Metspitzer said:
The card is a TNT2 from Creative Labs? It is marked ct6870. I can't
find a driver at Creative Labs.
I do find one at Nvidia, but when I try to run it, I get a message
that I don't have the hardware for the drivers.
Suggestions?
Support for that card probably stopped a while ago. For
example, my FX5200 doesn't have any recent drivers, and
I have to go back a bit to get one of the older drivers
to use. So I wouldn't expect a driver released today, to include
support for TNT2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_TNT2
For WinXP, I did a lookup on Nvidia, and I got 71.89 as the
last driver for TNT2. When I looked in the release notes, TNT
and TNT2 aren't in the table of GPUs supported.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_71.89.html
You could always verify the VEN and DEV coming from the
card, using a program like Everest, and verify it is
responding correctly.
http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids
10de nVidia Corporation
0028 NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro]
0029 NV5 [RIVA TNT2 Ultra]
Now, when I looked up CT6870, I seem to be getting
Creative Labs nVidia Riva TNT AGP Video Card 32M
and that would be something like
10de nVidia Corporation
0020 NV4 [RIVA TNT]
Pictures of the CT6870
http://www.kpsurplus.com/img/full/6eef2e0bd4a6ff1a7e66916a94665071e21dd728.JPG
http://www.kpsurplus.com/img/full/24b238bbdbffaef9fa25642810b80fd50aec87a0.JPG
Now, if I go back to a previous driver, like the 61.77 driver,
and look at the release notes for that one, the TNT/TNT2
are actually in the table on page 16.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_61.77
http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/...ics_Drivers_Release_Notes_Windows_XP-2000.pdf
If that was my card, I'd go backwards in time a bit, and try a
slightly older driver, like the 61.77 .
Paul
