Graphics driver conflict

[Simon Williams]

Hi everyone,
Having previously been working perfectly for several months my computer now
refuses to boot into windows with the nVidia VGA driver installed for my
6600GT. Having booted into safe mode it is possible to uninstall the driver
and having done this windows boots normally, but not having a proper display
driver installed makes using the computer normally impossible. When I try to
reinstall the driver the computer crashes and reboots, and windows will not
boot again. The problem appears to occur when windows tries to load the
nv4_mini.sys driver. I believe that the problem is caused by a conflicting
driver for another piece of hardware(?), but I have been unable to find out
which one. How can I track down the conflicting driver? Do you have any other
suggestions?
Thanks,
Simon

[MAP]

Simon Williams wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Having previously been working perfectly for several months my
> computer now refuses to boot into windows with the nVidia VGA driver
> installed for my 6600GT. Having booted into safe mode it is possible
> to uninstall the driver and having done this windows boots normally,
> but not having a proper display driver installed makes using the
> computer normally impossible. When I try to reinstall the driver the
> computer crashes and reboots, and windows will not boot again. The
> problem appears to occur when windows tries to load the nv4_mini.sys
> driver. I believe that the problem is caused by a conflicting driver
> for another piece of hardware(?), but I have been unable to find out
> which one. How can I track down the conflicting driver? Do you have
> any other suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Simon

--
Mike Pawlak

[MAP]

Simon Williams wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> Having previously been working perfectly for several months my
> computer now refuses to boot into windows with the nVidia VGA driver
> installed for my 6600GT. Having booted into safe mode it is possible
> to uninstall the driver and having done this windows boots normally,
> but not having a proper display driver installed makes using the
> computer normally impossible. When I try to reinstall the driver the
> computer crashes and reboots, and windows will not boot again. The
> problem appears to occur when windows tries to load the nv4_mini.sys
> driver. I believe that the problem is caused by a conflicting driver
> for another piece of hardware(?), but I have been unable to find out
> which one. How can I track down the conflicting driver? Do you have
> any other suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Simon

Have you tried using and older driver?
The latest and greatest is not always the best.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=884

--
Mike Pawlak

[Simon Williams]

Hi Mike,
I've tried several different versions of the driver without any success. I
was hoping that a new version would sort out the problem, but it didn't.
I've also tried using Driver Cleaner after uninstalling the driver, then
reinstalling and also reinstalling the chipset drivers, but nothing made any
difference.

Any other ideas?

Simon.

"MAP" wrote:

> Simon Williams wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > Having previously been working perfectly for several months my
> > computer now refuses to boot into windows with the nVidia VGA driver
> > installed for my 6600GT. Having booted into safe mode it is possible
> > to uninstall the driver and having done this windows boots normally,
> > but not having a proper display driver installed makes using the
> > computer normally impossible. When I try to reinstall the driver the
> > computer crashes and reboots, and windows will not boot again. The
> > problem appears to occur when windows tries to load the nv4_mini.sys
> > driver. I believe that the problem is caused by a conflicting driver
> > for another piece of hardware(?), but I have been unable to find out
> > which one. How can I track down the conflicting driver? Do you have
> > any other suggestions?
> > Thanks,
> > Simon
>
> Have you tried using and older driver?
> The latest and greatest is not always the best.
>
> http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=884
>
> --
> Mike Pawlak
>
>
>

[Rich Barry]

Simon, rt click on MyComputer>select Properties>Hardware>Device Manager.
Look for a yellow mark next to any
of the devices. If none, try going to Start>All
Programs>Accessories>System Tools>System Info. Expand to
Components>problem devices. Also, try this free tool
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=582


"Simon Williams" <Simon > wrote in message
...
> Hi everyone,
> Having previously been working perfectly for several months my computer
> now
> refuses to boot into windows with the nVidia VGA driver installed for my
> 6600GT. Having booted into safe mode it is possible to uninstall the
> driver
> and having done this windows boots normally, but not having a proper
> display
> driver installed makes using the computer normally impossible. When I try
> to
> reinstall the driver the computer crashes and reboots, and windows will
> not
> boot again. The problem appears to occur when windows tries to load the
> nv4_mini.sys driver. I believe that the problem is caused by a conflicting
> driver for another piece of hardware(?), but I have been unable to find
> out
> which one. How can I track down the conflicting driver? Do you have any
> other
> suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Simon