Posted: 3/19/2015 6:31:38 PM EDT
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so, long story short....
dell computer, inspiron 530, 2007-8 manufacture, originally had windows vista....upgraded from 4 gb ram to 8gb because...reasons...i let my father in law re-format the machine into a linux ubuntu machine a few years ago.....it didn't do what i wanted, but worked well enough for internet so i was content. then came the ubuntu update that jacked everything up and it bacame unusable. yesterday i installed windows xp, I know there's no support, but i have all service packs, and drivers on a thumb drive and everything has installed and updated perfectly.... except i can't find a driver for the video card......the card isn't OEM, it's a replacement my FIL put in when he did the overhaul because the other was burned out. the only thing resembling a model number i can see on the physical card in the case is LR2A22 PCB REV:A ASSY REV:A1 device manager doesn't know what it is, nor does dxdiag.... am i screwed and need a new card? |
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the only thing resembling a model number i can see on the physical card in the case is LR2A22 PCB REV:A ASSY REV:A1 device manager doesn't know what it is, nor does dxdiag.... Neither does Google. Do you need a GPU? I don't know without looking if that model has an integrated one or not. Out of curiosity what was wrong with Ubuntu that caused you to go to XP? Or just go back to Vista? Still a little more modern than XP and still gets security updates. ETA: better Googlers under this post. 
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First result on Google.
LR2A22 Leadtek Geforce 6600 256MB DDR2 PCI-E Video Card, P/N: LR2A22 NVIDIA GeForce GPU: 6600 GPU/Memory Clock: 300/250 MHz Memory: DDR2 256MB Output: DVI, VGA, Video out Memory Interface: 128-bit Pipeline: 8 Data Bandwidth(GB/sec.): 8.8 Fill Rate (billion texels/sec.): 2.4 Vertices/sec. (million): 225 Pixels per clock (peak): 8 RAMDAC: 400MHz RAMDACs Technology: 0.11 Micron Process Technology Slot: PCI Express Link to WinXP Drivers. http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/57493/en-us |
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I think it has an Nvidia GeForce 6600 chip set. See it this link helps.
http://www.geforce.com/drivers |
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Neither does Google. Do you need a GPU? I don't know without looking if that model has an integrated one or not. Out of curiosity what was wrong with Ubuntu that caused you to go to XP? Or just go back to Vista? Still a little more modern than XP and still gets security updates. ETA: better Googlers under this post. Quoted:
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the only thing resembling a model number i can see on the physical card in the case is LR2A22 PCB REV:A ASSY REV:A1 device manager doesn't know what it is, nor does dxdiag.... Neither does Google. Do you need a GPU? I don't know without looking if that model has an integrated one or not. Out of curiosity what was wrong with Ubuntu that caused you to go to XP? Or just go back to Vista? Still a little more modern than XP and still gets security updates. ETA: better Googlers under this post. no video games (wine sucks) and flash is iffy... then the update that i wasn't supposed to install, i forgot and installed....so that screwed everything... |
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i stopped reading at windows xp. pull head from ass install 7. This, or even 8.1 if you're feeling up to it. At least you've got a much better chance of it properly identifying your hardware. ETA: Unless you're using a 64-bit vrsion of XP (which sucked ass), you're only going to get the use of about 3.5GB of your 8GB RAM. |
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This, or even 8.1 if you're feeling up to it. At least you've got a much better chance of it properly identifying your hardware. ETA: Unless you're using a 64-bit vrsion of XP (which sucked ass), you're only going to get the use of about 3.5GB of your 8GB RAM. Quoted:
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i stopped reading at windows xp. pull head from ass install 7. This, or even 8.1 if you're feeling up to it. At least you've got a much better chance of it properly identifying your hardware. ETA: Unless you're using a 64-bit vrsion of XP (which sucked ass), you're only going to get the use of about 3.5GB of your 8GB RAM. This is correct. I'm a huge Windows XP guy and hung on to it FOR YEARS but it isn't going to be real great. |
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no video games (wine sucks) and flash is iffy... then the update that i wasn't supposed to install, i forgot and installed....so that screwed everything... Quoted:
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the only thing resembling a model number i can see on the physical card in the case is LR2A22 PCB REV:A ASSY REV:A1 device manager doesn't know what it is, nor does dxdiag.... Neither does Google. Do you need a GPU? I don't know without looking if that model has an integrated one or not. Out of curiosity what was wrong with Ubuntu that caused you to go to XP? Or just go back to Vista? Still a little more modern than XP and still gets security updates. ETA: better Googlers under this post. no video games (wine sucks) and flash is iffy... then the update that i wasn't supposed to install, i forgot and installed....so that screwed everything... Install Google Chrome to fix flash. Video games on anything other than Windows suck. |
