Corporate Zombie » Nvidia 6200 http://faolain.net/corporate_zombie Welcome to the world of Beige! Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:31:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Dual Monitor Woes! http://faolain.net/corporate_zombie/2008/03/12/dual-monitor-woes http://faolain.net/corporate_zombie/2008/03/12/dual-monitor-woes#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:47:56 +0000 admin http://faolain.net/corporate_zombie/2008/03/12/dual-monitor-woes/ I had a job yesterday to install 7 6200 PCI cards (PCI, not PCI-E, that wasnt a typo).

All machines were Fujitsu Siemens x102 Desktops. All had onboard SIS graphics.

All but 2 went without issue. I was having serious frustrations with the drivers between the SIS and the Nvidia.

On all others I installed the nvidia drivers without issue. But on two machines, when i went to the display settings, i would get a “this driver is not for this version of windows, using Default VGA Driver” (the actual error was longer than that, but thats the drift of it).

So i first updated the SIS drivers. No go

After some head scratching the solution presented itself, rather round-aboutly!

I removed all of the drivers for all VGA cards

I set the PCI card as the Primary Video Card in the Phoenix BIOS.

Start windows. Install Nvidia drivers first. Restart. install SIS drivers. All working lovely.

A BIOS flash was required on one of the machines to show the option to disable the onboard graphics.

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