No XP drivers for 8800GT on 1st gen w/ Boot Camp?

[Hmac]

I just installed a 1st gen compatible 8800GT on my 1st gen Mac Pro. The appropriate drivers self-installed on OSX, but I have no clue how to get this card recognized by XP running on my Boot Camp partition. I tried downloading 167.44 as recommended by Apple at http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1442 but it wouldn't install. I downloaded 169.25 from Nvidia - likewise it won't install. In both cases it reports that "no drivers are found that are compatible with this hardware".

Any ideas before I pop the 1900XT back in?

 

[wgilles]

You might wanna give one of those driver scanner things a try. http://www.driveragent.com is good, I think they make you pay, but it tells you if it found a driver first...just an idea.

 

[Hmac]

Thanks.

My suspicion is that, unless I'm missing something here, the 8800GT was released with drivers that work fine on the Mac, don't work with Intel Mac hardware running Windows XP.

 

[NATO]

Go to http://www.guru3d.com and download the latest ForceWare Beta drivers, they will install fine with the new 8800GT card.

Here's a direct link : Windows XP 32-bit (There's equivalent downloads for Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit on the site)

 

[Hmac]

Go to http://www.guru3d.com and download the latest ForceWare Beta drivers, they will install fine with the new 8800GT card.

Here's a direct link : Windows XP 32-bit (There's equivalent downloads for Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit on the site)

Nice. Thanks very much. That did it.

 

[OZMP]

didnt work for me