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Legacy Video Card Support
I was installing Windows XP SP2 on my old Packard Bell PB 9601 with 3DFX
Voodoo 3 2000 TV-Out built-in graphics card. I was really disappointed by the "no support" Windows XP gives for this legacy graphics card. It doesn't even show up in Device Manager. There is no "Graphics Adapter" folder in Device Manager, nor any "Video Graphics Card" device in the "Sound, video and game controllers" folder. I right-click on desktop to go to display properties. It says my video adapter is some sort of vgasave or something. There is no buttons here to "Update/Upgrade Driver" nor any buttons to uninstall it. So I manually did "Add New Hardware" from control panel. I manually added 3DFX Voodoo 3 device. But it's not work, or it says it cannot be started. I did a search for +"Voodoo 3" +"2000" +"XP" +"driver" on google.com. There are million links to 3rd party drivers of my video card. However 99% are broken URLs from the driver collection websites. I manage to download 2 but they didn't even work after install. Please please can Microsoft have "generic" 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 video card drivers. Please. I beg of you. Thanks. |
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Kevin C. wrote:
I was installing Windows XP SP2 on my old Packard Bell PB 9601 with 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 TV-Out built-in graphics card. I was really disappointed by the "no support" Windows XP gives for this legacy graphics card. It doesn't even show up in Device Manager. There is no "Graphics Adapter" folder in Device Manager, nor any "Video Graphics Card" device in the "Sound, video and game controllers" folder. I right-click on desktop to go to display properties. It says my video adapter is some sort of vgasave or something. There is no buttons here to "Update/Upgrade Driver" nor any buttons to uninstall it. So I manually did "Add New Hardware" from control panel. I manually added 3DFX Voodoo 3 device. But it's not work, or it says it cannot be started. I did a search for +"Voodoo 3" +"2000" +"XP" +"driver" on google.com. There are million links to 3rd party drivers of my video card. However 99% are broken URLs from the driver collection websites. I manage to download 2 but they didn't even work after install. Please please can Microsoft have "generic" 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 video card drivers. Please. I beg of you. Thanks. You're surprised that there's no support for a 10 year old graphics card from a company that went bust about 7 years ago?! If you have a Voodoo 3, what's the rest of your system like? Is it even capable of running XP? Microsoft only supplies drivers in its operating systems when the manufacturers provide them. As 3dfx is dead, the cannot supply anyone with drivers. Contrary to popular belief, MS do *NOT* develop drivers for other manufacturers' hardware. I suggest you either ditch the card or, preferably, your entire system as putting a new card in an ancient system will cause a huge bottleneck. |
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The Packard Bell is a P3 600MHz with 192MB RAM. The Voodoo 3 video card is
built into the motherboard. P3 600MHz runs Windows XP SP2 fine. No slow downs. It runs as smooth as my other PC which is a P4 1.7GHz and my laptop P4 1.4GHz. Voodoo 3 came out in 2000. 3DFX went out of business in 2002. 3DFX first appeared in 1996. "Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message ... Kevin C. wrote: I was installing Windows XP SP2 on my old Packard Bell PB 9601 with 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 TV-Out built-in graphics card. I was really disappointed by the "no support" Windows XP gives for this legacy graphics card. It doesn't even show up in Device Manager. There is no "Graphics Adapter" folder in Device Manager, nor any "Video Graphics Card" device in the "Sound, video and game controllers" folder. I right-click on desktop to go to display properties. It says my video adapter is some sort of vgasave or something. There is no buttons here to "Update/Upgrade Driver" nor any buttons to uninstall it. So I manually did "Add New Hardware" from control panel. I manually added 3DFX Voodoo 3 device. But it's not work, or it says it cannot be started. I did a search for +"Voodoo 3" +"2000" +"XP" +"driver" on google.com. There are million links to 3rd party drivers of my video card. However 99% are broken URLs from the driver collection websites. I manage to download 2 but they didn't even work after install. Please please can Microsoft have "generic" 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 video card drivers. Please. I beg of you. Thanks. You're surprised that there's no support for a 10 year old graphics card from a company that went bust about 7 years ago?! If you have a Voodoo 3, what's the rest of your system like? Is it even capable of running XP? Microsoft only supplies drivers in its operating systems when the manufacturers provide them. As 3dfx is dead, the cannot supply anyone with drivers. Contrary to popular belief, MS do *NOT* develop drivers for other manufacturers' hardware. I suggest you either ditch the card or, preferably, your entire system as putting a new card in an ancient system will cause a huge bottleneck. |
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Kevin;
