What does the message "The VGA detected seems not ...

by Mick Nov 4, 2006 3:34PM PST

What does the message "The VGA detected seems not XFX's product. Please go to www.nvidia.com to get the driver for the other NVIDIA VGA" mean?

Just reformatted with XP Home SP2 with new GeForce MX 4000 PCI card installed and on putting the driver cd in I get the above message.

Driver download for GeForce4 MX 4000 on http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71.html seems to be what I should do next but would this be the next thing to do in this situation?

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(NT) (NT) Install the right driver (came with the card?).

by Kees Bakker Nov 4, 2006 6:56PM PST

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That driver would be OK, however

by lacsr Nov 4, 2006 9:04PM PST

Check in the BIOS to see if the motherboard has onboard video. It may be seeing that instead. Also, Are you sure the card you installed is the right one? What does Device Manager say?

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onboard turned off but

by Mick Nov 5, 2006 5:24AM PST

I turned the Onboard off in BIOS (Init Display First -set to 'PCI Slot')before format/card install but yes there are two items in Device Manager, Display Adapters, the onboard driver, Intel(r)82810-DC100 Graphics Controller(microsft corp)and NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 (microsoft corp)

Also two instances under Monitors - Default and Philips. It is a PCI card installed in the first slot, below is a Creative Soundblaster 5.1 onboard disabled, with Ethernet Card below that. Is there something else in the BIOS I might look for?

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Re: video card

by Kees Bakker Nov 5, 2006 7:02AM PST

The double monitor won't harm, but I would use Device Manager to disable (in current hardware profile, I think, is the term) the Intel graphics controller (that's the onboard one, I suspect). And better replace the Microsoft driver with the Nvidia one.

Hope this helps.

Kees

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If you have multiple drivers listed in Device manager

by Ray Harinec Nov 5, 2006 1:19PM PST

removing one will not solve the problem in normal mode.

Boot up in SAFE MODE and then go into device manager and remove all video driver instances including doubles. Safe Mode is the only way to see all of the drivers of a given type. Removing only one DOES NOT solve the problem. Remove them all re-boot and then install the correct driver.

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Disable the answer

by Mick Nov 6, 2006 2:53AM PST

Thanks for all the replies. I checked in Safe Mode and found only the same two drivers, deleting both the Intel and Nvidia drivers in Device Manager, I then rebooted, but as soon as I arrived at the Desktop XP automatically installed both again.

So in Device Manager, Disable Intel driver, Update the Nvidia driver, Hardware Update Wizard, specific location, soon had it installed. Probably better to Disable Intel in Safe Mode and Uninstall Nvidia then reboot(?)

Now I need the better monitor to justify the card

thanks

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