPacks.net do NOT include beta or testing drivers in our release DriverPacks.

Nvidia :
NVIDIA is aware that some customers have reported fan speed issues after installing 196.75 drivers from NVIDIA's website. These drivers have been removed from NVIDIA's website due to these customer reports. We have also asked all partners to remove this driver. We recommend that all customers immediately discontinue the use of 196.75 drivers and roll back to their previous driver. Driver roll back help can be found here. For those that have experienced fan speed issues with 196.75 drivers, NVIDIA has setup this feedback site

This problem does NOT affect the current DriverPacks. However, development of the Graphics nightly test packs has halted on the recent news from Nvidia.
I want to reassure our users that NONE of the current DriverPacks contain any of these faulty drivers from Nvidia.
However, if you have upgraded any of your systems to use the Nvidia 196.75 drivers for any GeForce/ION/Quadro platforms, please uninstall those drivers immediately and revert to an older driver for your respective hardware until an appropriate fix can be made.

Please make any replies to the Official Nvidia forum thread: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=161503
Or to this Nvidia feedback site

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