Hardware manufacturers and not Microsoft are responsible for drivers. The drivers Microsoft distributes are provided by the hardware manufacturer. You could try he http://www.voodoofiles.com/ If they are no help, it may be time to replace the antiquated card since the manufacturer no longer exists. As long as you have an open PCI slot, there are many cards available. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org "Kevin C." wrote in message ... I was installing Windows XP SP2 on my old Packard Bell PB 9601 with 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 TV-Out built-in graphics card. I was really disappointed by the "no support" Windows XP gives for this legacy graphics card. It doesn't even show up in Device Manager. There is no "Graphics Adapter" folder in Device Manager, nor any "Video Graphics Card" device in the "Sound, video and game controllers" folder. I right-click on desktop to go to display properties. It says my video adapter is some sort of vgasave or something. There is no buttons here to "Update/Upgrade Driver" nor any buttons to uninstall it. So I manually did "Add New Hardware" from control panel. I manually added 3DFX Voodoo 3 device. But it's not work, or it says it cannot be started. I did a search for +"Voodoo 3" +"2000" +"XP" +"driver" on google.com. There are million links to 3rd party drivers of my video card. However 99% are broken URLs from the driver collection websites. I manage to download 2 but they didn't even work after install. Please please can Microsoft have "generic" 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 video card drivers. Please. I beg of you. Thanks. |
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Try this Kevin http://list.driverguide.com/list/company3/index.html maybe
you will find some. Gunilla "Kevin C." skrev i meddelandet ... I was installing Windows XP SP2 on my old Packard Bell PB 9601 with 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 TV-Out built-in graphics card. I was really disappointed by the "no support" Windows XP gives for this legacy graphics card. It doesn't even show up in Device Manager. There is no "Graphics Adapter" folder in Device Manager, nor any "Video Graphics Card" device in the "Sound, video and game controllers" folder. I right-click on desktop to go to display properties. It says my video adapter is some sort of vgasave or something. There is no buttons here to "Update/Upgrade Driver" nor any buttons to uninstall it. So I manually did "Add New Hardware" from control panel. I manually added 3DFX Voodoo 3 device. But it's not work, or it says it cannot be started. I did a search for +"Voodoo 3" +"2000" +"XP" +"driver" on google.com. There are million links to 3rd party drivers of my video card. However 99% are broken URLs from the driver collection websites. I manage to download 2 but they didn't even work after install. Please please can Microsoft have "generic" 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 video card drivers. Please. I beg of you. Thanks. |
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Don't listen to the tick, it's a troll that has no clue at all. I have a
similar machine that runs xp fine, no problems. Go to ebay and get a cheap card for ten or fifteen bucks. "Kevin C." wrote in message ... The Packard Bell is a P3 600MHz with 192MB RAM. The Voodoo 3 video card is built into the motherboard. P3 600MHz runs Windows XP SP2 fine. No slow downs. It runs as smooth as my other PC which is a P4 1.7GHz and my laptop P4 1.4GHz. Voodoo 3 came out in 2000. 3DFX went out of business in 2002. 3DFX first appeared in 1996. "Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message ... Kevin C. wrote: I was installing Windows XP SP2 on my old Packard Bell PB 9601 with 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 TV-Out built-in graphics card. I was really disappointed by the "no support" Windows XP gives for this legacy graphics card. It doesn't even show up in Device Manager. There is no "Graphics Adapter" folder in Device Manager, nor any "Video Graphics Card" device in the "Sound, video and game controllers" folder. I right-click on desktop to go to display properties. It says my video adapter is some sort of vgasave or something. There is no buttons here to "Update/Upgrade Driver" nor any buttons to uninstall it. So I manually did "Add New Hardware" from control panel. I manually added 3DFX Voodoo 3 device. But it's not work, or it says it cannot be started. I did a search for +"Voodoo 3" +"2000" +"XP" +"driver" on google.com. There are million links to 3rd party drivers of my video card. However 99% are broken URLs from the driver collection websites. I manage to download 2 but they didn't even work after install. Please please can Microsoft have "generic" 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 video card drivers. Please. I beg of you. Thanks. You're surprised that there's no support for a 10 year old graphics card from a company that went bust about 7 years ago?! If you have a Voodoo 3, what's the rest of your system like? Is it even capable of running XP? Microsoft only supplies drivers in its operating systems when the manufacturers provide them. As 3dfx is dead, the cannot supply anyone with drivers. Contrary to popular belief, MS do *NOT* develop drivers for other manufacturers' hardware. I suggest you either ditch the card or, preferably, your entire system as putting a new card in an ancient system will cause a huge bottleneck. |
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STFU. you have no idea what your talking about.
