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little nvidia help

  • 03-07-2005 10:56PM
    #1
    Dark_Knight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭


    Oh joy, oh joy my hp has me driven up the wall. Problem is i know my graphics card is a g force fx 128 meg (sorry forget the exact model) anyway due to a nasty virus i had to reformat. I had lost my drivers disk but got what i needed form the HP website. I went to download from nvidia.com the latest drivers for my card but it would not let me install them. says not compatible. I went into my device manager and wanted to check the card, but now there is no display heading in the divice manager.

    Anyone have any idea what i might do :confused:


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  • #2
    angelofdeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭angelofdeath


    are you sure it wont let you install these drivers? pop the case off and have a look at the card for the exact model

    heres a list of older drivers, if you want to try older ones


  • #3
    po0k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,817 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    Why not try getting drivers off the HP site?

    The PCI Vendor ID could be outside the 'official' nVidia listings especially since HP is an OEM vendor.


  • #4
    DemonOfTheFall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭DemonOfTheFall


    Check the driver archive page like angel of death said. They're slowly killing support for older cards from their new releases. The latest ones wont even work on Geforce 2 GTSes anymore


  • #5
    airetam_storm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭airetam_storm


    DemonOfTheFall wrote:
    Check the driver archive page like angel of death said. They're slowly killing support for older cards from their new releases. The latest ones wont even work on Geforce 2 GTSes anymore
    What do you mean even the GF2GTS? Its getting on a bit now dontyathink?:p Well i suppose it was a beast back in its day :o


  • #6
    DemonOfTheFall
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,279 ✭✭✭DemonOfTheFall


    It's not that old a card though, on an Athlon 1200mhz it's not much slower than a FX5200 ( Due to processing overheads ). I know that it has to drop a few DX levels compared to the FX card, but the FX is ****e at DX9 anyway. So not that useless.

    Ah the good old days when that GTS was the dog's balls


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  • #7
    djmarkus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭djmarkus


    I remember the day when my 12meg voodoo2 was the dog's balls, i payed over 200 pounds punt for that thing!


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