Help on Driver Installer

reddevils78 · 12-17-2007, 08:42 AM

I recently bought a nVidia GeForce 6200 for my brother's PC. But after installing the driver, the Hardware Profile shows Geforce 5500X, I even tried manually installing 6200's driver but the CD had no driver for this particular card. What should I do?

**Deleted090308** · 12-17-2007, 08:48 AM

Hi, welcome to TSF.

Uninstall the nVidia driver from Control Panel > Add or remove programs.
Download the 84.21 driver version from nVidia.
Reboot into VGA mode (tap F8 while the computer starts).
Disable anti-virus and install the downloaded driver.

reddevils78 · 12-17-2007, 08:55 AM

Hey could I download ForceWare Release 163 version 163.75 instead? cause that's what I did and what difference does 6200 and 5500FX have?

**Deleted090308** · 12-17-2007, 11:27 AM

To be honest - I don't know the difference, but the 6200 should be better.

The 84.21 driver is known to be stable. Try that first.

12-17-2007, 08:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
reddevils78 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 85 OS: XP SP2	Help on Driver Installer I recently bought a nVidia GeForce 6200 for my brother's PC. But after installing the driver, the Hardware Profile shows Geforce 5500X, I even tried manually installing 6200's driver but the CD had no driver for this particular card. What should I do?

12-17-2007, 08:48 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Help on Driver Installer Hi, welcome to TSF. Uninstall the nVidia driver from Control Panel > Add or remove programs. Download the 84.21 driver version from nVidia. Reboot into VGA mode (tap F8 while the computer starts). Disable anti-virus and install the downloaded driver.

12-17-2007, 08:55 AM	#3 (permalink)
reddevils78 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 85 OS: XP SP2	Re: Help on Driver Installer Hey could I download ForceWare Release 163 version 163.75 instead? cause that's what I did and what difference does 6200 and 5500FX have?

12-17-2007, 11:27 AM	#4 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: Help on Driver Installer To be honest - I don't know the difference, but the 6200 should be better. The 84.21 driver is known to be stable. Try that first.