Re: NVIDIA device driver for windows server 2003
- From: "Admiral Q" <Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(No-Spam-Man)@(Can-the-Spam)hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:24:33 -0400
"curiousme" <curiousme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, that's what I thought, but then nvidia thinks otherwise!
[While display drivers for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit edition
are
not available from NVIDIA directly, you may acquire drivers from Microsoft
through Windows Update:
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
All drivers for Windows Server 2003 are currently maintained by Microsoft.
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=5
]
I have found a workaround temporarily - turn off PAE, DEP in MS Boot.ini
and
then it works - obviously there is a bug somewhere.
No wonder Apple MACs and open source Linux OSs are becoming popular - you
get one tested driver from one source, and not have to go through Dell,
MS,
NVIDIA and get bounced around for a paid license to a enterprise Operating
System (at least with Linux, you know you are on your own since you
haven't
paid anything for it).
Sorry for the ranting - it becomes frustrating after a while (to get a
$6000
piece of hardware /software that doesn't work properly).
I will open a support ticket with Microsoft directly and hopefully get a
clearer resolution.
"Dave Patrick" wrote:
Microsoft doesn't do driver development. The drivers on the OS
installation
media come from the hardware manufacturer's. You may have to buy
different
hardware.
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/item.aspx?idItem=fed4bd62-188e-5236-dfb1-f1f9dc2f9e9a
http://www.windowsservercatalog.com/results.aspx?&bCatID=1284&cpID=0&ocID=12&OR=1
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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"curiousme" wrote:
|I have been trying to get the NVIDIA NVS 285 working on my new dell
precision
| 690 with Windows Server 2003 and it just doesn't seem to work with
anything
| other than the plain MS VGA driver!
| After loading Windows XP driver or other beta driver from nvidia.com,
it
| shows up with a blank screen and a band at the top during logon. The
machine
| itself works via Terminal Services.
| I have also tried disabling/enabling h/w acceleration, directx 9.0c
etc.
| Need Windows Server 2003 for my work since I will be using Oracle RDBMS
etc.
| and doing some extensive performance testing and cannot use Windows XP.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| Nvidia says to contact MS for drivers and MS web site doesn't seem to
offer
| any drivers!
|
What's the bug? You are obviously using hardward that neither the OS
(Microsoft) nor the hardware manufacturer (NVidia) designed support for, so
the bug is you - don't waste your time and/or money with support calls to MS
or NVidia. That would be about like me loading Win2k3 IA64 on an X86
architechure machine and demanding microsoft (OS) and hardware manufacturer
to make it work. Just because I'd like it to work, doesn't mean it will and
doesn't mean the hardware/software companies will listen either.
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