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Trouble Installing New Drivers for GeForce FX 5200

Nov 30, 2003 12:13AM PST

I seem to be having some difficulty trying to install updated drivers for my FX 5200 Video card. The drivers that came with the computer will not handle Direct X
or the new Tiger Woods 2004

running an AMDXP2100
512DDRRAM
on Ausu A7V8X-X motherboard
the video card is GeForece FX 5200
Running Win98SE
I'm hoping someone out there would possibly be able to help me
Thanx

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Re:Trouble Installing New Drivers for GeForce FX 5200
Nov 30, 2003 12:57AM PST

If you are referring the the drivers that Win98 has in its data bank, then you are right. What is the difficulty you are having?

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Re:Re:Trouble Installing New Drivers for GeForce FX 5200
Nov 30, 2003 9:15AM PST

Okay sorry having diffuclties with a few things with this system.
I've downloaded the new drivers from nVidia for the graphics card. Tried installing them and I get a message saying that I need to insert disk 5 then disk 6
After that I tried setting up and testing DirectX 9.0
running testing mode I get errors in the Direct 3D mode
that says:
Dirct 3D 7 results test failed at step 8: (Creating 3D Device) HRESULT *0x80004005 ( Generic Failure)

Direct 3D 8 test results Failure at step 8 (creating 3DDevice) HRESULT -0x8876086c (error code)

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Re:Trouble Installing New Drivers for GeForce FX 5200
Nov 30, 2003 1:03AM PST

"running an AMDXP2100
512DDRRAM
on Ausu A7V8X-X motherboard
the video card is GeForece FX 5200
Running Win98SE"

This may confound most users as drivers are not optimised for 98 anymore. What else is that a hardware issue is that I consistently find far too small power supplies as well. Without even knowing the rest of the machine I fit the usual 450 Watt PSU and then go up if dual hard disks or such are fitted.

You'll also want to pester the supplier as to what version of motherboard drivers are needed.

Bob