Re: NVidia Graphic driver

Advised by NVIDIA staff today I successfully installed their driver 177.83 for the 8 series.
You will find it here:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcew...s/download.asp
It is huge: 109 MB... (why? what does it do different than the old 50MB?)
Download it to your desktop.
Now FIRST create a System Rrecovery Point, providing upto now your machine runs fine.
Or remember to which earlier poit you may want to revert in case of trouble.
In normal mode uninstall your current driver from the NVIDIA software list.
Your screen will go funny.
Reboot into safe mode, preferably incluidng networking so you can Google and stuff.
Use a Guru3.com Driver Sweeper. Clean both Reg and prog files for the NVIDIA display drivers.
Verify the result in the Sweeper's Log.
If you have a Recovery Partition containing the "old"driver stuff disable all .INF and .DAT files by
just adding .OFF to the extension.
Vista will protest but just make it look like *.INF.OFF and *.DAT.OFF, so the OS cannot get mixed up
finding older drivers.
Then run the Install Wizard which might take a long time, like 12 minutes and its Progress BAr not
moving at all...
Sometimes it says it's done and it's not.
Just retry. Sometimes it says "not installed" but it is... weird. Try your luck.
Reboot into full mode and, when everything seems to be running, go to device manager > display
adapter > properties and see if the adapter really runs from something called 7.15.11.7783.
As it happens MS offered an automatic update today BUT - you cannot see what version it is. Don't
install - UNTICK.
Always set your MS Automatic Update to Manual Install, never AUT so you have control.
Good luck,
let me know how you fare.
Maria





"denmarfl" <> schreef in bericht
news:11452758-349F-4C91-BF10-...
> Running Vista Home Prem 32bit with Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB Graphic Card.
> Factory installed driver ver 167.37. When I try to upgrade to a newer NVidia
> driver (tried 174.74 and 175.19); following the Upgrade my PC Shutsdown
> abnormally. It flips from the desktop to a Vista screen that reads PLEASE
> WAIT, back to the desktop, then to a Vista Screen that reads Shutting down.
> I know this is caused by updating the driver because if I delete the upgraded
> Nvidia Driver and let Windows assign the driver my Shutdown is fine. It
> seems all is fine if I use the factory installed 167.37 driver, or, the
> Windows driver.
>
> Anyone else with the same card experiencing this problem after updating? I
> have worked with the Manufacturers and NVidia Tech agents and so far neither
> have been able to determine the cause. After 1 of the upgrades I actually
> had to use the Factory restore Image to get my PC to shutdown properly.

The Update offered by Windows is 175.19.

I have worked with a Nvidia tech Agent to try to install on updated Nvidia
driver (OS Vista Home Prem 32Bit; GeForce 8800GT 512mb). We used the method
you outlined....the Install caused an Abnormal Shutdown of my PC. When you
clicked ReStart or Shutdown the screen would flip from the Desktop to a Vista
Screen that read PLEASE WAIT, back to the desktop, then to another Vista
Screen that read SHUTTING Down. After restoring back to the prior Nvidia
Driver (167.36) and my PC shutting down properly.....Desktop to Shutting Down
Screen, I then simply tried installing a newer NVidia Driver but this time I
did not go thru all the steps....in fact, the DriverSweeper tool wouldn't
install when I was working with Nvidia. So I simply Uninstalled the old
driver (Device Mgr) and installed the newer Version. When I did this I ended
up with the same bad result, my PC again began to shutdown abnormally as
decribed above.

My point, at least for me, it did not matter if I used the safe Mode
process, The Driversweeper Cleaner or just Uninstall and Install in Normal
mode...the results were the same.

NVidia did say that it could be the driver "broke a registry Code", their
words. Further, they have informed me that they released a New driver 177.83
which has many Fixes....but there are no Relese notes available as yet.



"MPS" wrote:

> Advised by NVIDIA staff today I successfully installed their driver 177.83 for the 8 series.
> You will find it here:
> http://www.nvidia.com/content/forcew...s/download.asp
> It is huge: 109 MB... (why? what does it do different than the old 50MB?)
> Download it to your desktop.
> Now FIRST create a System Rrecovery Point, providing upto now your machine runs fine.
> Or remember to which earlier poit you may want to revert in case of trouble.
> In normal mode uninstall your current driver from the NVIDIA software list.
> Your screen will go funny.
> Reboot into safe mode, preferably incluidng networking so you can Google and stuff.
> Use a Guru3.com Driver Sweeper. Clean both Reg and prog files for the NVIDIA display drivers.
> Verify the result in the Sweeper's Log.
> If you have a Recovery Partition containing the "old"driver stuff disable all .INF and .DAT files by
> just adding .OFF to the extension.
> Vista will protest but just make it look like *.INF.OFF and *.DAT.OFF, so the OS cannot get mixed up
> finding older drivers.
> Then run the Install Wizard which might take a long time, like 12 minutes and its Progress BAr not
> moving at all...
> Sometimes it says it's done and it's not.
> Just retry. Sometimes it says "not installed" but it is... weird. Try your luck.
> Reboot into full mode and, when everything seems to be running, go to device manager > display
> adapter > properties and see if the adapter really runs from something called 7.15.11.7783.
> As it happens MS offered an automatic update today BUT - you cannot see what version it is. Don't
> install - UNTICK.
> Always set your MS Automatic Update to Manual Install, never AUT so you have control.
> Good luck,
> let me know how you fare.
> Maria
>
>
>
>
>
> "denmarfl" <> schreef in bericht
> news:11452758-349F-4C91-BF10-...
> > Running Vista Home Prem 32bit with Nvidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB Graphic Card.
> > Factory installed driver ver 167.37. When I try to upgrade to a newer NVidia
> > driver (tried 174.74 and 175.19); following the Upgrade my PC Shutsdown
> > abnormally. It flips from the desktop to a Vista screen that reads PLEASE
> > WAIT, back to the desktop, then to a Vista Screen that reads Shutting down.
> > I know this is caused by updating the driver because if I delete the upgraded
> > Nvidia Driver and let Windows assign the driver my Shutdown is fine. It
> > seems all is fine if I use the factory installed 167.37 driver, or, the
> > Windows driver.
> >
> > Anyone else with the same card experiencing this problem after updating? I
> > have worked with the Manufacturers and NVidia Tech agents and so far neither
> > have been able to determine the cause. After 1 of the upgrades I actually
> > had to use the Factory restore Image to get my PC to shutdown properly.
>
>