FX 5500 (agp) not getting detected by nvidia driver

hello, i hope everyone is doing great here is my problem :

i bought for my old pentium 4 ( dell precision 360 worksation tower) an agp graphic card the fx 5500 in order to have the aero effects but the drivers who are meant for that graphic card doesnt work ( it says that nvidia driver couldnt find compatible hardware ),

first this pc had windows xp so i tried on xp with nvidia fx5500 drivers for xp : nothing same error
tried on windows 7 : with every possible driver and also from device manager to install it manualy : nothing
the card is FX 5500 when i boot the computer ther is message that say the graphic card name .

what do you think about it guys ?

Dell Precision 360 WorkStation (main support site)

It appears that model computer was introduced about 20 years ago and came with Windows XP 32-bit.

What is the 7-character "service tag" number on yours?

This is the driver for XP.

This is the driver for XP 64 bit.

There is no driver for this GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) for Windows 7.

If you still have trouble installing, do the following:

Download 7-Zip from here.

After 7z is installed, right click the graphics (GPU) driver and extract the driver file to a folder on your desktop or what ever. Chose the Extract files option. Don't chose the Extract Here option otherwise you'll splatter the install files all over the place. You want the Extract files option so you can chose a folder to extract into.

Now, go into Device Manager and point the GPU entry to that extracted driver folder. Device Manager should automatically see the required inf install file and install the driver straight away.







The extracted contents should look something like this:

F22 Simpilot said:

This is the driver for XP.

This is the driver for XP 64 bit.

There is no driver for this GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) for Windows 7.

If you still have trouble installing, do the following:

Download 7-Zip from here.

After 7z is installed, right click the graphics (GPU) driver and extract the driver file to a folder on your desktop or what ever. Chose the Extract files option. Don't chose the Extract Here option otherwise you'll splatter the install files all over the place. You want the Extract files option so you can chose a folder to extract into.

Now, go into Device Manager and point the GPU entry to that extracted driver folder. Device Manager should automatically see the required inf install file and install the driver straight away.







The extracted contents should look something like this:

thank u sir for the effort provided , and yes i tried to install the driver from the device manager and it doesnt work, and iafter what i have read, its teh vista driver who work for windows 7 for this card

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MisterEd said:

I have a GeForce FX 5900 (AGP) graphics card which uses the same driver as an FX 5500. I have use it with Windows XP and 7 with drivers:

Windows XP: XP driver 175.19
Windows 7: Vista driver 96.85

However, in researching the Dell Precision 360 Workstation I found that it may have come with an Nvidia Quadro graphics card.

Are you sure you don't have a Quadro FX 5500 graphics card? That is not the same as a Geforce FX 5500 and takes a different driver.

Windows XP Driver
Quadro/Tesla Desktop Driver Release 304 | R304 U4 (307.45) | Windows XP | NVIDIA

Windows 7 64-bit Driver
Quadro/Tesla Desktop Driver Release 304 | R304 U4 (307.45) | Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit | NVIDIA


UPDATE

I have to rethink this. The Quadro FX 5500 is PCIe(x16) while the Dell Precission 360 Workstation has an AGP slot. However, the the Quadro FX 500 is AGP. Could you check again to make sure whether you have a GeForce or Quadro graphics card and what model it is.

hello sir , when the computer turn on the first screen shows : FX 5500 256 MB

Did you try one of these drivers? Note Windows 7 uses the Vista drivers.

Windows XP: XP driver 175.19
32-bit
GeForce Release 175 | 175.19 | Windows XP | NVIDIA
64-bit
GeForce Release 175 | 175.19 | Windows XP 64-bit, Windows Server 2003 x64 | NVIDIA

Windows 7: Vista driver 96.85
32-bit
ForceWare Release 95 | 96.85 | Windows Vista 32-bit | NVIDIA
64-bit
ForceWare Release 95 | 96.85 | Windows Vista 64-bit | NVIDIA

Yes yes i did , maybe i think that i have to try updating the bios but the problem is that i cant find the last bios version which is A04 ( i have A03) even in the officiel website because i guess they dropped the support for this computer ... Dell precision 360 workstation pentium 4 tower

I would like to confirm that your FX 5500 plugs into AGP and not PCI?

I see that the FX 5500 came in several revisions. Some plugged into PCI while others plugged into AGP. They had anywhere from 64MB to 256MB video memory.

I have a FX5900 AGP. It only has 128MB video memory. One time I I tried a newer NVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP (256MB) video card. I put the FX5900 back in because it was much faster.

Hi

very interesting artical here plus a couple of idea's and links
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could you also run msinfo32 and post the results

You might want to visit the Dell support forums if you haven't already. I can't find a BIOS for that thing and other resources on the Internet are sketchy.