FX5200DT Drivers problem (nVidia/Abit)

[Vincent]

I've recently had to reinstall my WinXP setup and am having trouble with my GeForce 5200 drivers. My CD has went walkabout so I've downloaded drivers from nvidia and Abit (I remember the adapter being called Abit FX5200 something) but none of them seem to work.

With the Abit 21.83 it gets to roughly 35% done then gives a "device not found" error and stops.

With the 56.xx from Abit I can install the archive, when it asks to restart I do. When it all loads up again the drivers haven't been installed (I get in the adapter properties).

With nvidia drivers the same thing happens as with the 56.xx

Can someone either point me to the right drivers or send me the drivers?

I can't play Half Life on the software drivers and scrolling jumps like buggery! Please please can someone help :-)

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@Ilwrath

Done all that, it doesn't detect new hardware so I manually do it myself and when I select Display adapter it gives me a list... which has ATI Technologies on it twice.

I go to the Have Disk nVidia drawer and select the .inf file but absolutely nothing appears in the model box (there's no manufacturer box doing this) so I can't continue.  I've tried 45.23 and 56.72.

@mikey

Which settings in the bios?

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@ilwrath

WinXP doesn't auto detect the card at all, I've to go to the add hardware wizard myself and force it to look.  I say I've plugged it in but display adapter doesn't come up on the list, I've to "add a new device".  It doesn't know what it's meant to find so I've t select display adapter from the list.  Then it comes up with the ATI Technologies stuff.

@mikey

the only relevent BIOS stuff I saw was in Advanced Chipset -> AGP & P2P Bridge Control ->

AGP Aperture Size  [128M]
AGP Mode  [4x]
AGP Driving Control  [Auto]
AGP Driving Value  [DA]


Oh, and on a boot the very first screen says the GeForce 5200 is version 4.34.20.27.00 if that's any help.

[Vincent]

SOLVED! :-D

Something so stupidly simple...

The motherboard CD didn't install the AGP drivers automatically along with everything else.  They seem to be tacked on to the end of the cd with no way to get them from the main installation/menu.

Installed, rebooted, "Found new hardware" :-D

The wierd thing is, I don't remember having to install the AGP drivers a few months ago when we got the mobo and gfx card.

@blob

I've installed 45.23 at the moment (it was the quickest I could find), I'll install 56.72 and DX9.0 tomorrow (DXwebsetup doesn't want to work just now and I'm going out again tonight)

@mikey and Ilwrath

Cheers anyways :-D  Guess this means I don't have to write down the menu system for my bios now :-D

/me thankfully wipes brow :-D

The annoying thing is I won't have time to play HL:DoD until tomorrow now :-( but at least I'll be able to play it :-D

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blobrana wrote:
Hum,
it`s maybe the Motherboard CDROM  that he should be looking for...i`ve just thought.
It`ll have maybe a specific Abit PCI/AGP driver on it that will allow the graphic card to be recognised?
(as well as audio /lan etc)

:-D

Ilwrath wrote:
Don't force it like that. Let WinXP detect the hardware, when it pops the first prompt, there should be an option to pick in the search path that lets you type a directory. Pick this option, and type in (it won't let you browse)
C:\nvidia\win2kxp\56.72

Click "Next". It should sort itself, from there.

Interesting point: I was able to browse when it did find new hardware.  Up popped a 3.1esque dir-only requester.

Boy I've never been so glad to see smooth scrolling :-D

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@blob

Is there anything you don't know about computers? :-)

I put in CoolBits but that didn't work, I'm assuming I'll need the ""s aswell?  I'lldo it after, HL beckons :-)

I'll need to ask you about Quake servers sometime :-D

@mikey

I'll get round to doing the bios menu and asking you later on about that, I need a bit of a break from piddling about in windows :-D

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@odin

Nope, it still crashes on here so I gave up.  I have absolutely no idea why it's crashing.  The bsod's give no information about the crash.

@calen

Got CoolBits working now, dunno why it didn't work the first time tho.  But I'll give the tweaking a break just now, I'm in a "if it ain't broke don't fix it" kinda mood :-D

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@odin

If it does go steam native I'll try it again and see what happens :-)

the all-knowing blobrana confessed:

Whoops, missed the post saying you got it working...
(har-rah!)

:lol:

Hope you only copied/pasted that post :-D

"CoolBits"=dword:ffffffff

How does that differ from the 00000003 value?  Well, I suppose what I mean is, how do both of those work if they're that far apart? (assuming that 00000003 is the same as 00000003 in hex)