I got my new 680i SLI mobo in a few days ago, and the drivers have been nothing but headaches. I went through the PC Gamer steps to replace your mobo without re-installing Windows, and I think that's contributing to this crap, but seriously, these drivers are crap. Specifically, the driver for the nVidia SMBus.
First, what is the SMBus? My mobo manual is on a CD, and I haven't read it all, and I'd like to know what exactly it does. I imagine it's something to do with the internet, because I can't connect, even though I have the ethernet drivers installed.
Second, are there any driver updates for these nVidia products? I downloaded one from the eVGA website, and it turned out to be a "Display Driver" even though it was in the 680i section. WTF? I went to nVidias website, and I started downloading another, but it has the same exact name, so I'm not keeping my hopes up.
Every time I try to boot XP with the drivers freshly installed, it doesn't boot, restarts, and goes to the "Safe Mode... Safe Mode with Networking... " screen. I do "Last Know Good Configuration" and that's before the SMBus driver was installed. I flashed a new BIOS, hoping that might help, but it didn't.
Thanks in advance guys.