GeForce 8500 GT

[Bloodraven]

<p>Been searching for a driver for this older card for my older machine for a friend can play while i play. Everything is set except video driver is outdated 2007. I checked on Nvidia and their driver wasnt compatible, wouldnt run LotR either.</p><p>I have WinXP 3SP along with 2MB on this older machine, i did however contact the company that design these video card i have, they arent answer any of my emails. Having problems register their website, only way to download drivers is to register their site. I can try to call them and see if that will help, doubt if it will. Oh the brand name is XFX.</p><p>So if anyone have this video card GeForce 8500GT 256mb, and ran fine on your pc, plz let me know where to locate that driver. Didnt want to buy another video card if this one work okay.</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Bloodraven@Vox wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Been searching for a driver for this older card for my older machine for a friend can play while i play. Everything is set except video driver is outdated 2007. I checked on Nvidia and their driver wasnt compatible, wouldnt run LotR either.</p><p>I have WinXP 3SP along with 2MB on this older machine, i did however contact the company that design these video card i have, they arent answer any of my emails. Having problems register their website, only way to download drivers is to register their site. I can try to call them and see if that will help, doubt if it will. Oh the brand name is XFX.</p><p>So if anyone have this video card GeForce 8500GT 256mb, and ran fine on your pc, plz let me know where to locate that driver. Didnt want to buy another video card if this one work okay.</p></blockquote><p>according to Nvidia's site this drive is supposed to be compatible with the 8500GT</p><p><a href="http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/44962">http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/44962</a></p><p>If you plug the specs that you stated here</p><p><a href="http://www.geforce.com/drivers">http://www.geforce.com/drivers</a></p><p>the link I posted above comes up. what is the compatiblity problem?</p>

[Bloodraven]

<p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bloodraven@Vox wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Been searching for a driver for this older card for my older machine for a friend can play while i play. Everything is set except video driver is outdated 2007. I checked on Nvidia and their driver wasnt compatible, wouldnt run LotR either.</p><p>I have WinXP 3SP along with 2MB on this older machine, i did however contact the company that design these video card i have, they arent answer any of my emails. Having problems register their website, only way to download drivers is to register their site. I can try to call them and see if that will help, doubt if it will. Oh the brand name is XFX.</p><p>So if anyone have this video card GeForce 8500GT 256mb, and ran fine on your pc, plz let me know where to locate that driver. Didnt want to buy another video card if this one work okay.</p></blockquote><p>according to Nvidia's site this drive is supposed to be compatible with the 8500GT</p><p><a href="http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/44962">http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/44962</a></p><p>If you plug the specs that you stated here</p><p><a href="http://www.geforce.com/drivers">http://www.geforce.com/drivers</a></p><p>the link I posted above comes up. what is the compatiblity problem?</p></blockquote><p>Thank you, believe i have already tried that driver from Nvidia.</p><p>Maybe have something to do with my OS that is not stable, it wouldnt update to Netframe 3.5. Sometimes it will crash blue screen then reboot. That i need to figure out what causing that before moving on.</p><p>I could however put WinVista 64bit, but needed more RAM and not sure if this mainboard will hold more than 2GB of RAM. Will it make a different? I know the video card isnt that great.</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Bloodraven@Vox wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bloodraven@Vox wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Been searching for a driver for this older card for my older machine for a friend can play while i play. Everything is set except video driver is outdated 2007. I checked on Nvidia and their driver wasnt compatible, wouldnt run LotR either.</p><p>I have WinXP 3SP along with 2MB on this older machine, i did however contact the company that design these video card i have, they arent answer any of my emails. Having problems register their website, only way to download drivers is to register their site. I can try to call them and see if that will help, doubt if it will. Oh the brand name is XFX.</p><p>So if anyone have this video card GeForce 8500GT 256mb, and ran fine on your pc, plz let me know where to locate that driver. Didnt want to buy another video card if this one work okay.</p></blockquote><p>according to Nvidia's site this drive is supposed to be compatible with the 8500GT</p><p><a href="http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/44962">http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/44962</a></p><p>If you plug the specs that you stated here</p><p><a href="http://www.geforce.com/drivers">http://www.geforce.com/drivers</a></p><p>the link I posted above comes up. what is the compatiblity problem?</p></blockquote><p>Thank you, believe i have already tried that driver from Nvidia.</p><p>Maybe have something to do with my OS that is not stable, it wouldnt update to Netframe 3.5. Sometimes it will crash blue screen then reboot. That i need to figure out what causing that before moving on.</p><p>I could however put WinVista 64bit, but needed more RAM and not sure if this mainboard will hold more than 2GB of RAM. Will it make a different? I know the video card isnt that great.</p></blockquote><p>Don;t even bother with Vista, the product is no longer supported at all by Microsoft and it is really a SDT in genral. If you upgrade go directly to Windows 7.</p><p>Some questions -</p><p>What is the blue screen that you are getting? If it is auto restarting go into the properties of My COmputer and turn off automaticly restart on blue screeen - if yo need more details on where this is ask, can provide detailed instructions</p><p>What is the error that you are getting whrn you try and install netframe?</p><p>How much free space is on Drive C?</p><p>Download Malwarebytes and run a full scan on the pc to make sure there is not a root kit that is causing problems.</p><p>I know that the new driver will work on the 8500, we still have a few of these in the office running XP-SP3 on a validated hardware configuration</p>

