NVIDIA FX Go 5200 drivers

[Leythos]

Anyone been able to get the NVIDIA FX Go 5200 working on a Toshiba
laptop?

I've been to several sites, tried several hacks, etc... The laptop is
still a powerhouse, but there is just nothing for Vista Drivers.=

[Colin Barnhorst]

What laptop? What Toshiba model?

According to:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/technology_vista_home.html
you are out of luck, but if you have not done so, you can test your Go 5200
for Vista compatibility using the "Analyze Your PC" link on the page to make
sure.

Since nothing earlier than a Go 6100/6150 is listed under Notebooks, it
appears that you will not get Aero using a Go 5200 adaptor.

Whether or not Toshiba has any Vista drivers is something you have to
investigate on Toshiba's website. There will not be another source.

[Dominic Payer]

See http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/.
Download both the driver you choose and the modified inf file for it and
replace the inf in the extracted driver file. The basic driver is a desktop
driver and you will need the modified inf file for it to be able to install
on a laptop.

[Leythos]

P25-S526, and I've checked Toshiba's site as well as LVD2G and tried
about 20 different drivers.

[Leythos]

Yep, done at least 20 drivers and inf from that site, the best I can get
is standard vga resolutions, nothing worked.

Guess it's time for a new laptop.

[Colin Barnhorst]

The Go 5200 is not supported. You will get basic video but nothing before a
Go 6100/6150 has Vista support. Sorry. The Windows Device Driver Model in
Vista is very different from XP and that is why you are having the problem.
The Go 5200 does not have any WDDM compliant drivers. It is simply too old.

[Leythos]

I'm well aware that the card in the laptop is not supported, but that
wasn't the point of the post.

Many people have found ways to get 5200's to work, and it's through
trial and error that they do it.

The laptop is about 2 years old, hardly TOO OLD, but it's another case
of how MS chooses to screw people with good systems in their effort to
get people to buy the next OS so that the next OS after that will have
enough hardware to run well - much like Windows ME did before XP.

I'll keep looking.

[Colin Barnhorst]

Toshiba's choice of providing the Go 5200 at a time when the WDDM
requirements for Aero were already widely known and available to all OEMs
was no doubt their business decision, not Microsoft's. Since the lappy did
not come with Vista preinstalled, the choice to install Vista was yours.
Nevertheless, good luck tracking down the workarounds. I hope you find them
quickly.

[Leythos]

I've been around MS OS's since Bill came out of the Garage, so I think I
understand their motivations well enough and I'm not a MS Basher of any
type.

MS came out with ME to push better hardware for XP, they've done the
same thing with Vista, more hardware to get the same performance as XP
provided, it's always been that way.

MS could have provided a generic driver that also provided DirectX
support for 1024x768, but they didn't, that's my b1tch with them.

[Colin Barnhorst]

Not going there. Just trying to answer your questions. We try to help
chippy people too. No prob.

[Paul Smith]

Actually you do see that when an app that could have a ugly impact on the
display is running. Windows shuts down Aero until the app exits. You then
get an XP-style rendering of the desktop and its apps.

Rendering the desktop in the gpu and releiveing the cpu of that sort of task
does make a difference even when Aero is not in play.