2003 video driver and wide screen support

[kczealot]

Our wonderful IS department just graced us developers with 24" widescreen flat panels. However all of our simulators run Windows 2003 (32 bit). I can not seem to find any Nvidia driver that will install on the system and the standard Microsoft VGA drivers will not allow 1920x1200. Has anyone out there found a solution to this?

I can basically buy what ever card I want for less than 250$. This is going to go in 20 different machines so I am trying to stay less than 100$. Right now I have the PCI-E EVGA 7300 GS. The problem I am running into though is I can never even get an Nvidia driver to install so I can not even see if the card works. The driver installation gets part way through and then tells me the driver does not support the OS. Is there 2003 drivers somewhere else that I am missing? Is there some reg edit I need to make to get it to install a basic driver somewhere?

The other frustrating part is in our similar but older sim we have a MX4000 AGP running driver 8.1.9.8 on 2003 and it supports the widescreen format just fine. Unfortunately that was setup by the individual I replaced so I have no idea if he had to "hack" something to get it to work.

Thanks so much for responding and I hope the information helps.

 

[markdmac]

I believe you will need to try loading an XP driver which should "hopefully" work under WIndows 2003.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[kczealot]

Tried that and Nvidia drivers now do a check before they install and kick me out. If anyone knows of drivers without the install shield that would be great