How to adopt Win7 drivers to Vista ?

[D.Draker]

11 hours ago, mardunaki said:

thanks for help but unfortunately, doesn't work (this drivers won't install at all no matter what)

Give me the device ID for your card from the device manager.

[mardunaki]

34 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

Give me the device ID for your card from the device manager.

this one ?

also everytime when i start the system, hdd check appear (the one with three steps or so) if i skip it classic theme become the only option
and many basic features work a lot worse, without drivers vista almost falling apart...

Edited August 21, 2024 by mardunaki

[D.Draker]

11 hours ago, mardunaki said:

this one ?

The "VGA" adapteur. The first line, copy paste it here.

[mardunaki]

USB
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A12F&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_31

VGA
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1401&SUBSYS_36C11458&REV_A1

LAN
PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_15

Edited August 21, 2024 by mardunaki

[D.Draker]

13 hours ago, mardunaki said:

VGA
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1401&SUBSYS_36C11458&REV_A1

https://www.mediafire.com/download/dwic3yw91t2dt2j/347.90-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql.exe

Or 

64

https://catalog.s.download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/driver/drvs/2015/09/20777647_656fb0763425a6c8fb4ffcc1d9581604a91cf912.cab

 

32

https://catalog.s.download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/driver/drvs/2015/09/20777649_230f744f753e4842d59f8f28eab607daa93ba6e7.cab

[mardunaki]

11 hours ago, D.Draker said:

https://www.mediafire.com/download/dwic3yw91t2dt2j/347.90-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql.exe

Or 

64

https://catalog.s.download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/driver/drvs/2015/09/20777647_656fb0763425a6c8fb4ffcc1d9581604a91cf912.cab

 

32

https://catalog.s.download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/driver/drvs/2015/09/20777649_230f744f753e4842d59f8f28eab607daa93ba6e7.cab

same error: "NVIDIA Installer cannot continue
The graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware"

[ED_Sln]

USB try this driver, I have it working on my Z77 chipset on Vista. https://mega.nz/file/v7gFiALD#3WjTHP0Mx7idmuJ38SfUjkRC7epYR-3B3KTAUjQmMDo
Video driver is not clear why it is not installed, I have GTX950 (PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1402) and driver 365.19 was installed by the installer without errors.

What if you unzip the driver and install the driver through device manager? Also, what is the letter of the system disk, WinNTsetup sometimes assigns a different letter than C, and because of this some programs have errors.

 

[D.Draker]

12 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

Video driver is not clear why it is not installed, I have GTX950 (PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1402) and driver 365.19 was installed by the installer without errors.

Looks like he has an OEM-locked branded device. Like in the recent case with Dell GTX1080.

https://msfn.org/board/topic/186395-3d-video-card-not-working-windows-7-sp1-x64/

[ED_Sln]

58 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

Like in the recent case with Dell GTX1080.

Yes, need more information about the video card, who is its manufacturer. Maybe the video card was bought in China and a laptop GPU was installed there instead of a desktop GPU, but the ID was changed to the usual one. I have even met such video cards.

[Tripredacus]

2 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

Video driver is not clear why it is not installed,

The message the nvidia installer gives is due to the HwID not being found or having a matching arch/OS the primary INF. I did not look at all, but the "64" CAB from MS did not have the HwID in the nvhda.inf. It doesn't match to the SUBSYS in nv_desktop_ref4wu.inf. So this is not the driver. In an INF, if a the subsys is present, then Windows will try to match to that. It doesn't matter if the VEN/DEV matches, if the subsys doesn't then it will report to the installer that the device isn't present.

[ED_Sln]

7 minutes ago, Tripredacus said:

It doesn't matter if the VEN/DEV matches, if the subsys doesn't then it will report to the installer that the device isn't present.

The nv_desktop_ref4i.inf has a very small list of video cards, for example my 950 is not there. The main part of video cards is in nv_dispi.inf, but almost all IDs there have no SUBSYS section, so a suitable ID will be found there.

[George King]

22 hours ago, D.Draker said:

Perhaps this is why it didn't work me, I always disable all logging, mind telling why do we need this logger to be active? thank you.

I don't remember, I just scanned how is update installed on live system and grabbed registry changes to be able to integrate it into Vista PE. In past I have also figured aout how to enable servicing again on boot.wim, but it's useless to do something with that crappy PE.

[D.Draker]

13 hours ago, Tripredacus said:

The message the nvidia installer gives is due to the HwID not being found or having a matching arch/OS the primary INF. I did not look at all, but the "64" CAB from MS did not have the HwID in the nvhda.inf. It doesn't match to the SUBSYS in nv_desktop_ref4wu.inf. So this is not the driver. In an INF, if a the subsys is present, then Windows will try to match to that. It doesn't matter if the VEN/DEV matches, if the subsys doesn't then it will report to the installer that the device isn't present.

That's what we always think. But the first driver I gave in the below post has a simplified (unified) string for all GTX960 models. All VEN and SUBSYS were removed intentionally so it must install on any brand of that gpu.

NVIDIA_DEV.1401 = "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960"

https://msfn.org/board/topic/186432-how-to-adopt-win7-drivers-to-vista/?do=findComment&comment=1271485

 

 

 

 

[D.Draker]

Under [NVIDIA_SetA_Devices.NTamd64.6.0] Gtx 960 has the default vendor 10DE (which is the standard code for nVidia and should installable on all models)

So the driver isn't locked! What I suggest, try to edit the inf 

from

%NVIDIA_DEV.1401%           = Section006, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1401

to your exact device manufacturer string.

%NVIDIA_DEV.1401%           = Section006, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1401&SUBSYS_36C11458&REV_A1

I'm thinking your card is locked in the BIOS to OEM only drivers.

[mardunaki]

On 8/22/2024 at 12:44 AM, D.Draker said:

https://www.mediafire.com/download/dwic3yw91t2dt2j/347.90-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql.exe

11 hours ago, ED_Sln said:

USB  working on my Z77 chipset on Vista. https://mega.nz/file/v7gFiALD#3WjTHP0Mx7idmuJ38SfUjkRC7epYR-3B3KTAUjQmMDo
What if you unzip the driver and install the driver through device manager?

 

guys... It just works! !! huge thanks to mr @D.Draker and @ED_Sln 
my card is: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 4GB WINDFORCE OC (GV-N960WF2OC-4GD)
this is crazy!! nvidia setup.exe for some reason failed at the first step of preparation, also .cab content won't install but, as previously mentioned,
great success through device manager with first one (347.90-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql)

USB: XHCI and UASPSTOR works well too, finally my flash drive usable on Vista!!!

Okay, as for now i need decent LAN CARD for the rest of the missing stuff!
would be nice to use Driver Easy Pro) which card u can recommend, considering my rig ?

or, just in case IDs of missing drivers:

1
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A127&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_31

2
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A131&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_31

3
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A160&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_31

4
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A161&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_31

5
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A13A&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_31

6
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A121&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_31

7
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A123&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_31

8
ACPI\INT345D
*INT345D

9
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1911&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_00

Network
PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_79961462&REV_15

Edited August 22, 2024 by mardunaki