A9250GE/TD/256M/A windows 7 Drivers.

[KiwiMutant]

I have just purchased the aforementioned card (second hand) and installed it on my computer to replace the gefoce fx5200 which was giving me issues when trying to play Far Cry Delta Section.
Now, with the Asus A9250, when I double click the FC icon on my desktop I get an immediate Blue Screen crash. On reboot the windows help? (ha ha) says card does not support DirectX 9. On the box (card) it specifies dx9.
If I try to install the drivers from the supplied manufacturers disc it says \'Install service pack first.Install abort.\'
If I try to find drivers on the net it always (no matter what link I take) tries to download Driver Detective. Also my desktop will only run Win 7 Basic. Is it possible to get Win 7 supported drivers without Driver Detective or should I just reinstall FX5200? I thought I was upgrading?

Following is a brief description of my computer using Belarc Adviser.

Operating System
Windows 7 Home Premium (build 7600)

Processor (a)
3.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
16 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Hyper-threaded (2 total)

Main Circuit Board (b)
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P5VDC-MX 1.x/2.x
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0809 12/18/2007
Drives
660.14 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
402.90 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

DVDRW IDE 16X ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-E60L USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10N ATA Device [CD-ROM drive]
SCSI DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

ST3500418AS [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 6VM6RCPY, rev CC37, SMART Status: Healthy
WDC WD1600JB-98GVC0 [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAL97212326, rev 08.02D08, SMART Status: Healthy

Memory Modules c,d
1024 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' has 512 MB
Local Drive Volumes


c: (NTFS on drive 0) 160.03 GB 58.01 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 1) 500.11 GB 344.89 GB free

Display
ASUS A9250 [Display adapter]
ASUS A9250 Secondary [Display adapter]
DELL 1907FP [Monitor] (19.1"vis, s/n CC286612BDJT, January 2006)

Standard floppy disk controller
ATA Channel 0 [Controller] (2x)
ATA Channel 1 [Controller] (2x)
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller - 0571
VIA Serial ATA Controller - 3349

Please I need advice.

 

[Helltech]

I'm sure there is a driver/fix for your problem, but according to these threads, the difference in those two cards is so unnoticable that there is no point in going through the effort to try an fix your problem.

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3256754.php
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic29076.html

 

[KiwiMutant]

I'm sure there is a driver/fix for your problem, but according to these threads, the difference in those two cards is so unnoticable that there is no point in going through the effort to try an fix your problem.

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3256754.php
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic29076.html

Hi,
Thanks for the quick and direct reply. I was beginning to suspect that it wasn't much of an upgrade. I guess the increase from the FX's 128mb memory to the A9250's 256mb fooled me.

Cheers
KiwiMutant

 

[KiwiMutant]

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