Just got an email from Eli Nudler @ HWzone that he's got something very special for all you peeps out there.

NEW Nvidia Detonators 27.42 for Windows 98/ME/2K/XP! Local downloads added. Post your comments in our forums.

Anonymous Writes: There's a new directory in the Gainward's FTP /27.30/! here Now available from Gainward Detonators 27.30 9x/ME, seems Multilingual it's a 10,5Mb File And new 27.20 Detonators 11Mb File Uploaded Today!!! Click on Read More... For direct downloads!

Highpoint-Tech has an updated driver & BIOS as well as their RAID Administrator Software available! New: * Performance improved
* Fix BIOS compatibility issue with Adaptec SCSI
* Show capacity by 1G=1,000,000,000 Bytes
* Fix BIOS bug "drive capacity incorrect after deleting a broken array"
Download driver & BIOS 2.31 Download RAID administrator software 2.31

Ok folks, it's Degger*s birthday today so this will be my last post for now. I've found some new beta drivers for you. The files are dated 16.01.2002 and the version are: Windows XP 6.13.10.6022 Windows 2000 5.13.10.6022 Did I mention these already have R300 support? No words on issues or performance yet. Maybe these are close to the WHQL release expected for release on February 15th.

Gainward is the first manufacturer to officially release Nvidia Detonator Driver 27.20 for Windows2K!

If you check in our download section for Detonator Driver 27.20 for Windows 2K, the file size is 3.54mb and Gainward's is 7.33mb.

Well Gainward have pulled theses drivers from their FTP server now! So you're out of luck but wait I had an email from an old mate: He tells me he has found Nvidia Detonator Driver 27.80 for Windows 98/Me/2K/XP on a manufacturers FTP server but they are password protected @ the moment. But he's working! LOL so stay tuned.

Update: still waiting so be patient please.

I saw this @ Station Drivers
Maybe this is handy for people who don't know english very well. And as always
TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK! Click on Read More... for direct download link.

I surfed to the VIAArena to see what has changed and this is what they said: This patch, for all Microsoft Operating Systems, will increase the burst rate with the following RAID controller chips: Adapttech, Acard, Highpoint and Promise. This may not be noticeable in overall Hard Disk performance benchmarks as burst rate is not measured separately and only makes up a small percentage of Hard Disk performance. This patch can be used on all VIA chipsets. The driver in this zip file is the viapfd.sys version 1.05. This file was last updated on 7 February 2002. The change from the previous version is that it fixes an error message that would sometimes appear in the event viewer. Click on Read More... for direct download links.

MSI have released a new Digital Video Broadcasting Tuner card driver.

No word on whats new yet

Anonymous Writes: Detonator 27.30 for W2K/XP is out!
The Anonymous found it @ Media Xplosion.net Finally it's out for W2K/XP too. This driver is BAD for most people so, TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK. Click on Read More... for direct download link!

Gainward is the first manufacturer to officially release Nvidia Detonator Driver 27.20 for Windows2K!

If you check in our download section for Detonator Driver 27.20 for Windows 2K, the file size is 3.54mb and Gainward's is 7.33mb.

So if you want to give them a whirl hit read more.

Special gift for all Intel users today: Intel Chipset Driver v3.30.1010 for W9x/ME/2K/XP - (multilanguage). Supported Chipsets: (810/815/820/830/840/845/850/860) + Intel FWH (i82802); (430TX/440EX/440LX/440ZX/440BX/440DX/440MX) Older Chipsets are already supported by Operating System No further information available yet.

MSI have released a new Sigmatel sound driver v9721 for MSI Intel 815/815E/815EP based motherboards. Dated 01 / 28 / 2002.

Creative Labs Europe has a 19 MB software update available for all SB Live! users. Read more for the full scoop.

It appears that it will be Windows 9x/ME users that will get to play with the latest set of nVidia drivers first this time, as opposed to Win2k/XP users when previous 27.xx drivers have leaked.
I've been informed that 27.30 nVidia beta drivers have just appeared on-line for Windows 9x/ME only at this time. The driver is dated 19/01/2002 (19th January 2002), apart from the NVCPL.dll file in the set (the control pannel) - which comes from the 27.20 driver set. Grab the drivers over here.

Just got word from Mark @ Maxreboot that there are new ATI Radeon Drivers for the following ATI Radeon Cards 7200 / 7000 / VE / 7500 /8500 . The drivers origin is 3rd party manufacturer Sapphire.

Here's the scoop:

Some new ATi Radeon Beta drivers have just been posted. These are not the drivers released by ATi ealier this week! These are newer and some users report them as being faster.

Intel have released new VGA drivers for Intel's 830M and Intel® 830MG chipset Version 10.2.1.

Official link for VIA RAID Performance Patch 1.04!

The file is dated 29/01/2002

This package is meant for users with existing PlayCenter 2 (v2.00 to v2.52) to upgrade it to PlayCenter 2 v2.52.17 and includes the following : - - Creative PlayCenter 2 v2.52.17

Rage3d.com after a late nite assault on ATI ftp server they managed to get away with new ATI Radeon Beta Drivers but they lost one of the newsposter, so they have a opening if anyone's interested!!!!

Hit read more for your Download.

Update: here's the read me file for this driver release!

Nero have released a new ASPI Driver v2.0.1.43 for for Windows NT/2000/XP! :D

Update: We now have two mirrors set-up for you too download from