GeForce2 MX400 video drivers for Windows 7

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I've just finished installing Windows 7 on a system with an ancient video card – GeForce2 MX400. It wasn't very easy, so I decided to write down my experience to the blog.

Of course, NVidia didn't release Windows 7 drivers for this card and they're not going to:

No Windows 7 drivers for GeForce2 MX on the NVidia site

But anyway I decided to test my luck and downloaded drivers for GeForce2 MX (version 93.71) for Windows XP. They installed succesfuly under WinXP compatibility mode

Backward compatibility with Windows XP menu item in Windows 7

and even worked for some time until I decided to test video playback on the fresh system. The system crashed after that and showed a blue screen of the death with complaints on nv_mini.sys

Becasue of the first two letters of the driver name ("nv") I understood that problems were in the video subsystem.

I had searched the Net and found the following advice: if one wants to run GeForce2 MX with Windows 7  then they should try version 71.89 of drivers, which you can download from NVidia site: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_71.89.html

Everything works fine after installing the last-mentioned drivers (even NFS Undeground).


12 March 2017

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  • thank you

    Posted by mohamed, 16/01/2013 3:13pm (7 years ago)

  • super

    Posted by marius, 28/11/2012 10:10pm (7 years ago)

  • Thank you very much for posting your experience. I followed your guide using version 71.89, and it works! No more system crashes when checking Windows 7 Performance.

    Posted by Tony, 09/11/2012 4:40am (7 years ago)

  • version 81.98 work too.

    Posted by javanlion, 08/11/2012 11:45am (7 years ago)

  • Thank you! It seems to work perfectly! The thing that was most bothering me was the 60Hz refresh rate... but now it's solved. :)

    Posted by Füvi, 15/10/2012 6:13pm (7 years ago)

  • thanks a lot. it's working.

    Posted by jony, 31/07/2012 9:10am (8 years ago)

  • thanks for driver

    Posted by alaa, 24/01/2012 1:37am (8 years ago)


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