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2017/02/16 18:27:37 (permalink)
I have a EVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra, P/N: 256-A8-N345-AX
(that's right, a whopping 256MB)
 
I'm looking for drivers for Windows 98SE and Windows XP. I went to NVidia's site, do I select GeForce 6 series?
 

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/16 18:29:04 (permalink)
    GeForce 6 series? Yes
    XP: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/57493/en-us
    98: http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/11/en-us
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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/16 18:48:31 (permalink)
    Thanks, I wasn't sure. I downloaded it for 98, ME and XP.

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/16 19:34:11 (permalink)
    My Problem now is finding a newer Graphics Card that will work in my Windows XP rig.
    It needs to say XP run my Weather Station.
    It has been on line 7/24 since 2004 when I stated to play around with Personal Weather Stations.

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/16 22:50:45 (permalink)
     
    You just need to move on to Win 10 / GPU and you won't have those problems.      :P

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/17 02:23:48 (permalink)
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    My Problem now is finding a newer Graphics Card that will work in my Windows XP rig.
    It needs to say XP run my Weather Station.
    It has been on line 7/24 since 2004 when I stated to play around with Personal Weather Stations.


    How new? PCI-e? Direct-X 12? Did your current video card die?

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/17 03:52:20 (permalink)
    HarryD
    I have a EVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra, P/N: 256-A8-N345-AX
    (that's right, a whopping 256MB)
     
    I'm looking for drivers for Windows 98SE and Windows XP. I went to NVidia's site, do I select GeForce 6 series?
     


    Just a word of advice. Both of those operating systems have no Microsoft support. 

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/17 10:20:59 (permalink)
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    You just need to move on to Win 10 / GPU and you won't have those problems.      :P


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    I have a EVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra, P/N: 256-A8-N345-AX
    (that's right, a whopping 256MB)
     
    I'm looking for drivers for Windows 98SE and Windows XP. I went to NVidia's site, do I select GeForce 6 series?
     

    Just a word of advice. Both of those operating systems have no Microsoft support. 


    Windows 10 is not a stable OS to run unattended like Windows XP is.
    Also the Weather Software and Video Capture tools do not even work on Windows 7.
    Think of it this way, it is like I have an ATM in my house running Windows XP like our Banks still do.
    But Yes No Support have not have it for a long time now.
    If I could get Windows 98SE working well on a newer computer I would have one setup still today, my old 486DX died 6 years ago.
     
    Good News for the Graphics Card though is EVGA still Makes and Sales some that support Windows XP.
     
     

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/17 10:23:24 (permalink)
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    My Problem now is finding a newer Graphics Card that will work in my Windows XP rig.
    It needs to say XP run my Weather Station.
    It has been on line 7/24 since 2004 when I stated to play around with Personal Weather Stations.


    How new? PCI-e? Direct-X 12? Did your current video card die?


    It is PCI-e a Sapphire GTX 550Ti with a GB of memory.
    My primary card fan died and I have a second card I put in until I find a GPU fan.
     

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/17 15:01:13 (permalink)
    Grab an AMD HD 5450 (512 MB or 1 GB). All major OS' are supported. It's the best value card out there for light purposes. It even comes with an extra low profile bracket.

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/17 15:18:59 (permalink)
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    I have a EVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra, P/N: 256-A8-N345-AX
    (that's right, a whopping 256MB)
     
    I'm looking for drivers for Windows 98SE and Windows XP. I went to NVidia's site, do I select GeForce 6 series?
     


    Just a word of advice. Both of those operating systems have no Microsoft support. 


    Well aware of that. I was looking at building a 98/XP computer to replicate my first gaming PC that I built.

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/17 15:33:27 (permalink)
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    Grab an AMD HD 5450 (512 MB or 1 GB). All major OS' are supported. It's the best value card out there for light purposes. It even comes with an extra low profile bracket.

    I through away 3 ATI Cards that would have worked but have move over to NVIDIA now.
    I did give ATI now AMD a 4th chance with a pair of R2 290X Cards though.

