I need help finding a driver for a video card?

i have a sparkle fx 5200 graphics card a friend gave me but i cant find the drivers for it and i have a windows 7 computer, i heard that people got it to work on windows 7 i went on their website to find the driver (did not have driver cd) and downloaded the vista version hoping it to work but it did not anyone know which version to download or where?|||By the looks of things nVidia havent released drivers for that card which are designed for Windows 7.



I would suggest getting the Vista drivers for your card but make sure if you have 64 bit windows to get 64 bit drivers and the same goes for 32 bit windows.|||The driver package from nVidia most likely is not compatible with Windows 7. You can manually install the driver via Device Manager, which is built into Windows. The trick is to extract the driver files from the installer and then force Windows to use them, even it they are detected to be incompatible.



I have extracted the files for you and they can be downloaded from the following URL:



http://sites.google.com/site/pwdionline/



Your driver packages are are somewhat down the list. I had to split them into 5mb archives because of space restrictions.



1. Download the driver packages

2. Right click the first package and extract the archive contents (it will automatically pull from the rest of the archives)

3. Click START

4. Right click 'Computer' and select 'Properties'

5. On the top left, click 'Device Manager'

6. Expand the 'Display Adapters' and right click your graphics card (it might have a generic name)

7. Choose 'Update Driver Software'

8. Choose 'Browse My Computer for Driver Software'

9. Click the 'Browse' button

10. Navigate to where you extracted the driver package

11. Double click the driver INF file (might be called nv_disp)

12. Follow the prompts to install and restart your computer



Let us know if this works. If you need a 64-bit copy, email me at compelx@gmail.com



Thanks!|||Nvidia's website will have drivers that will work with 7. Nvidia has "unified driver architecture" so they have maximum compatibility with most mother boards and operating systems. If no exact match can be found try driver 174.14. That is the one I use.|||The "Wonders" of Windows 7- NOT Supporting Hardware as usual..As serious as can be, the ones who "got it to work" did you ask them? Frankly, you wouldnt be here if that was the case. Chances are- Windows 7 does NOT support you card or 95% of others. Generally when people have certain issues with 7 support the article below helps.Also- if the Vista Driver didn't work, (Vista and 7 are SAME format) [Kinda like Windows 2000 and NT.] I would look into Why it didn't?

Best of Luck|||If you can’t find the right drivers manually I would recommend just getting a software program that can do it for you. There is a program I use which will find drivers for just about all hardware devices. The best part is it takes a snapshot of your system specifications and matches the right driver to go with it. Perform a free driver scan at:

http://www.best-driver-updater.com/

Also, you can get the driver from their official sites:

http://www.nvidia.com/