Quote Originally Posted by slim142 View Post
I guess the RAM ICs make a lot of difference.

If I was you, I wouldnt be touching the nvidia drivers. Me for example, if I know I will NOT have time to uninstall/drive sweeper 2.0.5/restart/drive sweeper/install, then I prefer not to mess with them.
Also, whenever a new WHQL comes out, I like to wait a little to see if there is going to be a new revision (190.36->190.64 or something like that)

But most importantly, DO NOT mess with your nForce drivers, NEVER!.
I have had nightmares with it before. If you have the lastest version and is working, there is absolutely no reason to upgrade. Trust me, nforce becoming a pain in the @ss when it comes to upgrading/reinstalling.

I cant really help here since I dont have Vista but when those weird things happen you can try a complete reinstall and by this I mean uninstall your logitech, nforce, geforce (and anything you touched before the problem), use drive sweeper before/after restarting. Then use CCleaner to clean your registry and start again. If that doesnt fix it, I would say a clean install would be the best option (or go for an SSD and forget about that )

UPDATE: Btw, Prime95 25.11 Build 2 ran for 12 hours yesterday/today. If anybody needs my settings I will gladly post them. Im back to 3.6Ghz
Most of my issues early on with this board were caused by nforce drivers, namely the IDE driver, so I hear you. They were pretty bad when this board came out. Old nforce IDE drivers and even the new ones, have a bad habit of still working in the background even with newer versions installed. I suspect that was the cause for alot of peoples problems with the Striker II.

The only time I usually change my drivers is to solve a problem with a game or something. 190.36 was working fine, but I impulsively installed 190.64 and installed new logitech set point drivers for no reason:-P Everything works well, it's just that Superfetch is alot more active now for some unknown reason. Just thought maybe someone has experienced this before. Gonna switch to windows 7 soon anyways.

I use Driver Cleaner after uninstalling any drivers. Works pretty well I think. Which means: it's never screwed anything up.

What are your temps like with stock cooling?