I dont know how helpful this is..but, i have a toshiba tecra m2 laptpp with a GeForce FX 5200 . When i tried to install 96.85, it said that it couldnt find the product. After searching endlessly, I ended up finding a modified nvidia graphics driver (Laptopvideo2go.com) since nvidia stopped supporting my card. When I installed this thing, I can now run Aero and furthermore I'm getting better resolutions out of my card than I ever did. Now I'm not advocating this, but in my case, it really helped the performance of 7 for me. Just my 2 cents.
Can someone provide the actual instructions to get a GeForce 5200 card to work with Windows 7? I have a Toshiba Laptop (Satellite M35-S320). Does the PC maker even make a difference? What driver and what INF file do I need to install to make my card work with Win 7? Please provide the installation instructions too.
Nvidia Geforce Fx 5200 Driver Update
Come to find out my NVIDIA GForce FX5200 had no driver update for that specific video card that worked on 7... Researched everywhere and no one had the answer.. SO, for shits and giggles I tried the Vista version update of that video card, and IT WORKED. THANK GOD.
My laptop is a Toshiba satellite P25 series running w7 and Nvidia Geforce fx Go 5200 graphic card. I have also explored the web looking for a solution to this problem but without luck. I modified the original 96.85 driver (only 2 files are requiered); after installing, the screen resolution is the one recommended by Microsoft (1440x900) but Aero has to be disabled so that the system doesnt fail, although from time to time the screen blinks but nothing serious.
Dr. Data, thank you as well. 6 months later and I'm benifiting from your suggestion. I have been trying to get my GeForce FX 5500 card working in a PCI slot. I have a Windows 7 system in which the Geforce Nvidia driver for it, is only updated up to cover Vista, but there is no GeForce driver indicated for Windwos 7 on their site for these older video cards. I add what many have said, your system is too old for Windows 7 devices to work. Well, I got it working. I had the same message that Svuldruck was having in getting the Vista driver to download to try to use it for Windows 7- I think it was saying something like: Setup had detected the OS is not Vista and would not let me install that driver. As you said Dr. Data, run the updates and then it should take and it did and installed. But now I wanted to know that it applied that driver to that video card. To make sure, I went into Start, right clicked on My Computer, select Manage, selected Device Manager, found the Display video card that I plugged in, then Uninstalled Driver for it. Then I had to refresh by right clicking on the Display Adapters and pressed Scan for Hardware Changes, give it time as it took a few seconds and finally, after doing it a couple times actually, I saw the screen flicker and the video card showed up in there again. Perhaps I did not need to Uninstall Drivers at all, because it immediately showed it as having drivers associated with it as it gave me an option to Update Drivers, but not just to install drivers. Anyhows, so then I clicked on Update Drivers, then clicked on the option to find the drivers myself on the system and then found where the Vista driver was and applied that. Then it made me restart the system to apply changes. It appeared to apply changes, but still when I'd switch the monitor cord from the onboard video to the video card, nothing but no screen or monitor registering. However, the system was starting up or happening because I could switch the cord back to the onboard video and everything shows up.
The solution was ridiculously simple, in my case. My mom had plugged in both the DVI and VGA cables from her monitor to the 5200 FX's ports, and while switching between the two input modes in the monitor's menu, it occurred to me that it might be worth loading up the 96.85 driver again and switching modes when I got to the black screen. Eureka! I toggled the monitor's input/source button, and the black screen was replaced by Windows' log-in screen.
In Windows 7 I've installed last XP/2000 drivers for Geforce FX serie (175.16), downloaded from Nvidia site, by manually update, choosing the folder where the setup extracted them. They work perfectly.
I have NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200, and have not been able to get it installed. I've found the driver at NVIDIA but couldn't figure out how to actually install it. I found instructions that used apt-get to automatically find the current driver and install it, and that came close. At least then it showed up in the 3rd party drivers list. It said it was installed but not being used? And I was unable to find out why that might be, or how to get the system to use it
EDIT:They've now released an updated driver for 32bit systems, 173.14.35. You can grab it from the launchpad site ( +source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-173-updates/173.14.35-0ubuntu1/+build/3597638). It installed easily, and so far I haven't run into any glitches!
