How to install nvidia drivers PROPERLY?

[Ilkka]

When im playing intense games, the computer locks up to
blue screen with certain errors. I'm not going to tell
what those errors are. But I want to ask something. When I
delete my video drivers and reboot, in startup of windows
it re-assigns new (probably crappy) drivers. They are
dated. I want it to stop doing that. That might cause a
conflict because I cant do a proper installation of new
drivers. It is a Plug & Pray feature. (hehe) When I
disable that service and look to device manager, it is
empty. So thats not probably the correct way to do it...
So all I want is that I could install the newest nvidia
drivers right.

[Alex Nichol]

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware:124840

Ilkka wrote:

>When im playing intense games, the computer locks up to
>blue screen with certain errors. I'm not going to tell
>what those errors are. But I want to ask something. When I
>delete my video drivers and reboot, in startup of windows
>it re-assigns new (probably crappy) drivers. They are
>dated. I want it to stop doing that. That might cause a
>conflict because I cant do a proper installation of new
>drivers. It is a Plug & Pray feature.

Get the latest nVidia drivers from www.nvidia.com, in the Downloads -
Win XP drivers section. Latest I saw a week ago are version 43.5.
Download the installation program (8.75 MB) and save somewhere
convenient.

Turn off any resident antivirus check in its own settings

Go to a Start - Run of MSConfig.exe and

a: make sure that in Startup and in Services (with 'Hide Microsoft
selected) the AV is set not to start . Apply.

b: on the Boot.ini page check /BASEVIDEO Apply,

OK out and reboot, into these basic drivers. When a screen comes up
about Troubleshooting, check 'do not tell me again', and Exit

Run MSConfig again, and uncheck /BASEVIDEO, Apply, Exit and do *not*
reboot, then run the nvidia installation program. It will reboot with
those drivers in action, and you can now re-enable the things you turned
off.
Next boot - same to the Troubleshooting pane

--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.

[Ilkka]

>Get the latest nVidia drivers from www.nvidia.com, in the
Downloads -
>Win XP drivers section. Latest I saw a week ago are
version 43.5.
>Download the installation program (8.75 MB) and save
somewhere
>convenient.
>
>Turn off any resident antivirus check in its own settings
>
>Go to a Start - Run of MSConfig.exe and
>
>a: make sure that in Startup and in Services (with 'Hide
Microsoft
>selected) the AV is set not to start . Apply.
>
>b: on the Boot.ini page check /BASEVIDEO Apply,
>
>OK out and reboot, into these basic drivers. When a
screen comes up
>about Troubleshooting, check 'do not tell me again', and
Exit
>
>Run MSConfig again, and uncheck /BASEVIDEO, Apply, Exit
and do *not*
>reboot, then run the nvidia installation program. It
will reboot with
>those drivers in action, and you can now re-enable the
things you turned
>off.
>Next boot - same to the Troubleshooting pane
>
>--
>Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
>Bournemouth, U.K.
>.


That was a good one, Alex Nichol. But my problem isn't
solved. I get an error message in blue screen...
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL or IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. I
know this is a usual problem with Windows XP. I also know
that this can be caused by conflicting hardware or bad
drivers. I have tried switching video card drivers and no
use. I'm not sure what to do. It pointed me to something
called usbuhci.dll. It reminds me about USB so I decided
to look for adsl drivers. My drivers are beta version I
guess. I want a good ones but I can't find a good site. Of
course it can be any driver. I have no idea how to debug
this problem. I don't want to investigate my hardware one
by one. Please, I need help with this. Is Microsoft
looking into these blue screens? I want this to stop.
>