Anyone know the newest stable nvidia vista drivers

Insomniator

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Coming from the topic in computer help, after setting my resolution too high (soyo topaz 24), I could no longer get a picture to come up in windows unless it was in safe mode. Boot screen worked, bios worked, windows loading bar came up, but once windows loaded my monitor would come up with no signal.

I ended up having to reinstall vista as I had no restore points and reinstalling/uninstalling drivers did not work.

Now it works good but the default 2-3 year old nvidia driver plays source only at a low resolution and with lots of artifacts.


In the middle of posting this, my monitor went black and came up with no signal out of nowhere. I had to use a restore point to get back to this. Could my card be dieing? or the monitor?

Sometimes i get signal out of range or no signal once the Abit motherboard logo screen goes away, and a restart or two will at least bring that back so somethin is up.

 

taltamir

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175.16 lists the 6600GT in its supported drivers... even if it didn't, nvidia uses a unified driver architecture so you can just use a modded inf for ANY GPU they ever made to work with the latest drivers, available from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/

But you don't need that, just go to nvidia.com and download the driver.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

lots of artifacts, and a problem coming back after a reformat, sounds like a card dying to me...
 

Woofmeister

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How does the card run in safe mode? A dying card will run badly even with the windows default driver.
 

Insomniator

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The newest drivers from the Nvidia website almost started my problem all over again, requiring a restore to get my picture back.

Card seems to run fine now, it was fine in safe mode also; I'll just have to deal with no source for now.
 

taltamir

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most likely parts of the card are offline while it is using the default drives... it is probably only doing 2d operations meaning certain pieces of hardware on it are completely unused... they could very well be faulty.
 

SickBeast

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My best experience was running the 9-series driver on my 8-series card. I'm not sure if this would be possible for you, but it's worth investigating if you can.