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NVIDIA Drivers: Where to Get and How to Install
You’ve recently had to reformat your hard drive, install your operating system, and you’ve lost the installation disk for your NVIDIA video card. Or, you just want to upgrade to the latest drivers for your card. Doing either of these can be easier than you think, and can be done in a matter of minutes.
Which NVIDIA Video Card
If the device is not already installed, it will be necessary to remember the NVIDIA type of video card you have. Was it a GeForce, GeForce M/Go, Quadro, nForce, Tesla, or a Legacy? If none of these sound familiar to you, you may want to go digging through all your old paperwork for the manual, or even the invoice.
Go to the NVIDIA website, click ‘Download Drivers’ right under the company logo. On the drivers download page you will have two options. The first is to manually search for the drivers you need. With this choice you will need to know the product type, product series, your operating system, and choose the language.
The NVIDIA Website
Choose your options, and then click the search button. When the next page appears, look for your driver. For example: You have a GeForce 5 FX series video card. Click search, and on the next you’ll see the driver details, size of download, and the version number. Below that, under the Release Highlights tab, you’ll notice that the driver also supports the GeForce 6, 7, 8, and 9 series GPUs (Graphics Processing Unit).
Read the NVIDIA Software License Agreement, check the box which states that you agree, and click the Download Now button. Depending on your internet connection speed, this could take a while.
With Windows XP or Vista you may see a drop down security box. Right click it, and then click on Download file. You’ll then get a pop up box which asks you whether you want to Run the file from its current location, Save it to your hard drive, or Cancel. (On older Windows operating systems the options are the same except there won’t be a security warning.)
If you have a fast connection, choose the Run option. This will install the drivers on your computer directly from the NVIVIA website. Please note: If you’re using Windows Vista, you will also have to have administrator privileges, and click to continue.
Saving it to your hard drive will save you time later if you make a drivers CD for your computer. Doing this will require you to double-click the installation exe file, and then you will need to follow directions from there on.
Alternatively you can Find and Update NVIDIA Drivers Automatically
The second option, new to the NVIDIA website and still in prerelease, is to automatically find the drivers. This option may not work for you until the official release. NVIDIA makes a wide variety of graphics cards and motherboards, so you will have to choose whether to download the graphics drivers (In the case of a video card), and the motherboard drivers (If you have a motherboard with an NVIDIA chipset).
In the event you can’t find information about your NVIDIA graphics card because it came as part of a major retailer’s system (Dell or eMachines for example), click the support button at the top-right of the screen. Look to the left of the screen, and click Hardware Support. You will be presented with two options there. Click the More Info button under the one which states that your NVIDIA graphics card or motherboard came as part of a computer purchase. Click the type of computer you have, and then follow the directions from there.
After installing your new drivers, rebooting your computer, and setting up the options you want, go and have fun on your computer.
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