gateway q6600 missing drivers

[Midknyte]

That is bizarre. And it's definitely Vista 32-bit?

You can try the old drivers from the Gateway site, but they are 3 years old.

VGA Driver NVIDIA 169.02 57.4 MB 07/26/2010
http://global-download.gateway.com/G...TEWAY&SC=PA_6G

[terryZ]

yes, it's 32-bit. bought in spring of 2009. and i agree it is bizarre (especially having nvidia check my card for an appropriate driver). i'll follow your gateway link and try there as a last resort this weekend. if it doesn't work i'm not going to worry about it since this is my home "backup" pc. maybe i'll revisit this at a later time.

thanks again, midknyte and train!

you may not remember but i was the one posting in the xp forum a few weeks ago about the "missing or corrupted hal.dll" problem on my work pc's boot-up. it had symantec's go-back installed (http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...rupted-hal-dll). you or train pointed out to me that xp will be unsupported come next spring. this particular pc came with both windows xp AND windows 7 installation discs.

so, i'm going to do a fresh install of 7 on it next week and try the xp mode. there are two legacy qbasic systems that we need to retain.

so you MAY be seeing me in the windows 7 forum then.

thanks again. you all are the best!

[Train]

Good luck and yes, we well remember the go-back mess. <shudder>

[terryZ]

That is bizarre. And it's definitely Vista 32-bit?

...

VGA Driver NVIDIA 169.02 57.4 MB 07/26/2010
http://global-download.gateway.com/G...TEWAY&SC=PA_6G

i tried this but in vain.

i was getting the following error message as the complaint from windows: "display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered". i'd get it two or three times and then the solid color screen. i googled the message and some say it's an overheating graphics card.

in any case, it's in the closed as a backup pc now. if i get truly bored i'll drag it out and revisit this.

again, thanks for all the time and effort here. i'll see you on the windows 7 forum this week.

*waves"