Expert: Jonas - 4/21/2001

Question
I have a 350 mgrtz micron millennia with 128 mb ram Pentium II and a Diamond Viper V550 16 mb graphics card.My friend bought a new computer with a 32 mb invidia tnt2 m64 4x agp factory installation.He took it out and installed a 64 mb card.He gave me the nvidia card but said that he didn't get a disk with it .Now for my question...Can I use this nvidia tnt without a installation disk?Where can I get a disk etc?I'm sure you get the picture.Also,is it worth the trouble?I'm trying to get my flight sims to work better.Thanks...Alex

Answer
  You do need to install the drivers to use the TNT2. However you do not need the install disk. First try removing your old card and installing the NVIDIA card. Boot your computer and see if windows detects it. If it does detect your card and install drivers this should be all you need to do. However, if windows does not detect the card, you will have to download the latest drivers for the specific model from the manufacturers web site.
  Should you bother? Yes, especially if you play games. The TNT2 is a much better card than your Diamond. As well, if you are a gamer, I would recommend installing the manufacturers latest drivers even if Windows installs its drivers for the card.

  Hope that helps.