Gainward Drivers

[Jim123]

Hi, this could be a stupid question, but here goes - I have a new Gainward GeForce3 PowerPack!!!, Golden, Ti/450, 64mb, 4.0ns DDR TV Sample, and for it I installed the driver and utilitys from the CD that came withit - ExperTool ver. 2.79, and VGA Driver ver. 4.13.01.2250.

I'm assuming 2250 refers to NVIDIA Detonator driver ver 22.50. Is this the most current drivers? for this card by Gainward.

And has anyone used ExperTool's Smart update, How do you use it (no help file for it).

Thank you
Jim

 

[RayEarth]

I have a gainward geforce3, but i'm using the official nvidia 23.11 display drviers from www.nvidia.com I have tried using their expertool, but it seems useless, I overclocked my geforce3 with it but sometimes when games or emulators sometimes adjust the desktop setting to fit the game it can lockup the whole computer, and the overclocking didn't really help, I didn't notice an improvement by overclocking from the default 460 to 480mhz for the memory. I would just download the latest driver from nvidia and forget about the expertool.

 

[Scitex]

Here's a link to Gainward's Nvidia drivers

 

[madthumbs]

RayEarth... Is it possible that your cpu was the limiting factor?

I tried what I thought was a moderate first time OC and the screen went white, and I had trouble getting back into windows.

 

[scoobydooby]

I think most people are saying not to bother with the expertool or gainward drivers just install nvidia drivers from their website and use nvmax or some other tool to OC. Hope that helps.
Scoob

 

[Jim123]

Thanks everyone, Here's another stupid question, How do you pre set the PC to install the NVIDIA reference driver ver. 23.11.

Should I set the video adapter to standard, or just remove vedeo drivers and exportool with windows add/remove and at reboot install the 23.11 drivers?

Again thank you

 

[scoobydooby]

I think I would just update the drivers to the 23.11's and uninstall expertool.
Scoob

 

[kamel]

I also have a Gainward card...I was told not to use the Expertool, but to download PowerStrip from the Gainward website instead. I haven't experienced any problems, and the PowerStrip tool is VERY useful for OCing.

 

[Jim123]

Thank you,

I installed the NVIDIA 23.11 driver, that went fine and everything is working.

Except one thing, I'm having one strange thing happening, and I did not have this problem with the old display adapter. The problem is when I set the Screen area to 1024 by 768 the screen image split to two fuzzy horizontal sections, and if I manage to reboot and accept this setting I get a blank screen.
The only way I can get around this, has been to change the monitor to Super VGA 1024x768 @ 75 Hz, where as before the new Gainward GeForce3 card the Monitor would be detected as a Plug and Play monitor.

I asking is this a budget monitor thing, or is there something wrong with the Gainward card?

The monitor is a 17" digital AutoScan color monitor, and as per the Manual the optimum resolution up to 1024x768 pixels non-interlaced at a maximum 85Hz refresh rate, and the max display being 1280x1024 ? What is happening.

Thanks
Jim