[Bloodraven]

<p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bloodraven@Vox wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Wingrider01 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Bloodraven@Vox wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Been searching for a driver for this older card for my older machine for a friend can play while i play. Everything is set except video driver is outdated 2007. I checked on Nvidia and their driver wasnt compatible, wouldnt run LotR either.</p><p>I have WinXP 3SP along with 2MB on this older machine, i did however contact the company that design these video card i have, they arent answer any of my emails. Having problems register their website, only way to download drivers is to register their site. I can try to call them and see if that will help, doubt if it will. Oh the brand name is XFX.</p><p>So if anyone have this video card GeForce 8500GT 256mb, and ran fine on your pc, plz let me know where to locate that driver. Didnt want to buy another video card if this one work okay.</p></blockquote><p>according to Nvidia's site this drive is supposed to be compatible with the 8500GT</p><p><a href="http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/44962">http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/44962</a></p><p>If you plug the specs that you stated here</p><p><a href="http://www.geforce.com/drivers">http://www.geforce.com/drivers</a></p><p>the link I posted above comes up. what is the compatiblity problem?</p></blockquote><p>Thank you, believe i have already tried that driver from Nvidia.</p><p>Maybe have something to do with my OS that is not stable, it wouldnt update to Netframe 3.5. Sometimes it will crash blue screen then reboot. That i need to figure out what causing that before moving on.</p><p>I could however put WinVista 64bit, but needed more RAM and not sure if this mainboard will hold more than 2GB of RAM. Will it make a different? I know the video card isnt that great.</p></blockquote><p>Don;t even bother with Vista, the product is no longer supported at all by Microsoft and it is really a SDT in genral. If you upgrade go directly to Windows 7.</p><p>Some questions -</p><p>What is the blue screen that you are getting? If it is auto restarting go into the properties of My COmputer and turn off automaticly restart on blue screeen - if yo need more details on where this is ask, can provide detailed instructions</p><p>What is the error that you are getting whrn you try and install netframe?</p><p>How much free space is on Drive C?</p><p>Download Malwarebytes and run a full scan on the pc to make sure there is not a root kit that is causing problems.</p><p>I know that the new driver will work on the 8500, we still have a few of these in the office running XP-SP3 on a validated hardware configuration</p></blockquote><p>Thank for keeping touch. The blue screens ususally take place at desktop, or trying to download or waiting til download, etcs. Its very strange and i never seen anything like that. This is the second times i formatted the harddrive and installing WinXP, it have updated all the way except Netframe3.5 for unknown reasons.</p><p>Drive D: have at least 35-40GB left, its a small capacity drive i got from newegg that is SATA. I did some test runs on disk check, ram check, etcs and couldnt find and problem.</p><p>I can try download this file on that pc and see what happen next.</p>

[Wingrider01]

<p><cite>Bloodraven@Vox wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Thank for keeping touch. The blue screens ususally take place at desktop, or trying to download or waiting til download, etcs. Its very strange and i never seen anything like that. This is the second times i formatted the harddrive and installing WinXP, it have updated all the way except Netframe3.5 for unknown reasons.</p><p>Drive D: have at least 35-40GB left, its a small capacity drive i got from newegg that is SATA. I did some test runs on disk check, ram check, etcs and couldnt find and problem.</p><p>I can try download this file on that pc and see what happen next.</p></blockquote><p>Blue screens are caused by a kernal level fault, which normally indicates hardwar or driver. There should be additional information if you remove the auto-restart function, or look in the system event log</p>