Win 10 won't install due to lack of video driver

[Matt L]

Got a junk computer running Win 7 with no issues, got the upgrade notice but it fails due to no driver. It's an old system soon to be replaced but want to use it for a few weeks with Win 10. It's a crappy but functional GeForce 6200 card, and I want to do an inplace update. Got a few older programs that are tied to that computer so trying to avoid clean install - that will happen on the new system.

Any options?

 

[Puffnstuff]

Get a better gpu as almost all support for the pre-8800 series has been dropped.

 

[Underclocked]

Onboard video maybe?? If it has onboard...

 

[JimKiler]

I have a secondary PC with the onboard ATI 4200 GPU and it worked fine with Win7. I have had Win10 since the public beta on it and it started giving me blurriness at times but usually just the start screen and it is not always blurry. Now I am second guessing the upgrade for my sisteres parents and her sister since both those have older cards. Sucks that the specs would be fine but the video card driver is the only issue. I may just image the HD and see what happens when i upgrade it. Anyone else have luck with outdated video cards?

 

[Spjut]

There's a thread about Win10 drivers for Nvidia's DX9 generation over at the geforce forums
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/847623/legacy/windows-10-drivers-for-older-gpus-/2/

Two users claim it worked by using the Windows Media Creation Tool to upgrade, and then manually download and install the Windows 8.0 driver

 

[Shawn]

1) Download ISO
2) Burn ISO or use Rufus to extract to USB drive
3) Do an inplace upgrade from the install media
...
5) Profit?