Needing Geforce 210 Driver

[Texas7412]

Okay, So this has been a long road of trial and error with this Geforce 210 1gb card, I tried the latest driver from NVIDIA and it leaves me at a black screen.. I have Intel HD graphics and Geforce 210, I've tried 5 or 6 different drivers for this card and none are letting it work.. It sits at a black screen until the driver crashes and goes to Basic display driver I'm on windows 10 x64 

Thanks..

(I know this is an old card but it's the best i can afford LOL)

[Wh0_Am_1]

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[Bubbles_TPB]

Have you tried older versions of the Nvidia drivers? Would you be doing 3D sort of stuff? If not, Just try to use the default drivers from windows.

[Texas7412]

3 minutes ago, LukeTheCoder05 said:

Have you tried older versions of the Nvidia drivers? Would you be doing 3D sort of stuff? If not, Just try to use the default drivers from windows.

i use it for gaming and also video editing, It was working fine on driver 306.97(i believe it was that one) And my intel HD is wayyyy too slow for gaming or anything like that.. the default driver from windows doesn't work on the card and it just goes back to the Basic display driver thing in windows and also breaking the Intel HD's driver

[Bubbles_TPB]

Well... If that driver works, May as well stick to it. A good upgrade is a GT 710 @ $70US or a Gt 1030 for $100US

[Texas7412]

2 minutes ago, LukeTheCoder05 said:

Well... If that driver works, May as well stick to it. A good upgrade is a GT 710 @ $70US or a Gt 1030 for $100US

The issue is, The driver started to crash, After attempting to reinstall it then it says there's no compatible hardware for that driver... Device manager shows the card but there's no driver installed for it.. So i don't know really what to do.. The card works in another computer without issues but not on this computer anymore.. 

[Bubbles_TPB]

It may be windows. Get to old of hardware and it will start acting up. Its kinda like how you cant play older PC games on modern windows.

I recommend the mentioned GPUs as a upgrade.

[Texas7412]

22 minutes ago, LukeTheCoder05 said:

It may be windows. Get to old of hardware and it will start acting up. Its kinda like how you cant play older PC games on modern windows.

I recommend the mentioned GPUs as a upgrade.

Hopefully that isn't the case, I'm stuck with what I got.. Don't know why it randomly decided to break, was in the middle of a game and it told me there was an issue with the driver and after a reboot the driver completely failed and Nvidia installer won't detect my card anymore.. if there's anything that could help, that would be much appreciated. 

[mr cheese]

21 minutes ago, Texas7412 said:

Hopefully that isn't the case, I'm stuck with what I got.. Don't know why it randomly decided to break, was in the middle of a game and it told me there was an issue with the driver and after a reboot the driver completely failed and Nvidia installer won't detect my card anymore.. if there's anything that could help, that would be much appreciated. 

My personal reccomendation would be to pool together as much money as you can and go to craigslist. Literally any $40 card on there would be better, and you could nab a solid 4 or 5 gen card (there's a 470 in my area for $40).

 

But to your issue:

For a while I had to use a GeForce 8400GS which sucked but worked.

What I honestly suggest in my experience with the 8400GS is to uninstall the drivers entirely, reboot, and let Windows install the driver through Windows Update. You know, this guy:

That's what worked for me and I never had to wrangle with NVIDIA's drivers. If you keep checking for updates after that reboot it will eventually pop up after you've uninstalled them.

 

If that doesn't work try reseating the GPU or switching the PCIe slot with another one. It may be a hardware issue but lets pray it isn't.

 

Also, what CPU are you running?

[Texas7412]

1 hour ago, DaJakerBoss said:

My personal reccomendation would be to pool together as much money as you can and go to craigslist. Literally any $40 card on there would be better, and you could nab a solid 4 or 5 gen card (there's a 470 in my area for $40).

 

But to your issue:

For a while I had to use a GeForce 8400GS which sucked but worked.

What I honestly suggest in my experience with the 8400GS is to uninstall the drivers entirely, reboot, and let Windows install the driver through Windows Update. You know, this guy:

That's what worked for me and I never had to wrangle with NVIDIA's drivers. If you keep checking for updates after that reboot it will eventually pop up after you've uninstalled them.

 

If that doesn't work try reseating the GPU or switching the PCIe slot with another one. It may be a hardware issue but lets pray it isn't.

 

Also, what CPU are you running?

Old and horrible i7 620, The windows updates installs a broken driver for my card, it installs the latest which never worked in the first place.. So thats out of the option LOL.. i managed a 266.77 driver but it stays at a black screen until the computer shuts off.. So that doesn't work either.. The card DOES work on a different computer but just not this one anymore

[mr cheese]

19 minutes ago, Texas7412 said:

Old and horrible i7 620, The windows updates installs a broken driver for my card, it installs the latest which never worked in the first place.. So thats out of the option LOL.. i managed a 266.77 driver but it stays at a black screen until the computer shuts off.. So that doesn't work either.. The card DOES work on a different computer but just not this one anymore

could be hardware, what driver is said other PC running