Driver Help...

[Volkensmeer]

I'm on a school computer, one's recently donated to the school. They are fairly good computers, Dell, 1.4ghz P4 and stuff, but the video cards have no drivers installed...so all I get are 16 colors and 800x600.... But I have no idea what cards they have really, all the computers knows is that it is ATI AGP Graphics with 16MB SGRAM, 64-bit accelerator... I have no idea what to do next, any suggestions?

Actually, scratch that on the specs...it's actually a 4x AGP Graphics with 64 MB SGRAM and 64-bit accelerator...And the computers are running on Windows 2000 Pro..

[polobunny]

Open it, take a look. Write any number you can see on the card on a piece of paper. Use google. :P
It can be anything honestly, but I suspect it's a Radeon 7000.
Catalyst 6.2 is what you need.
Catalyst® 6.2 Display Driver for Windows 2000

[Volkensmeer]

I opened it up, it's an NVidia... tomorrow i'll go in and google it. Thanks though.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by Volkensmeer

I opened it up, it's an NVidia... tomorrow i'll go in and google it. Thanks though.

LOL okay, quite far from what you were saying. :P
Probably GeForce 2 era.
The 93.71 should do it. But for a sure shot, the 61.77 are for you. (Just incase you have a TNT2 or such)

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by polobunny

LOL okay, quite far from what you were saying. :P
Probably GeForce 2 era.
The 93.71 should do it. But for a sure shot, the 61.77 are for you. (Just incase you have a TNT2 or such)

Yep, I think I would go with the 61.77's and open the advanced properties on your desktop and it will tell you what card is in there.

Being a p4 it may be a ti4200 64mb card! About 3 years ago, I picked up a couple of these oem cards and they are pretty decent cards, but install the 61.77 drivers just in case. You can always update the drivers if it is the ti4200!

[Volkensmeer]

Well, i opened it and googled it...got this, but i can't find any drivers for it..

Dell 096VHW Dell NVIDIA QUADPRO2 Video Card

What drivers should i get, and where from?

Oh and i was way off cuz i was reading the wrong thing on the teachers sheet lol...

[Hitman]

Go to dell and put in the Service Tag #, as long as the video card is the original one, they will have a driver for it. It won't be the most current driver, but it will be verified to work in that machine.

Another alternative is to do a windows update they will have a driver. Thats what I do for my Quadpro2.

[polobunny]

Again, 61.77 should work :)

[Volkensmeer]

Sweet... Thanks for the help, I did the whole Dell thing and they didn't have it, it was weird... But i'll get the one Polo talked about. Thanks.

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by polobunny

Again, 61.77 should work :)

Not necessarily, that Quadro2 can be picky, I have never gotten a Geforce Driver to work with it. Windows update should pick up the right driver for it. It does for me every time.