- Jan 13, 2015
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So, i am upgrading a very old PC to keep it for oldish/very oldish games, and i just salvaged this... thing. The label is so worn out, i could only read "Inno3D" and DDR2 "64bit 512mb". Considering i previously had Sapphire Radeon 9250, i said "hell, why not" and plugged it in.
Guess what? BSOD.
Well. Actually, PC booted quite okay, only that there was additional videocard' BIOS loadscreen for some reason (never seen any card doing that before). After Win7 loaded, it recognised the card, installed some internal windows drivers, and said reboot was nesessary. Ok, reload, and now after "loading windows" there is blue screen instead of "welcome". Error code is 0x00000116, refers to nvlddmkm.sys.
Then i, using safe mode, tried installing various Nvidia drivers, went from v309.08 to as far back as v280.26. Same result. 6200 is listed as compatible with i865PE chipset hence with p4p800 system board.
So now i am stuck in situation where my card works (more or less) without drivers and refuses to do so with driver installed. And i am definitely not crazy about deleting windows drivers in device manager every single time i boot this PC.
Interesting fact is that i googled this card and it seems such cooler was never installed on actual 6200's, it is from GT210. That conforms to the fact of this card was made in March 2012 (acoording to other label on bottom). Despite this, BIOS loadscreen clearly says "GeForce 6200 BIOS", and it is an AGP card no doubt. Maybe one of very late revisions? But who would still demand AGP card in 2012...
The card itself, by the way, seems to be intact, except the DVI port is mechanically damaged. I did not check its operability. VGA port seems to work fine.
May anybody suggest some other options to make it work as it should?
P.S. CPU is P4 Prescott Core 2.8GHz HT mPGA478.
And the Win7 is Home Premium fresh install.
P.P.S.
ATI software was completely removed before.
Guess what? BSOD.
Well. Actually, PC booted quite okay, only that there was additional videocard' BIOS loadscreen for some reason (never seen any card doing that before). After Win7 loaded, it recognised the card, installed some internal windows drivers, and said reboot was nesessary. Ok, reload, and now after "loading windows" there is blue screen instead of "welcome". Error code is 0x00000116, refers to nvlddmkm.sys.
Then i, using safe mode, tried installing various Nvidia drivers, went from v309.08 to as far back as v280.26. Same result. 6200 is listed as compatible with i865PE chipset hence with p4p800 system board.
So now i am stuck in situation where my card works (more or less) without drivers and refuses to do so with driver installed. And i am definitely not crazy about deleting windows drivers in device manager every single time i boot this PC.
Interesting fact is that i googled this card and it seems such cooler was never installed on actual 6200's, it is from GT210. That conforms to the fact of this card was made in March 2012 (acoording to other label on bottom). Despite this, BIOS loadscreen clearly says "GeForce 6200 BIOS", and it is an AGP card no doubt. Maybe one of very late revisions? But who would still demand AGP card in 2012...
The card itself, by the way, seems to be intact, except the DVI port is mechanically damaged. I did not check its operability. VGA port seems to work fine.
May anybody suggest some other options to make it work as it should?
P.S. CPU is P4 Prescott Core 2.8GHz HT mPGA478.
And the Win7 is Home Premium fresh install.
P.P.S.
ATI software was completely removed before.
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