Help me find a driver for a Trident video card.

[BoomAM]

Hi.
Ive agreed to help a friend get her PC running well. By the sounds of it, her pc needs a complete reformat.
So ive been chatting over MSN to get info on the drivers and stuff that i`ll need to get and burn to a disk in advance.
Ive established that her sound is onboard and works with a MS driver, & that her mobo is a VIA one.
Her video card however, is a little more tricky.
She says that device manager lists it as;
trident video accelarator blade xp v5.8147-001ICD
And for the life of me, i cant find a driver for it. So. Will windows have one built in?
And whens SP2 out? Cos shes on 56k, and it`ll take far too long to DL all the update needed.
I heard its out next week?

thanks in advance all.

 

[Lonyo]

Try here?
Maybe here?

 

[BoomAM]

Thanks. But none of them appear to be for XP.

 

[ronnn]

driverguide I found drivers here for an old 4mb trident for window 2000. Took alot of looking though. user name drivers password all good luck :beer:

 

[SilentRunning]

I googled and was able to find THIS.

At the bottom of the page it has a trident blade driver version 5.8147-008 rather than 5.8147-001 for windows 2000, but the driver file includes an XP driver version 64022-021

 

[LTC8K6]

I just removed my Ti4400 and popped in a Trident Blade3D (9880 chipset) 8MB 2X agp card to see what XPPro would do. I believe this is one gen older than the Blade XP.

It correctly recognized it and installed a driver without a hitch. It works fine and still looks good. Running 1024X768 32bit.

It passed all DX9 diag. tests too.

I am posting using it now.

 

[LTC8K6]

XP's eye candy may be a bit much.

The eye candy is causing a very slight delay delay in the menus. It's barely noticeable at all unless you are used to a faster card. Turning off the effects gets rid of it completely. The BladeXP should be a tad faster but I don't really know.

Back to the Ti4400.

 

[BoomAM]

Will windows have built in drivers for it do you think?
Those on the HIS website seem good, but i wouldnt like to really risk it.

 

[SilentRunning]

Originally posted by: BoomAM
Will windows have built in drivers for it do you think?
Those on the HIS website seem good, but i wouldnt like to really risk it.

The how about this to calm your fears from the Trident website:

"On July 25, 2003, the assets of our Graphics Division were acquired by XGI Technology, Inc. (XGI), the graphics unit previously spun off from Silicon Integrated System Corp (SiS). "

So now you go to XGI technology support & downloads which is HERE

Select Desktop, BLADE T16/T64/XP, then the OS and you have the drivers.

Which are for
XP............ 64022-021
2000..........58147-008
9x.............6077-020