I have done a search and cannot find out exactly what this graphics card is. Here is the info from the card itself. It is a dual monitor card for digital graphics. I've no idea if it's a GeForce, nForce, PCI Express, or any other type. TIA.

HINT (R)
HB1-SE33P
PCI-PCI Bridge
BA 0219TC
HiNT (m) (c) 2000

nVidia Corporation
Model P77

(check) N11071

I think this is it:
Lenovo Support & downloads - 64MB NVIDIA Quadro4 200NVS VGA or DVI-I Dual Head Graphics Adapter - Overview

Or its a NVS400.

ADD: Yeap, Its a NVS 400, Dual Monitor Card.
PNY

GPU-Z is a useful tool for graphics card information:

GPU-Z Video card GPU Information Utility

[quote=reflux;683735]GPU-Z is a useful tool for graphics card information:

Hi, guys. GPU-Z would not work without a driver called gbiplus.dll which I had to download separately, but that program said the card's "architecture is unknown". Thanks for giving it a try though. The GPU-Z program is really cool, thanks for pointing it out. I have other ATI and nVidia cards that it could help me with.

The card is definitely an nVidia Quadro4 400NVS, but, the drivers I downloaded are all flakey, or the card itself is flakey as many internet webpages say it is. The screen would flicker and several desktop icons would turn black and the system would freeze up whenever I installed the drivers into 2000 SP4 or XP SP2, but when the card was used with XP SP1 everything was fine. It's a lost cause, the card is something of a dud.

I have to go back in and completely reinstall SP1 in order to get this thing working. And even then there's no guarantee it will keep on working.

I'll keep on trying. Thank you for your assistance.

Try PC Wizard....

PC Wizard 2008 - Download

Another simple way of doing it would be go into control panel, then system, click device manager, double click on display adaptor, then click the details tab and a descrip should come up with your gpu's model.
Hope that helps...

The HiNT controller gave it away. The HiNT controller was designed for multi-GPU graphics cards and has it's roots back in the 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000, which had 4 GPUs.

It's purpose is to essentially simulate a PCI bus on an AGP card, because AGP cannot effectively use two or more GPUs on one AGP slot. AGP wasn't designed for multiple GPU's, it was designed for a single GPU, and IMO it was the downfall of the Voodoo 5500 AGP, had it used a HiNT controller it would have been much more effective and efficient at graphics rendering. This is why the 4500 single GPU is faster than the 5500 dual GPU. But I digress...

That's a nifty CAD card you have there, make good use of it.

Quote: Originally Posted by MRMOBEUS Another simple way of doing it would be go into control panel, then system, click device manager, double click on display adaptor, then click the details tab and a descrip should come up with your gpu's model. Hope that helps...

True sometimes, but if there are no drivers installed sometimes the name of the device doesn't show.

Quote: Originally Posted by j-dogg The HiNT controller gave it away. The HiNT controller was designed for multi-GPU graphics cards and has it's roots back in the 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000, which had 4 GPUs. It's purpose is to essentially simulate a PCI bus on an AGP card, because AGP cannot effectively use two or more GPUs on one AGP slot. AGP wasn't designed for multiple GPU's, it was designed for a single GPU, and IMO it was the downfall of the Voodoo 5500 AGP, had it used a HiNT controller it would have been much more effective and efficient at graphics rendering. This is why the 4500 single GPU is faster than the 5500 dual GPU. But I digress... That's a nifty CAD card you have there, make good use of it.

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Thanks for the info. The card is working fine at this time under W2K_SP1. I have to make a note and tape it to the outside of the PC reminding me not to upgrade the OS, otherwise I'll forget and a year or two down the line get a big surprise. I have several computers and cannot possiblt keep track of everything they need or don't need without making such notes. At this moment that PC is being used for educational purposes (no movie-making, no music creation, no gaming) like website construction (WebEasyv6) and image-manipulation (Photoshop Elements v2.0), of course I have the usual: iTunes, iPod, Media Player, just in case I need those programs. Hell, I'll be listening to music while I'm building websites, right? And charging up my iPod to take with me on the road.

I don't understand much about HiNT and Voodoo but I got the basic gist of what you are saying. What matters at this point is that the machine is now working. Btw, W2K installed drivers for it that work fine. I should probably stay away from installing the ones I downloaded from the net. Must make a note of that too. Leave well-enough alone or suffer the consequences of the damned as it were.

Take care guys.