GPU somehow changed from original 9800 GT to 8400GS. Now it won't register anything but 8400 GS won't return to 9800GT. HELP! Was attempting to install Crysis 2 when this occurred. Game failed to install properly and then noticed my GPU was changed. When I try to use nvidia website it keeps telling my I have an 8400 GS which is not true. I have had this card for several years and original is a 9800 GT. At least it was before this episode... any ideas to get my GPU back. No I don't have a restore point old enough to restore the original GPU. Sucks.
GeForce 9800 GT somehow was switched to 8400 GS
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Thanks for the response BUT if I had wanted to do that I would not have posted the problem about the GPU drivers being changed, The 9800 GT was serving me well for several years w/o problems until now. I don't want to buy a new computer component every time there might be a problem. I attempt to resolve the problem first.
There was nothing wrong with the original gpu. Some glitch or malware changed the drivers and if I can find the original drivers for 9800 GT I can resolve this problem myself. Does anyone know where I might get the drivers for a manual install myself? Thanks in advance for any helpful replies.
Thanks for the cmos reply but I don't believe resetting the cmos will revert the current (incorrect) drivers to original. I totally deleted the 8400 GS drivers and used system device to attempt to reset original drivers but it will not work because I don't have the original drivers. IF I can get the original drivers for my 9800 GT then I can manually reset the GPU back to original myself BUT I cannot locate the drivers after several searches.
Sorry about the repeated replies above. Kept trying to respond with different answers but am not familiar with the forum program and guess I may have been hitting the wrong button to submit my reply. Does anyone know where I might find the drivers for the 9800 GT/
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The drivers are a set, a single download contains all of the drivers for a vast array of cards, use the link http://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-uk
Fill out the form and it'll give you a list of drivers, the 8400GS would bring up the same list, perhaps excepting the latest couple.
Fill out the form and it'll give you a list of drivers, the 8400GS would bring up the same list, perhaps excepting the latest couple.
Thank all of you for the good suggestions. It used to be that a user had more control over their own equipment, but now the mfg's and corporations control whether we can even install the drivers we want. Even when I clear CMOS and the other suggestions the nvidia mfg controls the install and since the GPU currently says it is now a 8400 GS nvidea refuses to install the correct drivers onto the card. What ever hit my card left a permanent ID as being a 8400. So my only options are to live with the 8400GS which I will not do... OR ... buy a newer GPU which I will do since I've had the 9800GT for several years.
The mfg's reprogram their products to have a certain shelf-life and force you to upgrade for more expensive products now. I am 73 years old and if I could have had foresight to have kept the original drivers I have the skill to override and install back to a 9800GT, BUT... nvidea overrides all attempts to do that since the GPU now states that it is an 8400 GS. It saddens me that the younger generation seems to think that everything should be trashed and buy, buy ,buy newer and newer upgrades while the mfg's laugh all the way to the bank. I guess I'll simply put a new PNY GPU into this machine and stick with Linux instead of Micro-devil. (Just my opinion). There is more gaming prgs for MS for sure because they monopolized the market in it's earlier years BUT Linux is by far a much better OS for me.
AGAIN, I thank you all for your suggestions and wish you well. I will be leaving the forum as I only thought someone might have had the original drivers and not part of a useless pkg that nvidia controls whether I like it or not.
The mfg's reprogram their products to have a certain shelf-life and force you to upgrade for more expensive products now. I am 73 years old and if I could have had foresight to have kept the original drivers I have the skill to override and install back to a 9800GT, BUT... nvidea overrides all attempts to do that since the GPU now states that it is an 8400 GS. It saddens me that the younger generation seems to think that everything should be trashed and buy, buy ,buy newer and newer upgrades while the mfg's laugh all the way to the bank. I guess I'll simply put a new PNY GPU into this machine and stick with Linux instead of Micro-devil. (Just my opinion). There is more gaming prgs for MS for sure because they monopolized the market in it's earlier years BUT Linux is by far a much better OS for me.
AGAIN, I thank you all for your suggestions and wish you well. I will be leaving the forum as I only thought someone might have had the original drivers and not part of a useless pkg that nvidia controls whether I like it or not.
13thmonkey
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Stop being stroppy.
Nvidia have been packaging drivers life this since the 4000 series.
Something else has happened, that's what we need to figure out.
Step one open the box and have a look at the card.
Nvidia have been packaging drivers life this since the 4000 series.
Something else has happened, that's what we need to figure out.
Step one open the box and have a look at the card.
13thmonkey
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HI MONKEY,
I appreciate your enthusiasm but. I have even wiped the card totally clean and when I try to install the 9800 drivers... nvidia fails to accept the drivers as being compatible with the card. AND, yes you are right when the card was a 4000 it was still nvidia but the window OS was totally different then and allowed the user to have more control over their computer. Since then the user control has virtually disappeared. Now, if you can offer some viable option that will work around the cards ID now being a 8400 GS and nvidia not allowing any install for a 9800 GT then please advise. I am willing to listen to those who know! How can the cards original ID as a 9800 GT be restored when nvidia now refuses to allow the card to be fixed? I eagerly await your reply.
I appreciate your enthusiasm but. I have even wiped the card totally clean and when I try to install the 9800 drivers... nvidia fails to accept the drivers as being compatible with the card. AND, yes you are right when the card was a 4000 it was still nvidia but the window OS was totally different then and allowed the user to have more control over their computer. Since then the user control has virtually disappeared. Now, if you can offer some viable option that will work around the cards ID now being a 8400 GS and nvidia not allowing any install for a 9800 GT then please advise. I am willing to listen to those who know! How can the cards original ID as a 9800 GT be restored when nvidia now refuses to allow the card to be fixed? I eagerly await your reply.
By the way... I have removed the card and there is no ID as any version printed on the card. That is unless you know of some code that I might be unaware of. I have used the windows desktop for many years even then I started with computers when they were only TIMEX and commodores with text only and most people had never heard of the Internet. Forgot to mention that in the earlier reply.
I am now for several years mainly a Linux OS user but still maintained the win OS to play some games on that were not available in the Linux. Now microsoft (microdevil) and the computer mfg's have eroded the products so that they maintain control of what you use and often create problems so that users are almost forced to upgrade to more powerful, more expensive, etc. Whether you agree or not does not matter... it is a fact.
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