Need help with drivers

[jw1089]

a couple of days ago, i installed the latest driver for the Nvidia Geforce 7 series (i have a 7800 GTX) it was number 94.24. as i was installing, it told me that it didnt recognize my video card, and to not continue, but i did anyway. i ended up having to reinstall it, after i removed the driver after having an initial problem, so i thought it had been fixed. but the problems came back, namely that the computer would restart itself, or i would get a blue screen. when i booted up this morning.

my question is, is there a way i can get previous drivers, or get the system to properly recognize the one i have?

[mrmouth]

Did you uninstall the old driver package before you installed the newest?

My guess is you didnt do a clean uninstall before installing the new package.

This link is a guide for installing and optimizing you driver package, look at forceware installation and tidying up, I would recommend going through the entire guide though.

"Now we move on to the simplest, and yet most commonly mishandled part of using graphics drivers - the removal of previous Nvidia graphics drivers. To do this successfully, you need to follow some simple steps which will help guarantee that your installation of the drivers is 'clean', and leads to trouble-free performance. I particularly recommend this procedure if you are experiencing graphical corruption or strange behavior. To completely remove your existing graphics drivers and all traces of them from your system do the following...."



http://www.tweakguides.com/NVFORCE_3.html

[jw1089]

thanks for the response man, i appreciate it. ill have to give it a try when i get a chance.