Wrong Card Detected ??

[visvidia]

Hi,
I bought a Geforce card recently ... as per vendor, it is 7300 512 mb ram, my machine is AMD 64 3000+ and OS is WinXP ( 64bit ). On booting the machine, the card bios displays : GeForce 7300 512 mb ram . And in WinXP 64, the card is detected as geforce 5500FX (with 128 mb ram)!!! ( i checked with GPUZ/ dxdiag ).........
Do i need to install / update any motherboard drivers ? or does the Card needs to be replaced ?

[jcniest5]

Have you installed the latest driver yet? If not, try that and see if it helps.

[visvidia]

yes, i have downloaded the drivers from nvidia site, by choosing following options GeForce->7 Series->winXP 64 bit.... also cancelled new Hardware found dialogs ...also removed previously installed nvidia drivers by add / remove and driver manager ......

[CaptNKILL]

Wow, thats really strange. I've never heard of that happening before.

If you can't get it working properly, I'd recommend returning it.

If you're looking for a gaming card there are far better cards out there for the price of a 512mb 7300 if you're willing to buy online.

[nekrosoft13]

go to device manager, display adaptes, properties of your card, details, hardware ids, and look up PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_?????

then open the setup ini file from the driver. look up what your hardware ID corresponds in the driver.