For those of you who havent noticed microsoft has newer drivers for the primary/secondary ide controller and the raid drivers!(Just go do a windoze update and look under hardware. )

and

Broadcom has a newer driver on their site for the net extreme ethernet nic used on the 2885 boards which can be found here

http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php' ">http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php


yeh progress is being made.


ps. choose the 57xx drivers since that is what is on the board!

yep.... but AMD too.
If you visit the site, you will find new drivers than those packed with the motherboard.

But I would like to say that I had some troubles when uninstalling the old amd driver pack and installing the new one.
I have 2 win xp pro systems installed, one on a sata drive, the other on an ide.
The win on sata worked perfect after installing the newer amd driver pack.
The win on ide crashed after installing the newer amd driver pack, I don't know why. The process was the same. I had to format and install again the system.

After installing the new win on the ide drive, I installed the newer amd driver pack and everything was perfect.

The problem only happened to me when trying to update (unisntall, reboot, install) the driver pack.

After all of this, I went to windows update, and microsoft also said that a newer controller was available.....so I updated it too.
Everything is perfect now on my system although there is no noticeable performance improvement, at least working as I usually do.

ah crap!

I thought I had installed those drivers......... I checked revisions in my device manager and it turns out windoze plugged in the old ones instead!

How do you tell windoze to use the newer ones?