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November 11th 04, 02:59 PM
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whats up with the unified driver?
i had a geforce2 mx i just replaced with a 6800 (non GT). I went to install
the unified driver and after the installshield part with the boxes showing you percentage complete hit 100%, the install screen just vanished and that was the end of that. i ended up using the CD that came with the card which i'm sure is not the latest driver. the i installed the geforce2 mx in my wife's machine and used the unified driver (downloaded again, not the same copy as i used before) and the same thing happened. i ended up using the old leadtek winfast cd that came with the card. 
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November 11th 04, 06:57 PM
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Might help to uninstall the old driver first, reboot, install the new one to
the end, reboot, and see what you've got. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots.
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November 11th 04, 07:02 PM
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i suppose, but on my machine where i installed the 6800, it booted up using
the standard VGA driver. the unified driver has been around so long i figured most issues like this would have been worked out. the first time i figured it was a fluke with my machine/card, but since it happened again on an entirely different machine/card..... i'll try an older driver version and see where that gets me. i'm getting crap performance under doom3 with the driver that came with the card. even 800x600 at medium resolution is jerky (2.6GHz celeron, 512 meg memory, 6800, xp pro). granted my processor isn't the greatest, but hopefully it's enough. "Ed Light" wrote in message news:5COkd.93042$bk1.13604@fed1read05... Might help to uninstall the old driver first, reboot, install the new one to the end, reboot, and see what you've got. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots.
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November 11th 04, 07:16 PM
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i downloaded 6.6.8.1 under the beta section and that installed fine.
"Rob" wrote in message news:MGOkd.3403$4U1.690@trndny05... i suppose, but on my machine where i installed the 6800, it booted up using the standard VGA driver. the unified driver has been around so long i figured most issues like this would have been worked out. the first time i figured it was a fluke with my machine/card, but since it happened again on an entirely different machine/card..... i'll try an older driver version and see where that gets me. i'm getting crap performance under doom3 with the driver that came with the card. even 800x600 at medium resolution is jerky (2.6GHz celeron, 512 meg memory, 6800, xp pro). granted my processor isn't the greatest, but hopefully it's enough. "Ed Light" wrote in message news:5COkd.93042$bk1.13604@fed1read05... Might help to uninstall the old driver first, reboot, install the new one to the end, reboot, and see what you've got. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots.
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November 11th 04, 07:59 PM
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"Rob" wrote in message news:2UOkd.744$lY1.520@trndny04... i downloaded 6.6.8.1 under the beta section and that installed fine. Great. I guess you uninstalled the old drivers from Add or Remove Programs? -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots.
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November 11th 04, 08:43 PM
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no, i just installed this right over the old one.
"Ed Light" wrote in message news:iwPkd.93052$bk1.17525@fed1read05... "Rob" wrote in message news:2UOkd.744$lY1.520@trndny04... i downloaded 6.6.8.1 under the beta section and that installed fine. Great. I guess you uninstalled the old drivers from Add or Remove Programs? -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots.
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November 11th 04, 08:51 PM
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"Rob" wrote in message news:V9Qkd.2300$uT1.1512@trndny03... no, i just installed this right over the old one. "Ed Light" wrote in message news:iwPkd.93052$bk1.17525@fed1read05... "Rob" wrote in message news:2UOkd.744$lY1.520@trndny04... i downloaded 6.6.8.1 under the beta section and that installed fine. Great. I guess you uninstalled the old drivers from Add or Remove Programs? Nvidia says to uninstall first, and of course it's best to reboot at each change. Then you wind up on that standard vga again. But Nvidia doesn't make it obvious unless you look for their instructions. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots.
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#8
November 11th 04, 09:45 PM
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"Ed Light" wrote in message news:WgQkd.93059$bk1.25236@fed1read05... "Rob" wrote in message news:V9Qkd.2300$uT1.1512@trndny03... no, i just installed this right over the old one. "Ed Light" wrote in message news:iwPkd.93052$bk1.17525@fed1read05... "Rob" wrote in message news:2UOkd.744$lY1.520@trndny04... i downloaded 6.6.8.1 under the beta section and that installed fine. Great. I guess you uninstalled the old drivers from Add or Remove Programs? Nvidia says to uninstall first, and of course it's best to reboot at each change. Then you wind up on that standard vga again. But Nvidia doesn't make it obvious unless you look for their instructions. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. ok ill keep that in mind, though it still doesnt explain the problems i was having (both times i was on the standard vga driver). appears just to be an issue with that one particular package (the latest WHQL certified one).
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#9
November 11th 04, 10:06 PM
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Maybe you got a corrupted download.
DaveL "Rob" wrote in message news:m4Rkd.3410$4U1.716@trndny05... "Ed Light" wrote in message news:WgQkd.93059$bk1.25236@fed1read05... "Rob" wrote in message news:V9Qkd.2300$uT1.1512@trndny03... no, i just installed this right over the old one. "Ed Light" wrote in message news:iwPkd.93052$bk1.17525@fed1read05... "Rob" wrote in message news:2UOkd.744$lY1.520@trndny04... i downloaded 6.6.8.1 under the beta section and that installed fine. Great. I guess you uninstalled the old drivers from Add or Remove Programs? Nvidia says to uninstall first, and of course it's best to reboot at each change. Then you wind up on that standard vga again. But Nvidia doesn't make it obvious unless you look for their instructions. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. ok ill keep that in mind, though it still doesnt explain the problems i was having (both times i was on the standard vga driver). appears just to be an issue with that one particular package (the latest WHQL certified one).
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#10
November 11th 04, 10:11 PM
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covered that one above. i downloaded it twice. besides a corrupted
download wouldn't take me halfway through the install process then die. the only corruption that would cause that would be a file internal to the installshield package being corrupt and that would be something nvidia would have had to have screwed up on their end. "DaveL" wrote in message ... Maybe you got a corrupted download. DaveL "Rob" wrote in message news:m4Rkd.3410$4U1.716@trndny05... "Ed Light" wrote in message news:WgQkd.93059$bk1.25236@fed1read05... "Rob" wrote in message news:V9Qkd.2300$uT1.1512@trndny03... no, i just installed this right over the old one. "Ed Light" wrote in message news:iwPkd.93052$bk1.17525@fed1read05... "Rob" wrote in message news:2UOkd.744$lY1.520@trndny04... i downloaded 6.6.8.1 under the beta section and that installed fine. Great. I guess you uninstalled the old drivers from Add or Remove Programs? Nvidia says to uninstall first, and of course it's best to reboot at each change. Then you wind up on that standard vga again. But Nvidia doesn't make it obvious unless you look for their instructions. -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. ok ill keep that in mind, though it still doesnt explain the problems i was having (both times i was on the standard vga driver). appears just to be an issue with that one particular package (the latest WHQL certified one).
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