Video driver not installing

[[Neo770]]

Hello all,

Here’s my problem for today.

I’v just installed windows 2000 on this computer, it has an old Viper 550 video card. When I had XP on it yesterday all was fine, the Nvidia drivers installed first go. Today after installing windows 2000 (don’t ask why I went back it’s a long story) the Nvidia drivers won’t install. I run the file fine and it goes through the installation but on reboot windows still has its inbuilt Viper 550 driver installed.

What have I done now, usually win2k and me are best of friends?

[Dj-Icer]

Weird. To go all over from the start, is to format your hard drive.

I have a new HDD. I installed in the Win 98. Its really irritating when you have to find the driver and everything was like, in seperate parts and I had to put it all together again. It was a mess, i mean my table, full of driver cd's. I have to also find the correct driver, esp the display. Had big problems on display, stuff like screen area. All turned out well after I have overwrite my current OS with the Windows XP.

Everything easily describe as, I have no worries with the drivers. Its all there in the machine But one problem, its not big but I can't run a specific program after double-clicking on an icon. I.E. my norton anti-virus, User icon and so on. What I did was, I had to hold pressing the Enter button for a short few seconds and the entire box immerge. Then i alt-f4 to shut'em all down. It works like that way but it is strange as well. The rest are okay, for this while I think

[Sweeper]

remove the drivers, reboot, install new drivers... make sure you have full admin rights. If not all that will be worthless....

[[Neo770]]

I have tried removing the Windows inbuild drivers by pressing uninstall on the cards driver properties, on reboot windows was all big and ugly like it should be. Then I install the nvidia drivers, reboot, and windows had its Viper 550 drivers loaded again. ???

And yes, I am logged in as the Administrator.

[[Neo770]]

I think this thread needs a bump as windows still dosent like me.

[eagle1]

Instead of removing the original driver, have you tried to just update the driver by going to system properties, device manager, video cards, opening it's properties, pressing the Update driver buttons and when you do that Windows it's suppossed to let YOU choose where is the new drivers folder. You select the folder and windows will find (if any) the driver.

The problem could be compatibility. Are you sure you have a Win2k compatible version of the drivers or is it just for winXP?

[rusty4x4]

Updating the driver will likely help. But if I'm reading you right, you want as clean an install as possible. Try the Nasty File remover (http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/1/12-1-28.shtml) after you've uninstalled the old driver. This will really obliterate those pesky nv* files. Then reinstall.