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Nvidia - different behaviour under 64 bit windows

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I bought a new box from Overclockers recently. I have set it up as a dual boot machine - so it can run both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate. I agreed to buy an additional video card having been told at the time of purchase that, by doing so, the machine would support dual monitors.

This works fine under 64 bit Windows where it recognises one of the monitors correctly as an Acer and the video card as an NVidia GeForce GT430 (with Chip type "GeForce GT 430" and total available graphics memory 2747Mb)and I can move my mouse between the expanded display across both monitors.

However it does not work under 32 bit Windows where it only recognises one monitor and shows it as generic non-PNP (not Acer) and shows card as "standard VGA graphics adapter" (with Chip Type "NVIDIA" and total available graphics memory as 14Mb)

I have installed drivers from CD supplied by Overclockers for the motherboard under both Windows versions.

Any suggestions?
 
DON'T use the driver that comes with the CD would be a good start (as it is usually outdated anyway).

Go on nvidia's site and download the latest driver. Think you gonna need to download two of the...one for the 32-bit and the other for the 64-bit Windows 7.
 
Any reason why you need to dual boot?

Can't remember last time I had compatibility issues with anything.....

You can download XP mode for Windows ultimate which installs a Virtual Machine XP version that you can run from Windows 7 desktop, that usually sorted any problems I did have.
 
Thank you both. I ran the update utility offered on the Nvidia site and that did the trick. I should have tried that step, sorry and thanks again!

I implemented the dual boot setup because of some uncertainty as to what version I ultimately want to use and how well each environment supports the various applications and tools I use for software development. At the moment I'm thinking that I may stick with 32 bit Windows 7 Ultimate initially.

I will probably have to install a Virtual PC environment for Windows XP in addition to the dual boot Windows 7 as, while some old applications I have developed will still install under Windows 7, the required development environment is not fully supported.
 
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