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NVIDIA 7300GT Drivers won't work in XP Pro ( at least for me)
Hello all,
The latest video drivers for the 7300GT card from Nvidia will not install on my and others machines.The first thing I did was log into the Nvidia forum and found others with similiar problems but no solutions. Initially the driver appeared that it was loaded and going to work but when I went to reboot the machine it was using the default VGA driver. Looking in Device Manager I couldn't even SEE that the card was there, tried to use the "Install new Hardware" and Nvidia wasn't there either. I didn't know how to get XP Pro to see that card. I eventually used System Restore and that solved my problem for the moment. Iam back to where I was. I then found some drivers, newer than what I had and installed those, but they still aren't the newest ones and it looks like there won't be any new ones anytime soon. I was curious to know if anyone in this forum had a similiar miserable experience with Nvidia and their lack of support. I wanted to update the drivers thinking it might help my machine from not waking up from S3 standby. Maybe I should have let the machine look on the 'net for drivers, they might not have been as fancy but they might have worked! Thank you all in advance, Tinsby |
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NVIDIA 7300GT Drivers won't work in XP Pro ( at least for me)
Tinsby wrote:
Hello all, The latest video drivers for the 7300GT card from Nvidia will not install on my and others machines.The first thing I did was log into the Nvidia forum and found others with similiar problems but no solutions. Initially the driver appeared that it was loaded and going to work but when I went to reboot the machine it was using the default VGA driver. Looking in Device Manager I couldn't even SEE that the card was there, tried to use the "Install new Hardware" and Nvidia wasn't there either. I didn't know how to get XP Pro to see that card. I eventually used System Restore and that solved my problem for the moment. Iam back to where I was. I then found some drivers, newer than what I had and installed those, but they still aren't the newest ones and it looks like there won't be any new ones anytime soon. I was curious to know if anyone in this forum had a similiar miserable experience with Nvidia and their lack of support. I wanted to update the drivers thinking it might help my machine from not waking up from S3 standby. Maybe I should have let the machine look on the 'net for drivers, they might not have been as fancy but they might have worked! Thank you all in advance, Tinsby =================================== FWIW...it's best to uninstall the current nVidia driver and reboot the machine before installing updated drivers. And...of course...it's important to create a System Restore point before you begin. Best practice is to download the driver to your hard drive and install from there. To install the driver just double left click it and it will install. And...never allow Windows to search the net for drivers. Just wondering...is the following driver the one you downloaded and installed? GeForce Release 182 http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_182.50_whql.html There are install hints on the nVidia site: http://www.nvidia.com/object/driver_...ion_hints.html Maybe the following article will offer some ideas about Standby: (907477) How to troubleshoot hibernation and standby issues in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907477 Good luck... -- John Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk |
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