ok, I had no problems with them.
 
thank god I downloaded them and kept them on my puter
 

The XP IDE drivers are supposedly FUBAR, it's all over nforcershq. I have my HDD on a seperate controller (w/ a Silicon Image Sil680 chipset) so they don't seem to be a problem but several people are having difficulties with them.
 
edit: The audio drivers are also a couple of revisions older than what was supposed to be included, like the IDE drivers that slipped through the nVidia QA net.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9639
 
http://www.nforcershq.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=637
 
Many folks have reported:
 
Memory performance dropped
More audio issues
Hard drive spinning up & down during reboot and random clicking noises
Driver uninstall OS death featur...err bug
 
Maybe a clean install would be better but I'll stick with the 2.03 until nvidia gets it's crap together.

I recently did a clean WinXP install and used the 2.41 drivers. I didn't install the Nvidia SW IDE driver (I never do anymore) becuase it won't let me burn in Nero. I haven't had any problems so far.

Quote:More audio issues

This would most likely be because version 3.37 of the audio driver was included in the pack instead of the 3.39 (IIRC) revision we were promised.

I can burn CD-RWs (I haven't tried CD-Rs yet mainly because I don't have any spare at present) in Nero and they seem to work alright although I did notice I can only read/write them at about a quarter of what my burner is capable of (12X Read/4X Write as opposed to the 48X Read and 12X ReWrite speeds it capable of) but I don't know whether that the media or the drivers.