Vista 64, GeForce + Quadra...?

2009-01-17 12:18:49

#1

TheDonkey: Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt; +163|5982|Vancouver, BC, Canada

Ok, so since my 7300GS died a while back, and I can't afford a new Gfx card(At all), I've resorted to using Onboard, and a $24 NVS 280 that I got off of eBay to support my 2 monitors,

Problem is, the driver's are all fucked up in every way.

If I hit uninstall on ALL the video drivers, then let Windows use its own driver for the onboard and find one off Windows Update for the NVS 280, then both monitors work, BUT, it's a VERY bad "work" as I have no nVidia Control panel and neither monitor can render full screen video without dropping frames.(I used to be able to watch FS on JUST the onboard)

If I go to the nVidia site and download the recommended driver for the onboard, and install that, then it decided to UN-install my secondary monitor, redownloading the driver off of Windows update again causes the onboard AND control panel to uninstall.

And as far as the nVidia site says, there is NO Vista 64 driver for the NVS 280.

This is getting frustrating, comments?

P.S. Blah Blah, onboard, Blah, blah $24 off of eBay, all "Buy a better video card" comments will be ignored as I have already stated that I CAN NOT afford it to ANY extent.

2009-01-17 12:21:38

#2

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6462|Winland

Quadro drivers are fucked up, and using a 2003-4 card on Vista 64 is prone to fail. Sorry.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2009-01-17 13:38:38

#3

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6832|NYC / Hamburg

Can't you run both monitors off the NVS 280? Afaik it come with a DVI cable that splits in 2 to connect dual monitors

Onboard + dedicated has always been a problem

Otherwise get yourself a dualhead2go or some other low end card that'll actually work with vista. Something like a geforceFX will work and actually have working drivers.

Also Linux has a NVS280 driver in 32bit and 64bit flavors

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2009-01-17 14:33:18

#4

TheDonkey: Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt; +163|5982|Vancouver, BC, Canada

max wrote:
Can't you run both monitors off the NVS 280? Afaik it come with a DVI cable that splits in 2 to connect dual monitors

Onboard + dedicated has always been a problem

Otherwise get yourself a dualhead2go or some other low end card that'll actually work with vista. Something like a geforceFX will work and actually have working drivers.

Also Linux has a NVS280 driver in 32bit and 64bit flavors

I CAN run both off the 280, but it can't properly render ANY form of live video, not even youtube, even on just the one monitor, although this may partially be because I took the heatsink off, scraped off all the heat compound, and put it back on(I was gonna transfer the heatsink to my 7300GS, but the card itself died out.) and I haven't gotten any more since then.

For one, afaik, a DualHead2go is just a video "splitter" that emulates a 2048x768 monitor, then splits THAT signal into 2 monitors, so it won't work as well, Plus, they're like $80.

For two, if I'm buying something(Which I'm not, I'm 100% serious in not having ANY money) I'd just buy another 7300 or something of the like.(I think the first one died because I took the fan off of it, and it overheated.)

I'm going to try plugging in the 7300 again, but last time it just didn't recognize it at all, anywhere, not even in the Bios.

2009-01-17 20:16:23

#5

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6832|NYC / Hamburg

The way I see you don't really have a lot of options here
- Install another OS so that the card works properly
- Stick with onboard and 1 monitor
- Buy another card or go dualhead2go with onboard

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2009-01-17 21:58:59

#6

TheDonkey: Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt; +163|5982|Vancouver, BC, Canada

max wrote:
The way I see you don't really have a lot of options here
- Install another OS so that the card works properly
- Stick with onboard and 1 monitor
- Buy another card or go dualhead2go with onboard

Yeah, that's about it.

Well thanks anyways.

Are there any tools that one can install to change monitor colours outside of nVidia CP? My second one is a really old CRT and I wanna see if I can pull some of the yellow out of it.

2009-01-18 13:06:27

#7

TheDonkey: Eat my bearrrrrrrrrrr, Tonighttt; +163|5982|Vancouver, BC, Canada

Anyone?

Since I don't have access to the nVidia control panel, all Googleling just tells me to use the nVidia tool, there MUST be some third-party program to calibrate the colors.

2009-01-18 14:07:17

#8

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6832|NYC / Hamburg

Riva tuner might work

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