On 11/10/2010 10:05 AM, Terry Pinnell wrote:
> Terry Pinnell<> wrote:
>
>> Terry Pinnell<> wrote:
>>
>>> A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my VERY old driver version for my 512 MB
>>> nVidia GeoForce 8800GT to the new 260.99. Has anyone had any problems
>>> with this please? Here, on my XP Pro (SP2) PC, I've had a few glitches and
>>> strange 'corruptions' of the screen, which I'd never had before.
>>
>> Meanwhile I had an automated email this morning advising that 262.99 was
>> available. But the link just takes me to the main download page. If I then
>> manually search I get the existing driver. And if I do an automated search
>> (which requires switching from Firefox to IE) I get
>>
>> "NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 260.99 Your PC currently has the latest driver
>> installed for your GPU. No driver update is necessary at this time."
>>
>> Does 262.99 actually exist and if so where can I get it please?
>
> Straight after posting that I did the obvious thing and used SEARCH to
> find and download 262.99!
>
> But it doesn't install. I get this:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/nvidia-fail.jpg
>
> --
> Terry, East Grinstead, UK
>
262.99 is a 580 specific driver; the driver on the site does not have
INF listings for any other cards. You need to modify it yourself; or
get one from like laptopvideo2go.com, or guru3d, etc.
I can't think of a reason why G92 based cards would have any problem
with the 262 driver (PROVIDED YOU USE A MODIFIED INF!); but I don't
recall any specific fixes in the past several versions that you would
benefit from either. My 9800GTX+ maxed out around 186.18 or so
(practically the same chip as the 8800GT). Everything up until 259.xx
was a mixed batch.
Get a proper INF file, replace the one in the NVIDIA directory where the
driver extracts to (likely C:\NVIDIA\WinXP32\262.99 or some variation),
and give it a go. Try the clean install option to be certain.
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