Stuck in Low Res after GeForce 8400GS install to HP Pavilion a1305

[Secretsquirrel74]

Howdy,

I wanted to soup up my old a1305a Pavilion desktop (w/ Celeron 3.06GHz CPU,
ATI RC410 chipset) and added a low-level video card, the NVIDIA GeForce
8400GS.
Having followed the instructions re disabling the integrated video (an ATI
RADEON X200 Series), then changing the BIOS to have the PCIe x 16 as the
Primary Video, I turned off, installed the card and rebooted.

I now seem to be stuck in Low-Res hell. I have downloaded and installed the
most up-to-date driver for the 8400GS but Windows XP still won't let me
increase the res beyond 600 x 800 (16 colour).
The device manager is correctly showing the GeForce as the video adaptor and
no ATI drivers appear on the Add/Remove Software Manager.

Just for reference, I'm using an ACER 19" AL1913W monitor.

I have no idea where to go from here and any advice would be MUCH
appreciated. Thanks heaps.

SecretSquirrel

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Download the correct driver from the G-Force site.

Go to start/run, and type:
devmgmt.msc

Highlight the video adapter and click properties. On the Driver tab you can
click the "Update driver" button and choose the 'let me choose..." item, and
browse to the driver install files.

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[smlunatick]

Download the correct driver from the G-Force site.

Go to start/run, and type:
devmgmt.msc

Highlight the video adapter and click properties. On the Driver tab you can
click the "Update driver" button and choose the 'let me choose..." item, and
browse to the driver install files.

The driver downloads from www.nvidia.com comes in an auto-execute
package with run the setup.exe after.