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Driver for Geoforce MX?
My 10 year old XP PC, now used in my shed, crashed recently and I've just
re-installed Windows XP. Could someone please advise what driver I need for my graphics card, which is a "64 MB Nvidia Geoforce MX"? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Driver for Geoforce MX?
"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message ... My 10 year old XP PC, now used in my shed, crashed recently and I've just re-installed Windows XP. Could someone please advise what driver I need for my graphics card, which is a "64 MB Nvidia Geoforce MX"? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK All he http://www.geforce.com/drivers Chris |
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Driver for Geoforce MX?
On 06/06/2013 10:26 AM, Terry Pinnell wrote:
My 10 year old XP PC, now used in my shed, crashed recently and I've just re-installed Windows XP. Could someone please advise what driver I need for my graphics card, which is a "64 MB Nvidia Geoforce MX"? On the NVidia site, the trick is to select "legacy" as the card type. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71_2.html Version: 93.71 WHQL Release Date: November 2, 2006 Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, Media Center Edition Language: U.S. English File Size: 40.5 MB You also need a chipset driver, for the AGP slot. Names for the driver would be 4in1 or Hyperion. http://www.viaarena.com/ViaDisplayDr...0& lang=en-GB Version 5.24A of the Hyperion Pro drivers includes the following components: INF V3.10A AGP V4.60A V-RAID V5.80 RAID Tools v5.85 VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2.80A And lastly, some version of DirectX 9c. Due to the age of the hardware, it is possible some version of these is already present. Paul |
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Driver for Geoforce MX?
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On 06/06/2013 10:26 AM, Terry Pinnell wrote: My 10 year old XP PC, now used in my shed, crashed recently and I've just re-installed Windows XP. Could someone please advise what driver I need for my graphics card, which is a "64 MB Nvidia Geoforce MX"? On the NVidia site, the trick is to select "legacy" as the card type. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71_2.html Version: 93.71 WHQL Release Date: November 2, 2006 Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, Media Center Edition Language: U.S. English File Size: 40.5 MB You also need a chipset driver, for the AGP slot. Names for the driver would be 4in1 or Hyperion. http://www.viaarena.com/ViaDisplayDr...0& lang=en-GB Version 5.24A of the Hyperion Pro drivers includes the following components: INF V3.10A AGP V4.60A V-RAID V5.80 RAID Tools v5.85 VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2.80A And lastly, some version of DirectX 9c. Due to the age of the hardware, it is possible some version of these is already present. Paul Thanks a bunch, Paul, that's very helpful. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Paul wrote:
On 06/06/2013 10:26 AM, Terry Pinnell wrote: My 10 year old XP PC, now used in my shed, crashed recently and I've just re-installed Windows XP. Could someone please advise what driver I need for my graphics card, which is a "64 MB Nvidia Geoforce MX"? On the NVidia site, the trick is to select "legacy" as the card type. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71_2.html Version: 93.71 WHQL Release Date: November 2, 2006 Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, Media Center Edition Language: U.S. English File Size: 40.5 MB You also need a chipset driver, for the AGP slot. Names for the driver would be 4in1 or Hyperion. http://www.viaarena.com/ViaDisplayDr...0& lang=en-GB Version 5.24A of the Hyperion Pro drivers includes the following components: INF V3.10A AGP V4.60A V-RAID V5.80 RAID Tools v5.85 VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2.80A And lastly, some version of DirectX 9c. Due to the age of the hardware, it is possible some version of these is already present. Paul I screwed up. You have A7A266-E and an ALI chipset, not VIA. I don't know where I got that idea. For ALI, you're pretty well stuck with whatever Asus offered (might be too hard to track down a file from the original source). There is ALi AGP miniport driver 1.90 English here, from 2002.07.10. An AGP driver, helps satisfy the video card driver, when it expected to be talking to an AGP driver. http://support.asus.com/Download.asp...266-E&p=1&s=10 If you try to install the VIA Hyperion, it should refuse it... Paul |
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Paul wrote: On 06/06/2013 10:26 AM, Terry Pinnell wrote: My 10 year old XP PC, now used in my shed, crashed recently and I've just re-installed Windows XP. Could someone please advise what driver I need for my graphics card, which is a "64 MB Nvidia Geoforce MX"? On the NVidia site, the trick is to select "legacy" as the card type. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71_2.html Version: 93.71 WHQL Release Date: November 2, 2006 Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, Media Center Edition Language: U.S. English File Size: 40.5 MB You also need a chipset driver, for the AGP slot. Names for the driver would be 4in1 or Hyperion. http://www.viaarena.com/ViaDisplayDr...0& lang=en-GB Version 5.24A of the Hyperion Pro drivers includes the following components: INF V3.10A AGP V4.60A V-RAID V5.80 RAID Tools v5.85 VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2.80A And lastly, some version of DirectX 9c. Due to the age of the hardware, it is possible some version of these is already present. Paul I screwed up. You have A7A266-E and an ALI chipset, not VIA. I don't know where I got that idea. For ALI, you're pretty well stuck with whatever Asus offered (might be too hard to track down a file from the original source). There is ALi AGP miniport driver 1.90 English here, from 2002.07.10. An AGP driver, helps satisfy the video card driver, when it expected to be talking to an AGP driver. http://support.asus.com/Download.asp...266-E&p=1&s=10 If you try to install the VIA Hyperion, it should refuse it... Paul Thanks for the follow-up, Paul. But you're way ahead of me technically on this stuff! I was hoping to get just a single no-brainer link to an Nvidia driver. I'd then install it in routine fashion to see if it gave me a 'better' experience than whatever the Window XP Home has installed by default, particularly in its range of options for resolution. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK |
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Terry Pinnell wrote:
