nVIDIA FX5500

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Vista won`t recognise the above card going to personalize reports it
as Default monitor on, this is driving me crazy
 
'default monitor' is not a reference to the video card.. monitors tend not
to require specific driver files anymore.. do not worry about it..


Vista won`t recognise the above card going to personalize reports it
as Default monitor on, this is driving me crazy
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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
'default monitor' is not a reference to the video card.. monitors tend not
to require specific driver files anymore.. do not worry about it..
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Win xp can find the fx5500 in desktop properties but when you do the
same thing in vista it wont
 
Try to delete it then reboot the machine. When it asks what you want to do
with the new device, let it search the net for the latest driver. Otherwise,
it may not be supported. You can check if it is by going to
www.windowsvista.com and looking under the compatability hardware list.
 
Vista won`t recognise the above card going to personalize reports it
as Default monitor on, this is driving me crazy
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nVidia aren't currently "supporting" the 5xxx series of cards and as such
there is no video driver for them and Windows will use the generic VGA
driver.

What support there is, is left over from the beta stages of Vista, so have a
look around for the 9x.xx series of drivers. They're quite buggy, but will
"work" to some level until nVidia decide to start supporting them again
(their support pages infer they will do this once they've got the 6/7/8
cards working better). You may also need to force device manager to install
them.

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Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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You mention monitor drivers which is not really relevant for the video
card.
I have that card and it works well with Vista native drivers.

My guess is your card is bad or improperly seated.
 
"esentially the same"
But a lower version than native drivers on the DVD.

"what you should be using"
Why?
 
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