nVIDIA FX5500

[ebrimac]

Vista won`t recognise the above card going to personalize reports it
as Default monitor on, this is driving me crazy

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP]

'default monitor' is not a reference to the video card.. monitors tend not
to require specific driver files anymore.. do not worry about it..

Vista won`t recognise the above card going to personalize reports it
as Default monitor on, this is driving me crazy

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[ebrimac]

'default monitor' is not a reference to the video card.. monitors tend not
to require specific driver files anymore.. do not worry about it..

Win xp can find the fx5500 in desktop properties but when you do the
same thing in vista it wont

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP]

What exactly does it say?

Win xp can find the fx5500 in desktop properties but when you do the
same thing in vista it wont

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[ebrimac]

What exactly does it say?

reports it
as Default monitor on, it is using the vga save driver

 

[FLBuilder]

Have you tried to update the drivers for it?

reports it
as Default monitor on, it is using the vga save driver

 

[ebrimac]

Have you tried to update the drivers for it?

vga save driver wont let me

 

[FLBuilder]

Try to delete it then reboot the machine. When it asks what you want to do
with the new device, let it search the net for the latest driver. Otherwise,
it may not be supported. You can check if it is by going to
www.windowsvista.com and looking under the compatability hardware list.

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP]

The VGA save driver takes over if attempts to install incorrect drivers are
made.. which driver version are you trying to install?

vga save driver wont let me

--


Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

 

[Paul Smith]

Vista won`t recognise the above card going to personalize reports it
as Default monitor on, this is driving me crazy

nVidia aren't currently "supporting" the 5xxx series of cards and as such
there is no video driver for them and Windows will use the generic VGA
driver.

What support there is, is left over from the beta stages of Vista, so have a
look around for the 9x.xx series of drivers. They're quite buggy, but will
"work" to some level until nVidia decide to start supporting them again
(their support pages infer they will do this once they've got the 6/7/8
cards working better). You may also need to force device manager to install
them.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[MeatWar]

Hi m8, just install this driver and you'll be ok, its similiar with the
Vista embeded driver but more stable and
more resources.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_96.85.html
Tested in Vista with FX5200, FX5500 and FX5900.
Tested games: Supremme Commander, Stalker, Titan Quest etc...

Cheers

 

[MeatWar]

Sry, i made a mistake, the tested driver was version 97.34, here:
www.station-drivers.com

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[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

You mention monitor drivers which is not really relevant for the video
card.
I have that card and it works well with Vista native drivers.

My guess is your card is bad or improperly seated.

 

[JW]

These drivers are esentially the same ones that are on the Vista DVD and are
what you should be using for a 5xxx card.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_96.85.html

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

"esentially the same"
But a lower version than native drivers on the DVD.

"what you should be using"
Why?

 

[JW]

The drivers on the DVD are the 96.86 drivers and I have not seen any
descriaption of what the difference is if any? Also see the following:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/vistaqualityassurance.html