EDIT:For what it's worth, this fix covers a LOT of legacy nvidia products. Here's a list of devices that use (require) 173.14.xx drivers (from www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-173.14.31-driver.html):
If you've already run the apt-get method for the current driver by installing 'nvidia-current', you should be fine. You can confirm by typing in nvidia-settings into Terminal and launching that or by launching Additional Drivers from the Dash Home menu.
I'm using an Nvidia Quadro 600 and since I was frustrated that I couldn't get a 120hz 1080p resolution option with the GUI installed nvidia-current drivers, I decided to use the above mentioned APT method (listed on a different site) to install the 302.17 drivers for the Quadro 600, which of course broke X due to being an unsupported driver and on my system Nouveau was removed (by the nvidia install?).So I had nothing to fall back on.
As a noob, I was unable to remove the incorrect modules with the command line which resulted in a fresh install with no Nvidia card attached, then shutdown, install the Nvidia card and use the GUI to add the nvidia-current drivers to get 1080p and everything works. (I'm sure there was a better/easier/faster way but this was all I could figure out by myself).
To install the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Video Card driver, download the version of the driver that corresponds to your operating systemby clicking on the appropriate link above. A window should then show up asking you where you would like to save the file. Save the driver file somewhereon your computer where you will be easily able to find it, such as your desktop. Then follow the instructions below corresponding to the file type that youdownloaded
I have tried two methods for installing Nvidia drivers on my machine. The first is using the .run installer file directly from Nvidia's website. The second is using a nvidia-173_*.deb package file from Ubuntu package archives and installing it with dpkg.
I added deb [allow-insecure=yes] trusty main to /etc/apt/sources.list to access Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr software repositories because the nvidia-173 driver is in those repositories. (yes I am aware that this is very dumb but I am trying everything)
Non free means something, it means nobody has access to the source code of legacy eol drivers, so they can't be updated or fixed or patched, they are binary blobs, period. Sometimes you can do light patching if you know how to do it, but you can't make a kernel or xorg that isn't supported at all work.
The GeForce FX 5200 Ultra suffers the same stuttering at the start of the benchmark demo as the vanilla GeForce FX 5200. Thanks to our lovely graphs, NVIDIA is aware of the issue and has pledged to fix it in the next Detonator FX driver release. Apparently, the problem occurs only with NV34, NV17, and NV18-based graphics products, which suggests the NV34 might have a GeForce2-class core with a programmable shader tacked on.
Many device drivers are not updated through the Microsoft Windows Update service. If you are having trouble finding the right driver, stop searching and fix driver problems faster with the Automatic Driver Update Utility. Automatic updates could save you hours of time.
Contents Key features Cost Note : It seems that this driver hasn't been updated for several years - the version linked to this page is the latest to exist, so do not bother searching any further. What are the key features...
Trying to get video with an FX Go 5200 myself on 98 and not having a good time of it. If you would be so kind as to share that driver & exactly how you modified whatever files were necessary that would be super frigging awesome. I've got a Dell Inspiron 8600 here in great shape but I can't get that driver worked out, I have no idea how to edit infs or things like that. I would be very grateful.
I can't seem to get this driver working on my hp zd7340ea (fx go5200)When i install it, it crashes right away and says that it can't find the pci id in nvuwml.inf.it just installs as%NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.1%
; Localizable StringsNVIDIA = "NVIDIA"NVIDIA_NV18.DEV_0186.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go"NVIDIA_NV18.DEV_0186.2 = "NVIDIA GeForce4 448 Go "NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031A.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600"NVIDIA_NV31.DEV_031A.2 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600 "NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200"NVIDIA_NV34.DEV_0324.2 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 "NVIDIA_NV36.DEV_0347.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700"DiskID1 = "NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 1"DiskID2 = "NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 2"DiskID3 = "NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 3"DiskID4 = "NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 4"DiskID5 = "NVIDIA Windows 2000/XP Driver Library Installation Disk 5"NVSVC.name = "NVIDIA Display Driver Service"NVSVC.desc = "Provides system and desktop level support to the NVIDIA display driver"NVUninstall.desc = "NVIDIA Display Driver" 2ff7e9595c
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