Latest Nvidia Drivers put me at 800X600 x 4-bit

[MrPopov]

I recently reinstalled XP Home and after getting my wireless card up, I hit up nvidia.com to download the latest drivers for my video card. Once I ran and installed the drivers I reboot the machine and am stuck in 800x600 at 4-bit.

Uninstalling the drivers got me back to XP default VGA graphics, but whenever I updated to the latest version (175.16 released May 16, 2008) Windows felt like I couldn't go any higher than 800x600 4-bit! For now I have resorted to installing the drivers that came with the CD when I bought the card and that has been working fine so far.

Anyone have a clue what is going on or have had similar problems?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Whats the video card?

 

[MrPopov]

8800 GT

specifically this one

 

[GoodGame]

No clue as I thought the drivers were backword compatible. Maybe double-check that they didn't end that model's support at some time, and get the last supported driver?

 

[MrPopov]

I am going to try the 175.70 "beta" release.

FYI if anyone is looking for previous Nvidia drivers, this site is excellent http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=10

 

[MrPopov]

got it working just fine with the above drivers.