"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message ... Kevin C. wrote: I was installing Windows XP SP2 on my old Packard Bell PB 9601 with 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 TV-Out built-in graphics card. I was really disappointed by the "no support" Windows XP gives for this legacy graphics card. It doesn't even show up in Device Manager. There is no "Graphics Adapter" folder in Device Manager, nor any "Video Graphics Card" device in the "Sound, video and game controllers" folder. I right-click on desktop to go to display properties. It says my video adapter is some sort of vgasave or something. There is no buttons here to "Update/Upgrade Driver" nor any buttons to uninstall it. So I manually did "Add New Hardware" from control panel. I manually added 3DFX Voodoo 3 device. But it's not work, or it says it cannot be started. I did a search for +"Voodoo 3" +"2000" +"XP" +"driver" on google.com. There are million links to 3rd party drivers of my video card. However 99% are broken URLs from the driver collection websites. I manage to download 2 but they didn't even work after install. Please please can Microsoft have "generic" 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 video card drivers. Please. I beg of you. Thanks. You're surprised that there's no support for a 10 year old graphics card from a company that went bust about 7 years ago?! If you have a Voodoo 3, what's the rest of your system like? Is it even capable of running XP? Microsoft only supplies drivers in its operating systems when the manufacturers provide them. As 3dfx is dead, the cannot supply anyone with drivers. Contrary to popular belief, MS do *NOT* develop drivers for other manufacturers' hardware. I suggest you either ditch the card or, preferably, your entire system as putting a new card in an ancient system will cause a huge bottleneck. |
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"Kevin C." wrote in message
... I was installing Windows XP SP2 on my old Packard Bell PB 9601 with 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 TV-Out built-in graphics card. I was really disappointed by the "no support" Windows XP gives for this legacy graphics card. It doesn't even show up in Device Manager. There is no "Graphics Adapter" folder in Device Manager, nor any "Video Graphics Card" device in the "Sound, video and game controllers" folder. I right-click on desktop to go to display properties. It says my video adapter is some sort of vgasave or something. There is no buttons here to "Update/Upgrade Driver" nor any buttons to uninstall it. So I manually did "Add New Hardware" from control panel. I manually added 3DFX Voodoo 3 device. But it's not work, or it says it cannot be started. I did a search for +"Voodoo 3" +"2000" +"XP" +"driver" on google.com. There are million links to 3rd party drivers of my video card. However 99% are broken URLs from the driver collection websites. I manage to download 2 but they didn't even work after install. Please please can Microsoft have "generic" 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 video card drivers. Please. I beg of you. Thanks. Try some of the drivers found here http://www.voodoofiles.com/3dfxhelp.asp or here http://drivers.soft32.com/driver/dow...o_3-23704.html or here http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRA...vers-v10.shtml I don't have a voodoo card so I can't test them but all the links were valid downloads. Kerry |
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