Vista - Help! nVidia 7950GX2 graphics card driver problem

Ok, I went into device manager and noticed my drivers for the above gfx card
were 7.10, dated 2006 sometime.

Now I've always been told it's very important to have the latest gfx card
drivers, so I went to nVidia's site to check for newer ones, and they had
Vista drivers 7.15 dated Feb 07.

After installing them everything *seems* ok, except in Device Manager now I
have 2 entries for "7950GX2" under Display, and one of them has a little
yellow triangle with the exclamation point. Looking at the properties tells
me "Code 31", "Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device".

Uninstalling it in Device Manager and then using Scan For Hardware Changes
seems to send Windows through the usual "installing drivers" thing, but at
the end the problem persists.

Help!

"Moody Marco" <marco@zoom.co.uk> wrote in message
news:54FF4EF7-BCA9-4D11-B991-A00E852465D0@microsoft.com...
> Ok, I went into device manager and noticed my drivers for the above gfx
> card were 7.10, dated 2006 sometime.
>
> Now I've always been told it's very important to have the latest gfx card
> drivers, so I went to nVidia's site to check for newer ones, and they had
> Vista drivers 7.15 dated Feb 07.
>
> After installing them everything *seems* ok, except in Device Manager now
> I have 2 entries for "7950GX2" under Display, and one of them has a little
> yellow triangle with the exclamation point. Looking at the properties
> tells me "Code 31", "Windows cannot load the drivers required for this
> device".
>
> Uninstalling it in Device Manager and then using Scan For Hardware Changes
> seems to send Windows through the usual "installing drivers" thing, but at
> the end the problem persists.
>

Think I may have found the answer:

"GeForce 7950 GX2 multi-GPU mode.
In current drivers, only one of the GPUs is active and functioning on this
card. NVIDIA is actively working on this feature and plan to release Beta
drivers between now and the final release in the end of March"

"Moody Marco" <marco@zoom.co.uk> wrote in message
news:FE83A476-EC04-4CF5-A937-14EC7EBF75A3@microsoft.com...
>
> "Moody Marco" <marco@zoom.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:54FF4EF7-BCA9-4D11-B991-A00E852465D0@microsoft.com...
>> Ok, I went into device manager and noticed my drivers for the above gfx
>> card were 7.10, dated 2006 sometime.
>>
>> Now I've always been told it's very important to have the latest gfx card
>> drivers, so I went to nVidia's site to check for newer ones, and they had
>> Vista drivers 7.15 dated Feb 07.
>>
>> After installing them everything *seems* ok, except in Device Manager now
>> I have 2 entries for "7950GX2" under Display, and one of them has a
>> little yellow triangle with the exclamation point. Looking at the
>> properties tells me "Code 31", "Windows cannot load the drivers required
>> for this device".
>>
>> Uninstalling it in Device Manager and then using Scan For Hardware
>> Changes seems to send Windows through the usual "installing drivers"
>> thing, but at the end the problem persists.
>>
>
> Think I may have found the answer:
>
> "GeForce 7950 GX2 multi-GPU mode.
> In current drivers, only one of the GPUs is active and functioning on this
> card. NVIDIA is actively working on this feature and plan to release Beta
> drivers between now and the final release in the end of March"

Here's something bizarre - with the Microsoft drivers for the 7950GX2 (as
installed with Vista installation), which only shows 1 entry under Display
in Device Manager, my Windows Experience Index for graphics was 5.9 and
Gaming Graphics was 5.7.

Since installing the nVidia Forceware drivers (which give the 2 entries in
Device Manager, 1 with a conflict, since they're apparently disabling 1 of
the GPU's till nVidia fix it), my Gaming Graphics score has went *up* to
5.8! (Graphics score is still 5.9)