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/17 20:50:11 (permalink)
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    I have a EVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra, P/N: 256-A8-N345-AX
    (that's right, a whopping 256MB)
     
    I'm looking for drivers for Windows 98SE and Windows XP. I went to NVidia's site, do I select GeForce 6 series?
     


    Just a word of advice. Both of those operating systems have no Microsoft support. 


    Well aware of that. I was looking at building a 98/XP computer to replicate my first gaming PC that I built.


    if no luck on nvidias site let me know what version you need, i pretty much have every driver from 2003 forward on my server, i can always drop one in a dropbox for ya.

                                   
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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/18 01:32:01 (permalink)
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    if no luck on nvidias site let me know what version you need, i pretty much have every driver from 2003 forward on my server, i can always drop one in a dropbox for ya.




    I was able to find the drivers I needed. I'm not sure what OS I'll be using so I downloaded them for 98, ME and XP.

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/18 03:08:57 (permalink)
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    My Problem now is finding a newer Graphics Card that will work in my Windows XP rig.
    It needs to say XP run my Weather Station.
    It has been on line 7/24 since 2004 when I stated to play around with Personal Weather Stations.




    Why do you need a newer card? I'd try to run something around that era, probably nothing newer than GTX 7000 series on Nvidia's side and HD 1000 series on the ATI side.
     
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    Grab an AMD HD 5450 (512 MB or 1 GB). All major OS' are supported. It's the best value card out there for light purposes. It even comes with an extra low profile bracket.

    I through away 3 ATI Cards that would have worked but have move over to NVIDIA now.
    I did give ATI now AMD a 4th chance with a pair of R2 290X Cards though.




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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/18 10:03:10 (permalink)
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    What was wrong with them?


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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/18 12:12:11 (permalink)
    What motherbaord ya got? Id just go with a cheap AMD GPU that ur motherbord suports, like PCIe 1.0, 2.0 or 3.0
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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/18 12:50:06 (permalink)
    A Precision T3400 and a PowerEdge SC 440 Server with OptiPlex 330 as a backup.
    ATM all have Windows XP installed
    The Precision T3400 has the GTX 550Ti installed
    The OptiPlex 330 has the Quadro FX 540 installed
     
    The PowerEdge SC 440 has the ATI Redeon 1300 installed
    I had to fire up to see what ATI Card was installed so I updated the Virus software from June 2015 to today.
     
    I Surprise by Windows Update though. 

     
     
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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/18 18:30:53 (permalink)
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    A Precision T3400 and a PowerEdge SC 440 Server with OptiPlex 330 as a backup.
    ATM all have Windows XP installed
    The Precision T3400 has the GTX 550Ti installed
    The OptiPlex 330 has the Quadro FX 540 installed
     
    The PowerEdge SC 440 has the ATI Redeon 1300 installed
    I had to fire up to see what ATI Card was installed so I updated the Virus software from June 2015 to today.
     
    I Surprise by Windows Update though. 

     
     


    how long before they just push it down as a required updated, what a shame i used to like skype until M$ bought it.

                                   
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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/18 18:34:20 (permalink)
    Under Windows XP VISTA 7 and 8.x you can hide updates and they never come back for the most part.

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/18 23:26:00 (permalink)
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    What was wrong with them?


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    Like the ones on the reference models?
     
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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/19 08:14:20 (permalink)
    I do now stay away from Sapphire for the most part. 4 out of 4 fans have died now.
    I am good to go until at least 2020 as I picked up a few NVIDIA GT Cards for now that is.

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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/21 07:38:53 (permalink)
    go to Vogons.org, its a community dedicated to excatly what your doing, just be warned, once you enter you will end up owning a 486 :P
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    Re: Looking for drivers for an old video card. 2017/02/21 08:52:14 (permalink)
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    go to Vogons.org, its a community dedicated to excatly what your doing, just be warned, once you enter you will end up owning a 486 :P


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