I reloaded an optiplex GX270 with XP SP3 to replace another machine that for some annoying reasons has to have XP on it (an old piece of hardware needs to be supported and has no drivers after XP).

Anyway, I ran into problems that others also have and got through it not seeing the network card or sound.   However device manager is still reporting no video driver.

When I open the box, there's a DVI board that says:

Silicon Image

Sil 164 Carrera ADD Card

Sil-SC-0034C Rev 1.3

Entering the asset tag shows this machine originally shipped (assume it's the same one still in the box)  with:

8M206

Adapter, Graphics, Digital video Interface, LPF-BRKT

Nothing else on the manifest shows video but not sure how many configurations this box might have shipped with.  I really don't care about the DVI port anyway as I only have something hooked up to the VGA port.  I can install that driver if need be but is really a don't care.

Anyway, XP Device manager currently shows a yellow question mark for "Other Devices" Video Controller (VGA Compatible).

Without a driver, I can't set the resolution to anything past 640x480 (16 color)

I tried looking at the list of drivers to guess the most appropriate one and tried the one below only because it didn't seem like a fix for something and it mentioned dual DVI/VGA in it which is definitely what this box has.

R253949.exe

and labeled:

ATI 64MB PCI-Express x16 (DVI/TV-out) Radeon X300 SE, 128MB PCI-Express x16 (Dual VGA or DVI) Radeon X300, v.8.263.5.1-060607a-035600C, A02 ATI 64MB PCI-Express x16 (DVI/TV-out) Radeon X300 SE, 128MB PCI-Express x16 (Dual VGA or DVI) Radeon X300, v.8.263.5.1-060607a-035600C, A02

Anyway, running that program seemed to basically just abort (maybe because it wasn't the right one), but definitely didn't solve the problem of not seeing a driver in device manager.  I even tried another setup under a driver directory that got created.

Any ideas on what video driver I really should use?   I can try them all but have seen other posts about people getting in trouble when using the opposite port (DVI vs VGA) that has become the "active" one based on drivers.   Just thought I'd reach out first.

Thanks!