Also the computer only recognizes the card as a "Video Controller (VGA compatible)" device. and it is listed under "other devices". I don't know if that is helpful or not.

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The reason the computer sees the card as a "Video Controller (VGA compatible)" device is because there are no specific drivers installed yet. Go to My Computer and highlight the C: drive. Choose Tools> Folder options> View. Uncheck the box “Hide extensions for known file types”. Click on Apply to All Folders. Reboot and post the entire name including extension of the driver file you downloaded.

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C:\NVIDIA\Win2k\175.19\English\setup.exe This is what I got.

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OK, you have an exe file which should be self installed. All you should need to do is start the process. Double click on the file and follow the prompts. BTW, I recommend leaving the setting I had you change. If you get the same message again then the driver file may be the wrong one.

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I have tried to install it many times and get the same message. I will try another one and see what happens.

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I have downloaded and tried to install every driver from that site and all say the same thing: " The NVIDIA setup could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware"

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http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_... http://www.apollovcard.com/support_... Try rolling back the driver to VGA and then installing the nvidia driver package.

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what do you mean by "rolling back"?

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Right click a blank space on your desktop. Choose Properties> settings> advanced> adapter> properties> driver> roll back.

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I followed the instructions but when I went to the adapter tab and hit properties the device was labeled as VgaSave and there is nothing accessible under the driver tab everything is grayed out and just says: Service name: VgaSave Display name: VgaSave

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Evidently your efforts to install the drivers from the downloaded file are not taking, for whatever reason. Try booting into Safe Made and looking in Device Manager to see if there might be multiple instances of the card. If so, remove all of them and reboot. Windows should attempt to install the card. Hit escape each time and then after Windows settles down try running the installation again. Look in Add/remove programs and see if there are any listings for the card. Also look there to see what versions of Windows Installer are present. Should have one that is at least 3.0 or higher. If by chance Windows does NOT pickup on the new hardware then you may need to re-seat the card or it may be defective. I just had a thought. Does your board have on board graphics? You are connecting the monitor to the new card? One last thing, there should be a setting in the BIOS to choose which graphics to boot first, if you have on board. Choose PCI. AGP is an extension of the PCI bus.

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Yes my board has on board graphics and I can't get any signal through the graphics card. How do you adjust your BIOS settings?

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OK, you didn't tell us that before. The onboard and the AGP slot are BOTH run off the same bus. If you had a recent failure of your on board it may have affected the bus somehow and that is why you can't install the card. Just a guess. As far as the BIOS goes I mentioned the selection for which to boot first. In theory this option shouldn't make any difference because even if on board was selected it would still go to the add in card if available. One item you could change would be the RAM that is shared by the on board chip. That shouldn't affect installing the card though. What is the history with the on board video? Were you using it before? You didn't respond to my question about where you are connecting your monitor. Also suggested checking to verify the AGP card is FULLY inserted. There is a locking tang on the inboard end of the card that must be locked. Should lock automatically if the card is fully seated. I assume the pulled AGP card worked in the old system?

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I have been using the on board video card that also had an intel graphics accelerator card. I removed the accelerator card and installed the A5200. The card worked fine in the other computer also. I took the A5200 card out of the AGP slot and put it back in making sure it is fully in place and secure. Would uninstalling the intel graphics card before I installed the A5200 mess things up?

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I don't know anything about the card you mentioned. If a card where did it reside when installed? Special slot? What exact model of Sony Vaio you you have? Why do you want to switch to the AGP card? There were some motherboards that had AGP and PCIe graphics slots. If yours is one of them the AGP slot only accepted a limited number of cards by model. Strictly a stopgap. I am confused now because the only Intel accelerator I found in PCIe based.

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The card that was removed was the PCVA-IMB5A I think I was wrong about it being a intel card. I think it is a sony card. It was in a white slot just below the the AGP slot. My main reason for switching card was for my son's video games. Also my Vaio is the VGC-RB42G.

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