ASUS Motherboard/Win2K Server/NIC Drivers needed

[lejongleur]

I recently bought a Visionman Server which has an ASUS motherboard apparently with an NVidia chipset on it. I need to install Windows/2000 Server on this machine (already have the license), but the install CD's do not have the needed NVidia drivers (Nforce 610I/GForce 7050, apparently), so I cannot get the NIC to work yet.

When I use another machine to attempt to get the drivers, the NVidia site only seems to let me try to update the machine I am using, rather than to download the drivers so that I can transfer them via floppy to the new machine. I can't find a way round this. Any odeas would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks!!...Chris

 

[BadBigBen]

I do not know what nVidia website you visited, but you can manually choose the drivers to download from the nVidia website...

Option 1: Manually find drivers for my NVIDIA products

Problem is though that there is no W2k driver for the above chipset, so you will have to try the XP driver...



Ben

"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."

 

[wahnula]

Or, worst case, buy a new PCI $10 Gigabit NIC that comes with drivers for Win2K. Although it says Airnet, these are Realtek NICs, and work very well. I use a D-Link PCIe-based GbE NIC on my server, and am quite happy with it, but it depends on your budget which part you choose.

Tony

Users helping Users...

 

[lejongleur]

Thanks for all your help. I am going to try installing a separate NIC as suggested. Regards...Chris