Networking with nVidia 680i SLI and NetGear Wireless Adapter
I installed Windows 7 and found out that the motherboard and wireless drivers for the nVidia 680i SLI and NetGear Wireless Adapter weren't included with the install. 1. I had the wireles adapter plugged in and although Windows found it, it had no driver. I downloaded the Windows 7 motherboard drivers and had no issues when I installed the software. I was then able to install the wireless adapter software which kind of worked but there were issues getting it to connect. I had to force the system to prompt me to ask for the WEP keycode.2. I hope that nVidia and NetGear get their drivers and software to Microsoft for the launch of Windows 7. I hope that if this is the case and when I next try to install Windows 7, the motherboard drivers get installed first followed by the wireless drivers and then, the system automatically tries to connect to my wireless network.OS: Windows Vista 32 w/SP1 CPU: Intel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs) RAM: 2046MB RAM GPU: GeForce GTX 260 SND: Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro HDD: 80GB
June 4th, 2009 10:53pm

Hello Auutumn,Have you tried the driver versions available for Windows Vista for the above devices?
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June 5th, 2009 12:00am

I did. The motherboard and graphics drivers (for Vista) installed yet unlike in Vista, I was never prompted to restart my PC. After getting my wireless adapter working (flawlessly), I used Windows Update then restarted my PC. I had a lot of problems with Windows applicaions not working soI had my PC do a chkdsk upon restarting and found that there were a lot of index descriptor issues on that partition. When I created my partition using Acronis Disk Director, I just installed Windows 7 onto the partition so I don't know if this and/or the updates could have caused my issues. Later, I used Disk Director to format the partition and when I was installing Windows 7, I used it's built-in tool to format the partition, just in case. This time I tried the nVidia drivers; only the graphics driver required a restart. This time it took more time and energy to get Windows/the wireless adapter to prompt me for the WEP key and still my internet connection was limited.OS: Windows Vista 32 w/SP1 CPU: Intel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs) RAM: 2046MB RAM GPU: GeForce GTX 260 SND: Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro HDD: 80GB
June 5th, 2009 12:21am

Is there any way you can use WPA instead? It seems that Windows 7 restricts what you can do with WEP.
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June 16th, 2009 7:25pm

I decided to wipe my Windows 7 partition and try again only this time using my Vista motherboard driver and guess what, it all worked. My internet connection was a bit slow but after patching Windows, thing got back to normal.I still hope that by launch, nVidia and NetGear have the appropiate drivers for my and every other motherboard/wireless adapter out there...I don;t like doing work arounds with my OS.OS: Windows Vista 32 w/SP1 CPU: Intel Core 2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs) RAM: 2046MB RAM GPU: GeForce GTX 260 SND: Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro HDD: 80GB
June 16th, 2009 8:33pm

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