Topic: graphics card drivers

[nobby]

Hi Im nobby
i am a new member and i have just built a new system from scratch my first it is an asus A7N8X delux mother board with a AMD XP 2600
processor 512 meg of ram and a 60 gig hard drive butthe problem is the Gainward geforce 4 powerpack video card it is a pro/600-8X xp
every time i try to install the vivo drivers the whole system locks up and sometimes turns of the monitor power and then all my cd drives are no longer available so i have tried to install without cd in add hardware but then it says windows logo error and tells me not to carry on can some one help. by the way i am running on windows xp prof.
thanks nobby

[Sandra]

Hi Nobby,welcome aboard.
Does it say that the drivers arent certified and "advises" you not to install them or does it not allow you to do so from the add hardware bit?
If it just advises then it may be worth installing them to see what happens.
I assume that you have searched for later drivers for your card,if not see if you can find them from the manufacturers site or from www.driverguide.com  

[lobo]

@nobby
Looks as if you are installing the wrong drivers, try and download the latest drivers from the Internet and install those

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

Brian

[nobby]

Just a quick thank you i down loaded the latest drivers from nvidia and it came up with the same warning so i loaded them any way and hey presto it works thanks again nobby

[Sandra]

Glad to hear its sorted Nobby  
Xp for some reason seems to have a lot of drivers that it says arent certified by XP that seem to work ok so it is always worth giving them a try,I think its just that they havent got around to testing them yet or something like that :doggie:

[Tony]

I get that same message with W2K Pro, but just ignore it, and it works for me. Unified , certified , pasturized they are all drivers to me, they either work or they don't  

[Sandra]

Funnily enough I just installed my scanner this afternoon and it came up with the "These drivers are not certified" etc the same as last time I had it installed.
I installed it anyway but it didnt work when it had done on XP before  
I found the correct XP drivers off the Agfa site and instaled them and it works fine again now  
I can only think that there is something else that has been installed since the last time or maybe an XP update that has done something :doggie: