Solve : No video card driver compat. with WinXP?

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Answer» Upgraded old Micron PC (Pentium II) to WIN XP and added larger HD. Works great except some games won't work but DVD playback is fine. In the Hardware profile there's an exclamation for a "Multimedia Video Controller" at PCI slot no. 2 which I think is my NVidia RIva 128 (4MB) integrated video card Part No. VCD001305-00. There is no available driver that works with Win XP for this component. What are my options? I guess I need a new PCI video card but I can't seem to easily find one that is new enough to work with Win XP but old enough to work with the Pentium II processor. Why can the system play DVDs but not show game graphics? Please help. lynchjRun Everest Home and see what the components are we are DEALING with. You can make a report and post it here. http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.htmlIt is POSSIBLE that the NT drivers which should be NTFS would work,unless you have XP installed as Fat32. http://www.nvidia.com/object/riva_drivers.html I downloaded the NT files and extracted them to the windows temp folder and then went to the device manager, chose the option to reinstall the drivers for the multimedia device and told it to look for the files in the win temp folder. It doesn't recognize the NT driver files as correct and states ...'cannot find the necessary files". Can I physically put these files where they need to go or does the fact that they are not being recognized by XP tell me in itself that these NT drivers will not work? Thanks. Also, there was a 3rd reply to my original query but now I do not see it. Why was it DELETED? lynchjI only gave you a it is possible on the NT file.May not be a XP driver available. As for responses and posts they come and go according to the moderators discretion. Weird things show up on forums.So do useless posts or nasty vocabulary ETC.. When the moderator sees this Bye Bye. They could zap this one. Quote It is possible that the NT drivers which should be NTFS would work,unless you have XP installed as Fat32. http://www.nvidia.com/object/riva_drivers.html The hard drive format (NTFS vs FAT32) has nothing to do with this. What matters is whether the driver will work with the particular OS. Quote ... does the fact that they are not being recognized by XP tell me in itself that these NT drivers will not work? Yep. soybean,Thanks! I should have said."Compatability mode somewhere there sorry. Thank You for the correction. "Finding Compatible Device Drivers for Windows XP"Have you tried Directx 9.0 or higher? Since you only have 4MB video the below would fit in the caught in the middle category.It is a 32 MB PCI slot Video card. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=695 You can go to the below site and see it works with Windows XP. https://support.ati.com/We still don't know EXACTLY what's in that machine yet.

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Upgraded old Micron PC (Pentium II) to WIN XP and added larger HD. Works great except some games won't work but DVD playback is fine. In the Hardware profile there's an exclamation for a "Multimedia Video Controller" at PCI slot no. 2 which I think is my NVidia RIva 128 (4MB) integrated video card Part No. VCD001305-00. There is no available driver that works with Win XP for this component.

What are my options? I guess I need a new PCI video card but I can't seem to easily find one that is new enough to work with Win XP but old enough to work with the Pentium II processor.
Why can the system play DVDs but not show game graphics?

Please help.

lynchjRun Everest Home and see what the components are we are DEALING with. You can make a report and post it here.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.htmlIt is POSSIBLE that the NT drivers which should be NTFS would work,unless you have XP installed as Fat32.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/riva_drivers.html I downloaded the NT files and extracted them to the windows temp folder and then went to the device manager, chose the option to reinstall the drivers for the multimedia device and told it to look for the files in the win temp folder. It doesn't recognize the NT driver files as correct and states ...'cannot find the necessary files". Can I physically put these files where they need to go or does the fact that they are not being recognized by XP tell me in itself that these NT drivers will not work?
Thanks.

Also, there was a 3rd reply to my original query but now I do not see it. Why was it DELETED?
lynchjI only gave you a it is possible on the NT file.May not be a XP driver available.

As for responses and posts they come and go according to the moderators
discretion.

Weird things show up on forums.So do useless posts or nasty vocabulary ETC..

When the moderator sees this Bye Bye. They could zap this one.

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It is possible that the NT drivers which should be NTFS would work,unless you have XP installed as Fat32.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/riva_drivers.html

The hard drive format (NTFS vs FAT32) has nothing to do with this. What matters is whether the driver will work with the particular OS.
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... does the fact that they are not being recognized by XP tell me in itself that these NT drivers will not work?

Yep.
soybean,Thanks!

I should have said."Compatability mode somewhere there sorry.

Thank You for the correction.

"Finding Compatible Device Drivers for Windows XP"Have you tried Directx 9.0 or higher?

Since you only have 4MB video the below would fit in the caught in the middle
category.It is a 32 MB PCI slot Video card.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=695

You can go to the below site and see it works with Windows XP.

https://support.ati.com/We still don't know EXACTLY what's in that machine yet.

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