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Nforce mobo drivers take care of video card drivers?
Hi, I have a Soltek nforce2 motherboard. No onboard graphics (IGP) so I got
an MX 440 video card. Mobo is the 75frn-l also known as 75frn2-l Have been having stability problems so I reinstalled windows XP and this time I did not install Nvidia graphics card drivers. I just installed the nforce unified driver for the motherboard. The latest one from the Nvidia website. A download of 12.9 MB Going by the hardware device manager, the display adapter drivers are working just fine. And are identified as for a Geforce4 MX 440 This time the board is working much better Thanks Fenz |
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"fenceerx" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a Soltek nforce2 motherboard. No onboard graphics (IGP) so I got an MX 440 video card. Mobo is the 75frn-l also known as 75frn2-l Have been having stability problems so I reinstalled windows XP and this time I did not install Nvidia graphics card drivers. I just installed the nforce unified driver for the motherboard. The latest one from the Nvidia website. A download of 12.9 MB Going by the hardware device manager, the display adapter drivers are working just fine. And are identified as for a Geforce4 MX 440 This time the board is working much better Have you tried any OpenGL games? IIRC the graphics driver that ships with XP does not support OpenGL, only DirectX. The nForce motherboard drivers do not include the nVidia graphics card drivers, you are simply using the default one that comes with XP. Dan |
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Daniel Crichton wrote:
"fenceerx" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a Soltek nforce2 motherboard. No onboard graphics (IGP) so I got an MX 440 video card. Mobo is the 75frn-l also known as 75frn2-l Have been having stability problems so I reinstalled windows XP and this time I did not install Nvidia graphics card drivers. I just installed the nforce unified driver for the motherboard. The latest one from the Nvidia website. A download of 12.9 MB Going by the hardware device manager, the display adapter drivers are working just fine. And are identified as for a Geforce4 MX 440 This time the board is working much better Have you tried any OpenGL games? IIRC the graphics driver that ships with XP does not support OpenGL, only DirectX. The nForce motherboard drivers do not include the nVidia graphics card drivers, you are simply using the default one that comes with XP. Dan that is not true if you look at the end of the nForce mobo driver page you see that it comes with drivers. they should work..i have an nForce 2 mobo and 5700 Ultra and it works great. the drivers it comes with are old though |
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"Ryan" wrote in message
... Daniel Crichton wrote: "fenceerx" wrote in message ... Hi, I have a Soltek nforce2 motherboard. No onboard graphics (IGP) so I got an MX 440 video card. Mobo is the 75frn-l also known as 75frn2-l Have been having stability problems so I reinstalled windows XP and this time I did not install Nvidia graphics card drivers. I just installed the nforce unified driver for the motherboard. The latest one from the Nvidia website. A download of 12.9 MB Going by the hardware device manager, the display adapter drivers are working just fine. And are identified as for a Geforce4 MX 440 This time the board is working much better Have you tried any OpenGL games? IIRC the graphics driver that ships with XP does not support OpenGL, only DirectX. The nForce motherboard drivers do not include the nVidia graphics card drivers, you are simply using the default one that comes with XP. Dan that is not true if you look at the end of the nForce mobo driver page you see that it comes with drivers. they should work..i have an nForce 2 mobo and 5700 Ultra and it works great. the drivers it comes with are old though I stand corrected. I assumed that the nForce drivers would not include display drivers as not every nForce based machine would have an nVidia card, and therefore it would be silly to include them :\ However, the 52.16 drivers that ship with the current nForce drivers have known issues with some games (most notably the Desert Combat mod for Battlefield 1942), so I personally wouldn't use them anyway. Dan |
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