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First result on Google. LR2A22 Leadtek Geforce 6600 256MB DDR2 PCI-E Video Card, P/N: LR2A22 NVIDIA GeForce GPU: 6600 GPU/Memory Clock: 300/250 MHz Memory: DDR2 256MB Output: DVI, VGA, Video out Memory Interface: 128-bit Pipeline: 8 Data Bandwidth(GB/sec.): 8.8 Fill Rate (billion texels/sec.): 2.4 Vertices/sec. (million): 225 Pixels per clock (peak): 8 RAMDAC: 400MHz RAMDACs Technology: 0.11 Micron Process Technology Slot: PCI Express Link to WinXP Drivers. http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/57493/en-us There ya go. Google really can be your friend, you know. |
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First result on Google. LR2A22 Leadtek Geforce 6600 256MB DDR2 PCI-E Video Card, P/N: LR2A22 NVIDIA GeForce GPU: 6600 GPU/Memory Clock: 300/250 MHz Memory: DDR2 256MB Output: DVI, VGA, Video out Memory Interface: 128-bit Pipeline: 8 Data Bandwidth(GB/sec.): 8.8 Fill Rate (billion texels/sec.): 2.4 Vertices/sec. (million): 225 Pixels per clock (peak): 8 RAMDAC: 400MHz RAMDACs Technology: 0.11 Micron Process Technology Slot: PCI Express Link to WinXP Drivers. http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/57493/en-us the first google result for me was an ebay listing...... at any rate, this seems to have worked! i tried using nvidias website scan tool, but the machine couldn't read the site..... thanks a bunch..... |
| And if you do insist on XP (you shouldn't), go ahead and do the hack here: LINK, use a modern web browser such as Chrome or Firefox, use a good antivirus such as Bitdefender Free (not Win Security Essentials), and uninstall Java. |
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i know xp isn't the opportune system to be running in 2015...
but my needs for a home pc are: look at internet, watch youtube, play games made before 2005
i have the reinstallation disk for vista but didn't really want to put that back on....i had issues back in the day with some of my older games...i don't play often, but i like the older stuff. |
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And if you do insist on XP (you shouldn't), go ahead and do the hack here: LINK, use a modern web browser such as Chrome or Firefox, use a good antivirus such as Bitdefender Free (not Win Security Essentials), and uninstall Java. i've always used firefox.....installing it now, just hadn't got that far until i fixed the driver issue..... is bitdefender free a better option than avg? |
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i know xp isn't the opportune system to be running in 2015... but my needs for a home pc are: look at internet, watch youtube, play games made before 2005
i have the reinstallation disk for vista but didn't really want to put that back on....i had issues back in the day with some of my older games...i don't play often, but i like the older stuff. If you have to have Xp, install Win 7 and use the MS Virtual machine in Xp mode. |
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i've always used firefox.....installing it now, just hadn't got that far until i fixed the driver issue..... is bitdefender free a better option than avg? Quoted:
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And if you do insist on XP (you shouldn't), go ahead and do the hack here: LINK, use a modern web browser such as Chrome or Firefox, use a good antivirus such as Bitdefender Free (not Win Security Essentials), and uninstall Java. i've always used firefox.....installing it now, just hadn't got that far until i fixed the driver issue..... is bitdefender free a better option than avg? Avira or Bitdefender were rated well by av-test.org for XP protection. Both have free versions. |
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Avira or Bitdefender were rated well by av-test.org for XP protection. Both have free versions. Quoted:
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And if you do insist on XP (you shouldn't), go ahead and do the hack here: LINK, use a modern web browser such as Chrome or Firefox, use a good antivirus such as Bitdefender Free (not Win Security Essentials), and uninstall Java. i've always used firefox.....installing it now, just hadn't got that far until i fixed the driver issue..... is bitdefender free a better option than avg? Avira or Bitdefender were rated well by av-test.org for XP protection. Both have free versions. great, thanks! |
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If you have to have Xp, install Win 7 and use the MS Virtual machine in Xp mode. Quoted:
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i know xp isn't the opportune system to be running in 2015... but my needs for a home pc are: look at internet, watch youtube, play games made before 2005
i have the reinstallation disk for vista but didn't really want to put that back on....i had issues back in the day with some of my older games...i don't play often, but i like the older stuff. If you have to have Xp, install Win 7 and use the MS Virtual machine in Xp mode. I hear ya.....but then I'd have to buy an OS...... |