Win XP Home poor display

[navyfalcon]

To check the display, I have win xp home (with poor display) and installed win xp pro (good display)
This was to check the hardware. To check the display drivers in system 32 (wiavideo.dll) and system (vga device driver)
I copied the drivers from win xp pro (good display) and replaced the drivers in win xp home (bad display) with them. No change.
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I don't know what to check or how to do it. I proved that the hardware is good by checking on both win xp home and win xp pro.
Win xp home seems to have a common display problem because I searched it in Google (mv4_disp) but I am unable to find a fix.
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Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You
falcon

[BC_Programmer]

Install the Drivers for the Graphics Adapter. It sounds like an Nvidia Adapter.

[navyfalcon]

Is the "vga device driver" in the "system folder" the Nvidia Adapter driver ??
I am not that knowledgeable about drivers in the "system" folder or the "system 32" folder.
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thank You
falcon 

[Geek-9pm]

There should not be any difference in the way two versions of XP handles the display. Some more information is needed.
What do you call a 'poor display'? Fuzzy? Poor color?
What make of computer do you have?
Do you have original install CD of both XP home and XP pro?
Are both SP-3? Have you done updates on both?
Have you compared Safe Mode display for both versions?
It ought to bee the same.

[BC_Programmer]

Is the "vga device driver" in the "system folder" the Nvidia Adapter driver ??

No. I don't even know what you are referring to. you don't Install drivers by randomly copying files to system folders.

What is your graphics adapter? Is this a laptop?

[BC_Programmer]

What do you call a 'poor display'? Fuzzy? Poor color?

I'm almost positive that the effect they are seeing is that the XP Home machine does not have proper drivers installed.

Though it could be as simple as changing the resolution, now that I think of it.

[navyfalcon]

Item 1. The OS (both) are on a Dell Dimension 2350.
Item 2. The OS for both was installed with the original MS disk
Item 3. The Video controller is Nvidia GeForce 4000
Item 4. Both OS have the drivers wiavideo.dll (sys32) and vga device driver (sys folder)
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I agree with you. I think it is a driver, but which one ??
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thank you for your time and help
any addition help will be appreciated
falcon

[BC_Programmer]

Item 3. The Video controller is Nvidia GeForce 4000

Than the Driver software is available here

Item 4. Both OS have the drivers wiavideo.dll (sys32) and vga device driver (sys folder)

wiavideo is not a video Driver. it is used for acquiring video data from a digital camcorder (Windows Image Acquisition for Video).
vga.drv is the default driver that Windows will use if no other driver is installed.

[navyfalcon]

I downloaded drivers from this site
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_182.65
I hope it is the correct site and drivers
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falcon

[navyfalcon]

I copied and pasted the driver into the system folder (not system32)
No joy. No change in the display. Is there a procedure to set up the driver for the display or did I get the wrong driver ??
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Thank you again for the help
falcon

[BC_Programmer]

The driver you installed is not the correct driver. The driver you downloaded is for Quadro Cards, which are high-end Workstation Display Cards.

You want the one that I linked (NVidia Forceware).

You don't copy files into system32. You run the downloaded program. it is an Installer.

[patio]

The drivers should actually come from Dell.
Dell's are finicky like that.

[BC_Programmer]

The drivers should actually come from Dell.
Dell's are finicky like that.

The Nvidia is added-on after purchase and was not stock with the machine. The Dell support page doesn't list any NVidia drivers for that model.

That said, it actually brings up a good question, which is whether the Geforce 4000 is in both machines, and if not, which machine it is in.

Though I'm also curious how they managed to get from the link I provided for Forceware 90 to a download for NVidia Quadro drivers. That must have been some adventure.

[patio]

 

[navyfalcon]

Easy trip: To do the automatic search requires java and I have difficulty downloading a
java version for win xp home. So I went to Nvidia site and tried for a match. This is an old
video card and the system is old. I think my best bet is to somehow get the drivers from
win xp pro and put them in win xp home.
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How can I perform this operation so the drivers will install
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again, thank you for your patience and help
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falcon