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Graphics card being mis-recognized by Win XP
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Posted by: Humex
I am upgrading my graphics card from an NVIDIA GeForce 2 card to an ATI Radeon 9000. My GeForce 2 card was PCI, the new card is AGP. The problem is that windows (XP) wont recognize the new card, and still has the display adapter listed as the GeForce 2 card. I’ve deleted the drivers, uninstalled them, deleted the display adapter profile, but every time windows load up again it automatically “detects new hardware” and installs the Geforce 2 drivers again. Also as soon as I start the machine the card is listed as Geforce 2 32 MB, when the new card actually has 128 MB and is ATI. Every time I try to install the ATI drivers in spite of the GeForce drivers windows says “Setup was unable to find components that can be installed on your current hardware or software configuration. Please make sure you have the required hardware or software.” Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- Humex
P4 Celeron 2Ghz
512MB DDR 3200
Win XP – SP1
Sound Blaster 5.1 - PCI
Was using NVIDIA GeForce 2 - 32MB – PCI Graphics card
Now upgraded to ATI Radeon 9000 “Evil Commando” 128 MB - AGP
Posted by: Zendu
When was the last time you formated?
Posted by: Humex
Last reformatted about 2 months ago. Everything is still pretty fresh.
-Humex
Posted by: Humex
It turns out that the card Im upgrading to was "used", and I actually got an NVIDIA card in an ATI box. I had assumed that the card was the same as the box it was in. After running the serial number on the card I found out that it was actually a Geforce 2 card. So I guess Windows was right after all.
- Humex
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