If you want to subsequently change from the Microsoft Driver shown hereto the nForce IDE Driver you may end up with problems. When you try to manually integrate Drivers, Windows XP will confront you with the following error message: ''The Device can not be found''
In the Device Manager nothing has changed. This seems to be impossible at first glance. I have been testing this for a considerable time and have found a solution which is explained in the following steps illustrated with screenshots. Its not easy, but it does work.
We will start with the Microsoft IDE Driver, to which I changed to for the short term test: Delete the Standard-Second Channel-PCI-IDE....., marked below. Right click with the mouse and choose the Uninstall option.
After a short time considering and deleting Windows will request a restart. We will comply with this. After restarting we should see that windows has recognised new hardware on a Plug and Play basis and it will confront us with a message requesting another restart. This time we will click on ''NO'' and stay away from the Windows level.
Now we will go back to the Control Panel / Device Manager and observe that with the IDE entry something has changed. Instead of the previous 3 line entry there is now only one and with them we are working now.
As before we click on ''Driver Update'' '
Now choose the option ''Don't search", choose the driver to install by self and click next
Unclick the tick in the box ''Show compatible Hardware'' then click next
Choose ''Install from Disk'' and click ''Search''
Navigate with Windows Explorer into the Nvidia Folder using Explorer and choose 'inf' as the filetype. Select the file ''nvatabus'' and open it.
fter opening it a device will be suggested. We will accept this and click on next.
The Assistant answers with the dialog shown below. This one, we will now accept the prompt to restart and click on finish.
Windows XP displays a pop up window requesting a restart and to this we will click on yes !
After the restart we will again take a quick look at the Device Manager in the Control Panel and check the entry for the IDE Controller.
Take a look, only one device and suddenly its called NVIDIA nForce2 ATA Controller (v2.5) The driver is now installed and once again we have shown Windows XP who's the boss !
Driver Change done !
