I looked at that board and it’s amusing – you could replace that with the 23.11s on some of the boards I have seen.

What I recommended was based on personal experience. The 21.83 drivers are certified by Microsoft and are digitally signed, which means they went through a more intensive process than the current ones. Regardless of that I have many problems where the 23.11 drivers do NOT repaint the screen correctly, which was also a problem with the stock XP drivers when I first used them. I have also had a blue screen or two when an application uses DirectDraw although I can’t replicate the problem.

Since you have System Restore, create a checkpoint before you install the drivers, whichever you choose – and remember that even without it you have an option in XP to roll back the driver to the previous version. Both of these features work. Use them. And definitely try the drivers on for size. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

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Sorry, didn’t know how to make a hyperlink out of the previous address

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Don’t worry about it… So that you know, the 1-click TagPanel on each post will show you how to do this. It’s extremely similar HTML code, if you know that at all….Link Text, but replace the with [ ].

I’ll upload it this evening for you, and post the link here.

For the record, the driver that comes with XP isn’t really poor – but it’s also very plain-vanilla and doesn’t enable hardware acceleration amongst a few other things. Its primary purpose is to provide stability and compatibility, and it’s not optimized as the new ones are. Once you get the new driver installed, let me know what your experiences with it are.

Cheers,

Icons rearranging themselves when changing resolutions is a problem that has plagued all versions of Windows. I know of no way to stop it, but you can get WinTidy (Mercury Freeware #31) which allows you to Save and Restore any desktop icon arrangements. It sits in the systray, and if you add new icons but forget to save, it will remind you.

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Hi,
I’ve just entered the NVidia site and discovered the . You have to click in Drivers Archive.
Regards

Edited by WyllyWylly to create a link to the driver and the archive

Thanks Ricardo, they had it hidden pretty well….out there in plain sight on the left-hand side. But at least now we all know where to find it, straight from the people who created it!

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Have I missed the link or haven’t you gotten around to posting it yet?

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ummmm…errrm…..I am terribly sorry it took me so doggone long. You’ve missed nothing, but you have stumbled across what happens when I don’t put something down in my planner, or do it right away.

They are up there now….and here is the link for you:

http://www.broge.com/download/nvidia/2183/winxp_21.83.exe

FYI, these are for both Windows 2000 and XP.

That is great news – does this mean that the icons have stopped organizing themselves according to the allignment of the planets and the phase of the moon?