Download Driver Nvidia Geforce 8400 Gs Windows Xp 32 Bit
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There is no way for 8400 GS or ANY other DirectX 10 class card for that matter, to work as 3D accelerator under Windows 98.
In best case, you may be able to get "Standard VGA" driver working - and that's it.
"Tweaked" driver only adds HardwareIDs to .inf file, and it may even brick your Win98 install after using it.
Ok. I was able to install nvidia the hard way.
I ahve to be honest and say that installing it the hard way is not really hard. What is hard is to understand the different instructions found all over the web. So I made a compilation of what I understood and did the following:
1 installed gcc, make and kernel-dev
2 entered yast/bootloader and added to the last line of my default boot option nomodeset
3 rebooted
4 started in failsafe mode
5 logged as root
6 typed init 3
7 went to the director isaved the driver
8 type sh
Well, I thought everything was OK now but it seems that something is wrong.
After having the drivers installed and everything running it happenned about three or four times that after boot kde loaded aparently correctly but when I tried to move the mouse cursor I found out that my whole system was frozen, mouse, keyboard, and I had to use reset button.
Once my system froze while playing a song in amarok.
And another time firefox crashed while alternating between open windows.
Hello
I have installed opensuse 11.4 with kde 4, well i install too nvidia driver 290 with yast2 but the machine freeze in a random moment
i have zotac geforce 8400 gs, i think nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop, x11-video-nvidiaG02 nvidia-computeG02 no is the correct driver
I understand that system is quite old but in windows it works good enough. Is it possible to make it work in Linux?
I am a beginner in Linux. If something is necessary I will provide but with examples of commands.
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (69.6 KB)
You didn't mentioned what is your native screen resolution but when you use a digital screen it's usually the first suspect on your list. But my new flat screen also offered a higher virtual resolution thus it can be also a driver problem. The Geforce 8400 GS should go much higher. I think it depends on how much video ram it has. You can use Powerstrip to control that. Maybe you can use Powerstrip to unlock higher resolution.
Some LCD TVs publish sub-standard resolution over VGA and HDMIYou can make custom resolution with nvidia driver, or use one offered by windows.e,g my philips HD TV shows 1280x600 as default, when it works just fine with 1360x768 but on the box it has 1366x768 in which case it gets resized with desktop sides out of screen... It is just trial and error...
you might have to use a video card of similar vintage (to 98)(an S3 trio32 based card with 2M or more video ram might be a
good starting point)OTOH if the "Geforce 8400 GS" is vesa compatible it should work using
the vesa drivers.
You wont get much sympathy here for speccing anything that single
sourced either for the product or its support. Once you've been
'burned' on technical support, you never trust that company again.
Anyway, its not that technically challenging to provide a wrapper to
allow hardware drivers written for an older OS version to be supported
on a modern OS. Linux even uses NDIS wrapper to support WiFi cards
without a native driver using their windows driver. Even Microsoft used
to get this right. Win98SE even has a driver for the first ever mass
produced inkjet printer, the HP Thinkjet from back in 1984 *INCLUDED* on
the OS CDROM. That's 15 years later!
I have a NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS with latest drivers installed. These 2 monitors work (HDMI, DVI hookups) using that GPU. But the moment I connect a monitor to the onboard VGA or DisplayPort everything goes black across all monitors. I can see the mouse but it tends to flicker.
I have ran into this issue at work with the Dell 3020's using Dell u2415 monitors when upgrading to Windows 10. I used IOBit Driver Booster to update most of my drivers (including Bios) and problem was fixed. Only difference is that the machine I upgraded has a Nvidia GTX 680, not the 8400 GS. Give that a try and good luck!
Snufykat - I'm assuming you are asking whether I'm running the driver that came from dells support area or nvidias one. I have tried both...Please let me know if that is not what you meant...? I may retrace this step now that I know everything else is up-to-date.
Carl - Intel HD Graphics 4400 is running driver version 10.18.15.4256 that was released 7/17/2015. Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS is running driver 9.18.13.4174 that was released 6/29/2015. Thanks to IOBit, I'm pretty sure I'm running latest drivers.
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