| Author | Message | ||
     James Rating: N/A |
Hi, I've searched the forums but cannot find a method that works. I have just bought a GeForce 4 MX440 graphics card to use with my Relevator 3D glasses and to get a game working that needs something better than my previous Nvidia TNT2 card. I've installed the card and Windows found it and automatically installed the Windows drivers for the card. I want to install the latest Detonators but for the life of me, I cannot uninstall the old drivers without Windows XP automatically reinstalling its Windows drivers after the obligatory reboot so I find myself back at square one. I can't even uninstall, stall the reboot and change to Standard VGA as it won't let me until after the reboot or I don't get the Standard VGA driver show in the driver box, it only shows Nvidia drivers that Windows has with no way of getting to anything else. Since I couldn't do anything about it, I let Windows install its crappy standard driver and then just installed the Detonators. This has worked according to 'driver properties' which I looked at after the reboot although I did get a warning from the Detonator install file that old Nvidia drivers were present and should be uninstalled first. But now I have messed-up looking icons in the taskbar and when trying to play Splinter Cell - the game I got the new card for - it crashed as soon as the videos ended and I was able to play the game, I pressed the up arrow to move and got the blue screen of death. Perhaps this isn't due to the driver problem but still, the messed-up icons in the taskbar are enough to warrant doing it right. Please, can someone tell me a method which works in Windows XP to uninstall the present display drivers, reboot and then NOT have Windows immediately jump in saying it's found new hardware and then installing its standard Nvidia driver? Incidentally, it's the 43.45 detonator I'm installing, not the newest one, as I want to use my Elsa Relevators on this card and am using this driver with the 43.03 stereo 3D driver. Any and all help very much appreciated. Thanks, James | ||
| ericbrown Rating: N/A |
If your current installation is detecting old driver files, it's not from the driver installed by XP. The best and most reliable way to uninstall ANY device drive would be to boot into safe mode (Hold the F8 key JUST before the windows boot screen loads. Once the menu appears, choose 'Safe Mode'). Once you uninstall all the drivers in safe mode, reset the PC and let it boot normally. The PC "should" ask for driver information once the OS loads. If it continues to install the drivers from the XP database, let it. Simply install the new drivers and do a reset again. This should work! Let us know... Respectfully, Eric D. Brown FrozenX Virtual Realities, LLC http://www.frozenx.com | ||
| Anonymous Rating: N/A |
Use Detonator RIP or Detonator Destroyer to clean registry entries and old files out of windows. RIP is best, but there's a big .net runtime file you need to download from Microsoft to get it to work...but it's worth it. It helped me to get my setup working. Get them from www.guru3d.com | ||
| ricky Rating: N/A |
HEKP!!! I just bought a ASUS GeForce FX5200 Video Card and it freezes up when I test it on DirectX 9.0 during the 3D testing area.. Also the card freezes up during games, mostly the older ones.. The driver for the display was unable to complete a drawing operation |
