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Re: Video card driver update

 
 
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      09-21-2004

"Bob" <> wrote in message
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> I ran windows update and it said I should upgrade video card driver

Nvidia
> Corporation - Video - NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS. It downloaded fine and

after it
> installed it said failed error 80246002 so I tryed a couple more

times same
> thing happend. I know this driver should work because I download the

driver
> before, on my old hard drive before it died, I m thinking with the

new
> updater with sp2 might be affecting it right now I m running SP1 I m

going to
> updated to sp2 later today. is there anything I can do to install

this
> driver, because I have tryed playing games like counter strike and

it only
> lets me use software graphic settings and not open gl I also went

to nvidas
> site and download driver but as it was installing I got a windows

message
> saying driver has not been tested by windows not recommend to be

installed it
> may cause problems, what can I do to get the newest driver?
>
> Than


I would recommend that you never use the Windows Update site to update
video drivers, or any drivers.
Go the the mfg's site and download and install the latest drivers
according to the mfg instructions.
Most of the driver stuff on the Windows site is old and doesn't
install properly .


 
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