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Answer» To check the display, I have win xp home (with poor display) and installed win xp pro (good display) Is the "vga device driver" in the "system folder" the Nvidia Adapter driver ??No. I don't even know what you are referring to. you don't Install drivers by randomly copying files to system folders. What is your graphics adapter? Is this a laptop? Quote from: Geek-9pm on April 26, 2014, 09:58:39 PM What do you call a 'poor display'? Fuzzy? Poor color?I'm almost positive that the effect they are seeing is that the XP Home machine does not have proper drivers installed. Though it could be as simple as changing the resolution, now that I think of it. Item 1. The OS (both) are on a Dell Dimension 2350. Item 2. The OS for both was installed with the original MS disk Item 3. The Video controller is Nvidia GeForce 4000 Item 4. Both OS have the drivers wiavideo.dll (sys32) and vga device driver (sys folder) - - I agree with you. I think it is a driver, but which one ?? - - - thank you for your time and help any addition help will be appreciated falcon Quote from: navyfalcon on April 26, 2014, 11:11:35 PM Item 3. The Video controller is Nvidia GeForce 4000Than the Driver SOFTWARE is available here Quote Item 4. Both OS have the drivers wiavideo.dll (sys32) and vga device driver (sys folder) wiavideo is not a video Driver. it is used for acquiring video data from a digital camcorder (Windows Image Acquisition for Video). vga.drv is the default driver that Windows will use if no other driver is installed. I downloaded drivers from this site http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_182.65 I hope it is the correct site and drivers - - - falconI copied and pasted the driver into the system folder (not system32) No joy. No change in the display. Is there a procedure to set up the driver for the display or did I GET the wrong driver ?? - - - Thank you again for the help falconThe driver you installed is not the correct driver. The driver you downloaded is for Quadro Cards, which are high-end Workstation Display Cards. You want the one that I linked (NVidia Forceware). You don't copy files into system32. You run the downloaded program. it is an Installer.The drivers should actually come from Dell. Dell's are finicky like that. Quote from: patio on April 27, 2014, 09:25:27 PM The drivers should actually come from Dell. The Nvidia is added-on after purchase and was not stock with the machine. The Dell support page doesn't list any NVidia drivers for that model. That said, it actually BRINGS up a good question, which is whether the Geforce 4000 is in both machines, and if not, which machine it is in. Though I'm also curious how they managed to get from the link I provided for Forceware 90 to a download for NVidia Quadro drivers. That must have been some adventure. Easy trip: To do the automatic search requires java and I have difficulty downloading a java version for win xp home. So I went to Nvidia site and tried for a match. This is an old video card and the system is old. I think my best bet is to somehow get the drivers from win xp pro and put them in win xp home. - - - How can I perform this operation so the drivers will install - - - again, thank you for your patience and help - - - falcon |
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