Onboard graphics - Vista driver help!

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Hello there.

I have this motherboard with onboard NVidia nForce430 6100 graphics...

I downloaded and installed these drivers from the NVidia site.

Upon rebooting I kept getting a bluescreen error which would not go away until I stopped using the onboard gfx and had uninstalled the driver pack.

Any idea where I can find a working driver pack for this mobo's onboard gfx?

i am running Vista Ultimate 32-bit...I don't even want to game - I just want the thing to display at 1680 x1050 on my 20" monitor and for there to be no fuzziness of jagged edges on icons and text...
 
killadoob said:
can a 6100 onboard card od this?
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LOL :D, someone's been smoking the peace pipe this evening...

Anyway if you install the driver WITHOUT installing the graphics driver does it go into Windows and work and all that?

Because if that is the case it could be a easy fix...
 
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Gnome said:
LOL :D, someone's been smoking the peace pipe this evening...

Anyway if you install the driver WITHOUT installing the graphics driver does it go into Windows and work and all that?

Because if that is the case it could be a easy fix...
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Erm, I have not tried that? Why, what would be the fix?

Also, is this driver a better fit you reckon?
 
hj2k_x said:
Erm, I have not tried that? Why, what would be the fix?

Also, is this driver a better fit you reckon?
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That driver probably won't work, but I'm assuming you want the PC to work so your best bet is to download a nVidia Display Driver that's been modified to work with ALL the Graphics card models.

Lord only knows why they include only some of the video cards but I always download the modified drivers and have yet to experience issues. I think they force the older drivers on userd to try and force them to upgrade or something.

Anyway try these drivers:

Clicky

Guru3D usually modify the drivers to allow it to be installed with ANY nVidia video card.
 
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Gnome said:
That driver probably won't work, but I'm assuming you want the PC to work so your best bet is to download a nVidia Display Driver that's been modified to work with ALL the Graphics card models.

Lord only knows why they only include some video cards but I always download the modified drivers and have yet to experience issues. I think they force the older drivers on user to try and force them to upgrade or something.

Anyway try these drivers:

Clicky

Guru3D usually modify the drivers to allow it to be installed with ANY nVidia video card.
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Sweet.Shot!

I will give that a try. If i am gone for long, it means it hasn't worked :( ;)
 
If it DOES complain about your card not being supported download this file Clicky
and then replace it in the folder where you extracted the drivers to, and try and install again
 
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I also tried installing my chipset drivers (NF4), got a Blue Screen and had to format.

I'm sure the graphics card drivers are okay, it's probably the chipset ones, Vista 32bit as well.

So can you get the graphics drivers to install on their own?
 
it seems that this 6100 onboard is only 64MB and shares like 300MB of system RAM...Is there any chance that it will display a 22" screen at any kind of decent wide screen resolution?

There is already some distortion on vertical lines, which appear to have blue streaks in them, and that is running a 20" at 1680 x 1050...
 
Just buy a cheap second hand card to hold you over until you get a new card..

And yes, it can display 1680x1050 no problem.
 
feo said:
Just buy a cheap second hand card to hold you over until you get a new card..

And yes, it can display 1680x1050 no problem.
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Cool. Onboard gfx really isn't great :( I am looking at getting something like a 7300GT or something like that so long, or some silent cooling for my 8500GT...:)
 
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