Nvidia Geforce Fx5500 Help

#1 Andrew D'Angelo

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Posted 18 November 2007 - 10:10 PM

i need help with drivers for my FX5500 256mb PCI graphics card. No games will play because they dont reconize my graphics adapter(Because the drivers arent installed) Meanwhile I installed the Nvidia drivers..ir emember install drivers once and then everything knew and every game played..Any help finding the driver please

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Posted 18 November 2007 - 11:02 PM

Hi, Andrew. Are you running Vista or Xp? Here is the link to the nVidia web site http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

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#3 Andrew D'Angelo

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Posted 20 November 2007 - 09:50 PM

i just tried the driver from your link and when i restarted the picture was all messed up so i had to roll back the driver.something was screwey with that installation of windows(power went out 1 minute be4 it ended so alot of stuff was messed up) i re-formatted and im going to try the install again. Thanks For your Reply

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Posted 20 November 2007 - 10:06 PM

let us know how it goes.

#5 Andrew D'Angelo

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Posted 20 November 2007 - 10:33 PM

I just tried it, and now i get an ERROR message when trying to play any gamse saying NVIDIA display driver files from different(incompatible) versions of the driver have been detected Nvidia OpenGL acceleration is disabled in order to maintain system stability To resolve this problem update driver at (nvidia website)

#6 Robert Isbell

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Posted 20 November 2007 - 10:42 PM

okay, you're going to need to pull the card and get model numbers off, somethings not right with that card.

#7 Andrew D'Angelo

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Posted 20 November 2007 - 11:22 PM

Actualy, i realized that i didnt restart after installation and so i did that and bamf everything works.

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Posted 20 November 2007 - 11:30 PM

ah ha! well, glad everything running smoothly now, enjoy.

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Posted 20 November 2007 - 11:39 PM

Andrew D, on Nov 20 2007, 11:22 PM, said:

Actualy, i realized that i didnt restart after installation and so i did that and bamf everything works.

You're not the only one that makes this little goof. I don't know how many times I've gotten frustrated with a problem, shut the computer off, gone back after doing something else for a while, and when the power goes on - Presto!! - every thing's just fine. :thumbsup: