Compaq R3000 with XP64-bit

Shadowsilence · Posted: Sun, 08 May 2005 19:29:57 Post Subject: Compaq R3000 with XP64-bit

I just loaded windows XP 64-bit onto my compaq laptop with a 3200+ A64. I'm having a few problems which is expected. My laptop has a geforce4 440 for a graphics card, but the Nvidia drivers don't work for it. Does anyone knowhow I can fix this? Also I need to load a Anti-virus on here, but AVG keeps getting an error and McAfee won't work with this OS. Any ideas anyone? Any help is greatly appreciated.

HackaX0rus · Posted: Sun, 08 May 2005 21:24:05 Post Subject:

i know you ahve to get 64 bt drivers for the graphics card...or so iw as told...off the top of my head i cant think of where to egt them besides nvidia.com

jake_johnson · Posted: Sun, 08 May 2005 22:06:09 Post Subject:

for the drivers to the gfx card try http://short-media.com/download.php?dc=64

as far as AV goes try avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/whats_new_in_avast_v.html#5

it is 64bit compatible.

I had problems trying to run avg on my athlon64 3200. So i instaled avast.

Shadowsilence · Posted: Sun, 08 May 2005 23:01:37 Post Subject:

Okay okay the A/V software worked like a charm. But I still can't get Nvidia drivers to load. But I told windows instead of it being a generic vga adapter, that it was a geforce4 440, it's now working pretty good without the nvidia donwloaded drivers.

IceNine · Posted: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:06:36 Post Subject:

Shadowsilence · Posted: Wed, 11 May 2005 14:04:25 Post Subject:

Yes I did, but I heard from a friend that even with the 64-bit drivers they don't support Geforce4 cards. A buddy of mine had to 'play' with the drivers to get them to accept his Geforce4 card. I guess Nvidia wants DX9 on 64-bit systems or something.

jake_johnson · Posted: Wed, 11 May 2005 16:30:23 Post Subject:

I am a ati man, I have no probs with my Power Color 9600 XT 256mb. But im glad u got a av running. What FW and IDS system u running.

Shadowsilence · Posted: Wed, 11 May 2005 21:45:36 Post Subject:

I'm not running anything but a A/V at the moment. The laptop is only hooked into the LAN when I'm using it. So there's no point in alot of security. I'm just getting it all ready so when I go somewhere I have a laptop to access my exteral hdd on, and surf my friends networks for cool stuff we can swap.

Crito · Rated PG Joined: 09 Jun 2005 Posts: 1

Read nVidia's website carefully! They do not provide drivers for ANY laptop graphics card, telling you to get them from the laptop manufacturer instead. In turn, HP/Compaq never release updated graphics drivers, no matter how buggy the ones they shipped with the unit are.

Anyone considering buying a Laptop with an NVidia card should be warned in advance that they'll be left completely out in the cold by both nVidia and HP/Compaq.

Luckily the guy at Omega drivers hacked the ofiicial nVidia drivers and got them to install on GO chips (drivers always worked, nVidia just crippled the install program.) You'll have to talk him into doing the 64-bit drivers.
http://www.omegadrivers.net/