Nvidia Card Will Not Install

[st34lth]

Hello All, I have purchased a Chaintech Nvidia MX4000 PCI card to use for a third monitor I would like to use for system monitoring. The system detects the new hardware but will never let me install the drivers for it.

My specs are as follows
Asus A8N-SLI Mobo
1x 6600GT PCIe
1x Chaintech MX4000 PCI

I am using the 77.72 version of drivers from Nvidia with no luck.

PLEASE HELP!

AdamR

 

[st34lth]

Can someone pleeeeease help with this. I have had no luck locating the drivers for this PCI card and I have had no response from Chaintech on this matter.

AdamR

 

[DemonicPenguin]

What exactly happens when you install the driver (screenshot, perhaps)? Are you just running nVidia's driver installation program, manually going into control panel -> add hardware, or device management?

 

[st34lth]

Thank you for the reply. I install the driver through nVidias program which I allow to install and then reboot my machine. When my machine comes back up, it says it detects the hardware but can still only identify it as a VGA controller and can never find the driver. I have had no luck in pointing it to different locations to find the driver either.

Hope that helps.

Thanks!

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Some PCIe boards will not permit the use of video cards in the PCI slots. Given that you also have an SLI version, I'd say your one of the unlucky folk to whom this applies.

Get a cheap X300SE or 6200TC to throw in the second slot and don't enable SLI mode.

- M4H

 

[Elcs]

This may be taken as an incitement to flame but here goes.

I believe that it is easier to get 1 Nvidia card and 1 ATI card to run in the same system than it is to get 2 Nvidia cards to work (SLI is the obvious exception).

MercenaryForHire puts across a point I havent heard of which sounds plausible so thats a possibilty to check out.