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XP won't identify video card anymore !! Help !!
Hi,
I've just installed XP SP2 on system with a GeForce 2 400MX AGP card in it. On the install, XP correctly recognised the card and used it's own drivers. Later, I tried the latest Nvidia drivers (77.77) and found them to be a little sluggish in comparison. So, wanting to return to the original XP ones, I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers via control panel. On the reboot, XP detected the video card as a "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" and *not* as an "NVidia Geforce 2 MX 400" (which it did on the install). No matter what I do, I cannot get XP to recognise the card properly again, nor install any drivers for it. I can however reinstall the Nvidia ones and it is once again correctly seen as a Geforce 2 MX 400. Remove them, and I'm back to "vga compatible" !! I've tried 'sfc /scannow' to restore any critical files, but no joy. If I tell it to automatically install drivers for it, it says it can't find any, and likewise if I try manually ("I will choose the driver to install") once I choose Display Adapters in the category list, it says "no drivers are available" (or something to that effect). It's driving me nuts !!!! PLEASE !!! - Can someone help ? !! I'm presuming that the uninstall of the Nvidia drivers took something with them that XP uses to identify the card, but I don't know what !! Cheers, Kev. |
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You went wrong when you removed the Nvidia drivers using Add/Remove
programs. You should have just uninstalled the device in Device Manager. Try System Restore or a manual system restore from the recovery console. Brian P. A+, Network+, MCP wrote in message ... Hi, I've just installed XP SP2 on system with a GeForce 2 400MX AGP card in it. On the install, XP correctly recognised the card and used it's own drivers. Later, I tried the latest Nvidia drivers (77.77) and found them to be a little sluggish in comparison. So, wanting to return to the original XP ones, I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers via control panel. On the reboot, XP detected the video card as a "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" and *not* as an "NVidia Geforce 2 MX 400" (which it did on the install). No matter what I do, I cannot get XP to recognise the card properly again, nor install any drivers for it. I can however reinstall the Nvidia ones and it is once again correctly seen as a Geforce 2 MX 400. Remove them, and I'm back to "vga compatible" !! I've tried 'sfc /scannow' to restore any critical files, but no joy. If I tell it to automatically install drivers for it, it says it can't find any, and likewise if I try manually ("I will choose the driver to install") once I choose Display Adapters in the category list, it says "no drivers are available" (or something to that effect). It's driving me nuts !!!! PLEASE !!! - Can someone help ? !! I'm presuming that the uninstall of the Nvidia drivers took something with them that XP uses to identify the card, but I don't know what !! Cheers, Kev. |
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You went wrong when you removed the Nvidia drivers using Add/Remove
programs. You should have just uninstalled the device in Device Manager. Try System Restore or a manual system restore from the recovery console. Brian P. A+, Network+, MCP Wouldn't XP just then have then redetected the card and used the *still installed* Nvidia drivers ? Besides, everywhere I've looked all say to use add / remove programs, and I've done this before on other machines without any problems - it's always gone back to the default XP drivers. I can't do a system restore now, I've put too much software on since then and don't want to reinstall everything ! Surely the 'official' way to uninstall drivers is via add/remove programs, and not via device manager ?? wrote in message .. . Hi, I've just installed XP SP2 on system with a GeForce 2 400MX AGP card in it. On the install, XP correctly recognised the card and used it's own drivers. Later, I tried the latest Nvidia drivers (77.77) and found them to be a little sluggish in comparison. So, wanting to return to the original XP ones, I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers via control panel. On the reboot, XP detected the video card as a "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" and *not* as an "NVidia Geforce 2 MX 400" (which it did on the install). No matter what I do, I cannot get XP to recognise the card properly again, nor install any drivers for it. I can however reinstall the Nvidia ones and it is once again correctly seen as a Geforce 2 MX 400. Remove them, and I'm back to "vga compatible" !! I've tried 'sfc /scannow' to restore any critical files, but no joy. If I tell it to automatically install drivers for it, it says it can't find any, and likewise if I try manually ("I will choose the driver to install") once I choose Display Adapters in the category list, it says "no drivers are available" (or something to that effect). It's driving me nuts !!!! PLEASE !!! - Can someone help ? !! I'm presuming that the uninstall of the Nvidia drivers took something with them that XP uses to identify the card, but I don't know what !! Cheers, Kev. |
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No actually the proper way is using the device manager as
95% of your drivers do not have a nice little installation package that will appear in Add/Remove programs. A system restore should not wipe out your programs and files, unless you use the restore files from the %windir%\repair folder in the recovery console. Go to the Nvidia website and search the archives for a previous release of the drivers you need. Brian P. A+, Network+, MCP wrote in message ... You went wrong when you removed the Nvidia drivers using Add/Remove programs. You should have just uninstalled the device in Device Manager. Try System Restore or a manual system restore from the recovery console. Brian P. A+, Network+, MCP Wouldn't XP just then have then redetected the card and used the *still installed* Nvidia drivers ? Besides, everywhere I've looked all say to use add / remove programs, and I've done this before on other machines without any problems - it's always gone back to the default XP drivers. I can't do a system restore now, I've put too much software on since then and don't want to reinstall everything ! Surely the 'official' way to uninstall drivers is via add/remove programs, and not via device manager ?? wrote in message .. . Hi, I've just installed XP SP2 on system with a GeForce 2 400MX AGP card in it. On the install, XP correctly recognised the card and used it's own drivers. Later, I tried the latest Nvidia drivers (77.77) and found them to be a little sluggish in comparison. So, wanting to return to the original XP ones, I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers via control panel. On the reboot, XP detected the video card as a "Video Controller (VGA Compatible)" and *not* as an "NVidia Geforce 2 MX 400" (which it did on the install). No matter what I do, I cannot get XP to recognise the card properly again, nor install any drivers for it. I can however reinstall the Nvidia ones and it is once again correctly seen as a Geforce 2 MX 400. Remove them, and I'm back to "vga compatible" !! I've tried 'sfc /scannow' to restore any critical files, but no joy. If I tell it to automatically install drivers for it, it says it can't find any, and likewise if I try manually ("I will choose the driver to install") once I choose Display Adapters in the category list, it says "no drivers are available" (or something to that effect). It's driving me nuts !!!! PLEASE !!! - Can someone help ? !! I'm presuming that the uninstall of the Nvidia drivers took something with them that XP uses to identify the card, but I don't know what !! Cheers, Kev. |
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