Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Vista over-rules new nvidia gfx driver install

  • 07-10-2011 8:23am
    #1
    sticker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,061 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    I'm trying to install the latest nVidia GFX drivers on my Vista 32 bit system. But once I uninstall the older ones through add/remove program (and restart) windows automatically installs it's own GFX driver and will not allow the nVidia GFX app to load the latest drivers...

    I'm sure it's a strighforward procedure to install a new set of nVidia GFX drivers, but windows keeps jumping in after restart!

    Any help would be appreciated...


Comments

  • #2
    FSL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭FSL


    Have you tried not restarting as a restart will automatically install drivers for any Plug and Play devices it locates without drivers.


  • #3
    sticker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,061 ✭✭✭sticker


    FSL wrote: »
    Have you tried not restarting as a restart will automatically install drivers for any Plug and Play devices it locates without drivers.

    Hi, The new nVidia driver has a UI and if I try that it states "A restart is needed" - so I'm stuck in a perpetual loop of windows taking over the driver management...


  • #4
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    You don't need to uninstall old graphics drivers first. Just install the new ones.


  • #5
    sticker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,061 ✭✭✭sticker


    Voodu Child wrote: »
    You don't need to uninstall old graphics drivers first. Just install the new ones.

    I come from the days of Half Life when you always did - I mist be showing my age! - Many thanks


  • #6
    marco_polo
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,088 Mod ✭✭✭✭marco_polo


    sticker wrote: »
    I come from the days of Half Life when you always did - I mist be showing my age! - Many thanks

    Its usually just for third party drivers, never the default windows driver. As it is trying to reinstall it it is likely Vista needs it for something. Nowadays conflicts are fairly rare anyway as ATI and NVidia cards can happily live side by side in the same PC 99.9% of the time.

    Even if you are updating your current drivers (say ATI for example) they will simply just install over the previous version without needing to uninstall the previous version.

    The only time I really come across problems is if you try to rollback to a previous version of a driver, as the uninstall is usually not clean, in which case it is time to get out driversweeper to clean out all the crap left over from various drivers version and install from scratch. Very occasionaly you may have to do this for an update if you have problems but it would not be the norm by any means.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    sticker wrote: »
    I come from the days of Half Life when you always did - I mist be showing my age! - Many thanks

    There's no need to do it nowadays with the likes of Vista or Win7, unless you are actually having issues. You're much more likely to get a conflict by using 3rd party 'driver cleaners'.

    The likes of gamers might be constantly updating drivers every few weeks so they uninstall because video drivers can be quite big and they don't want dozens of old ones on their system.

    The problem you were having is easy to workaround if you really want but unless you've a reason to I wouldn't bother.


  • #8
    sticker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,061 ✭✭✭sticker


    As it turened out, I spent the day pulling teeth - The system installed a mickey mouse display driver would would not allow my desktop to reach full resolution - so I tried to simply install the digitally signed nVidia drivers, but the wizard for the nVidia installation kept coming up as a "fail" on install (with no other options)

    I enventually went into the device manager - uninstalled the display drivers there manually and restarted - same issue with the fail on the nVidia so back into device manager and "updated" both SLI display drivers - which resumed normal resolution.

    By Jeasus - what a pox! I know it's Vista (old-ish) but I honestly thought the days of driver madness were behind us!

    I just wanted to prep the system for a possible return to a bit of gaming - Rage and Battlefield 3 - I doubt they'll run on it now so maybe that long time put off of a new XPS might be on the cards!

    Thanks again for all the help... much apppreciated.


Advertisement