Paul wrote: Paul wrote: On 06/06/2013 10:26 AM, Terry Pinnell wrote: My 10 year old XP PC, now used in my shed, crashed recently and I've just re-installed Windows XP. Could someone please advise what driver I need for my graphics card, which is a "64 MB Nvidia Geoforce MX"? On the NVidia site, the trick is to select "legacy" as the card type. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71_2.html Version: 93.71 WHQL Release Date: November 2, 2006 Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, Media Center Edition Language: U.S. English File Size: 40.5 MB You also need a chipset driver, for the AGP slot. Names for the driver would be 4in1 or Hyperion. http://www.viaarena.com/ViaDisplayDr...0& lang=en-GB Version 5.24A of the Hyperion Pro drivers includes the following components: INF V3.10A AGP V4.60A V-RAID V5.80 RAID Tools v5.85 VIA IDE Falcon Storage Device driver v2.80A And lastly, some version of DirectX 9c. Due to the age of the hardware, it is possible some version of these is already present. Paul I screwed up. You have A7A266-E and an ALI chipset, not VIA. I don't know where I got that idea. For ALI, you're pretty well stuck with whatever Asus offered (might be too hard to track down a file from the original source). There is ALi AGP miniport driver 1.90 English here, from 2002.07.10. An AGP driver, helps satisfy the video card driver, when it expected to be talking to an AGP driver. http://support.asus.com/Download.asp...266-E&p=1&s=10 If you try to install the VIA Hyperion, it should refuse it... Paul Thanks for the follow-up, Paul. But you're way ahead of me technically on this stuff! I was hoping to get just a single no-brainer link to an Nvidia driver. I'd then install it in routine fashion to see if it gave me a 'better' experience than whatever the Window XP Home has installed by default, particularly in its range of options for resolution. OK, well my experience is, the driver stack is sensitive to its dependencies. I've had video drivers, that needed a certain minimum version of DirectX installed first. In some cases, they install it for you (when you use the driver CD that came with the video card). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directx DirectX 9.0c 4.09.00.0904 DirectX - bimonthly updates Latest version: June 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl...s.aspx?id=8109 DirectX is a bit weird, in that each of the "updates" can contain a specific file for that release, and they seem to be "accumulative". If you downloaded and installed everything from the year 2004 onwards, you end up with more files installed than if using just the very last one. And some games, depend on a specific year and month of installation (i.e. needing something in the file of that particular update). I hardly call this a "release control system", when they all have the same release number 4.09.00.0904, and yet different users can have a different collection of the "separate" files. In any case, if you're not a game player, this hardly matters, Your job is to make the other software happy. Grab the "id-8109" link and hope for the best. The reason I say hope for the best, is Microsoft has a nasty habit of labeling a download as "for WinXP", you get it and then discover it's only for Vista or later. Very annoying. ******* The NVidia (or ATI) drivers will not be happy unless the pre-requisites are loaded first. In other words, the software stack, enforces the dependencies. In the case of ATI, they need .NET 2.0 for the control panel to work. I don't know about NVidia in this case. The AGP driver should be there as well. The driver stack will not instantiate unless all the elements for it are present, so the software stack kinda enforces this for you. If you haven't met one of the dependencies, you'll find out soon enough. ******* If we look at this one, this is your NVidia driver. http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71_2.html Under the products supported tab, you can see: GeForce2 MX GeForce2 MX 400 So we know your card is in the list. And, the driver is listed as WinXP/Win2K. Give that download a try. If you can't get it to install, review your DirectX. (In some cases, what we think is a WinXP DirectX driver on the Microsoft site, is actually only for a later OS leading to a lot of "tail-chasing". The Microsoft end of things, is a never-ending load of fun.) In Start : Run, try typing "dxdiag" without the quotes, as dxdiag is the program that lists the contents of the DirectX subsystem. It should have some release information shown. The ALI AGP Miniport, is for changing the Device Manager entry for the video card slot, to AGP, and supporting things like the AGP GART. http://support.asus.com/Download.asp...266-E&p=1&s=10 The GART is described here. It's a way for the OS to map more memory, for the video card to use. Memory for textures, is stored in the video card memory, but a chunk of system memory can be used as well (allocated at runtime). The AGP Miniport may be part of that bit of it. The "aperture", is a setting you can see in the BIOS. The aperture setting may be in the BIOS, to allow some address space to be allocated for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic...emapping_table To test I've done it right. I load this benchmark. If this benchmark (40MB) does not complain about DirectX at all, and you see the benchmark run to completion and give you a performance number, then you've done a good job on the installation of the three items named above (four items if you include the .NET 2.0 dependency of ATI video cards). "3Dmark 2001 SE (Build 330)" http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...mark_2001.html That is listed as shareware, but it doesn't nag you at all. And can be un-installed after one test run if you want. For me, it's basically a proof I did the job right (on my older, AGP systems). I prefer that version, because it is only a 40MB download or so, whereas some of the later versions can be around 500MB for all the textures they use. It's a relatively lightweight download. I did have one other benchmark, which is only a 4MB download, but it doesn't appear to be anywhere near as challenging for the hardware. For that one, it's almost like watching a bad movie. On older systems, that benchmark was handy for tweaking, for comparing video card driver versions and so on. I think some people may even have tuned their system overclocks, to get as high a 3DMark value as possible. So at one time, using a copy of that was all part of the tuneup fun. In this case, I'm recommending it, just to prove everything is installed properly. HTH, Paul |
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