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Newbie: X64 Nvidia Graphics Driver Upgrade
Although experienced in other areas, I'm relatively new to upgrading
graphics drivers and have a question. I have Windows XP Pro x64 installed on an MSI K8N Neo Platinum 3 with an Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice core) CPU and an Asus GeForce 6200. I've downloaded the 77.72 x64 WHQL candidate drivers from the Nvidia website. I removed the old Nvidia drivers using Add Remove Software, then attempted to install the new drivers. The driver files are successfully installed into a C:\Nvidia directory, but when the Nvidia setup program runs, it fails right after the logo with the error that it "can't find any drivers compatible with your hardware setup. Setup will exit." Tried with an older driver version (71.84) I had downloaded earlier but hadn't tried to install with the same results. When I originally installed the Asus 6200 on the cleanly installed x64 system, it would also not install, apparently having a problem with the setup program Asus used for its drivers, couldn't even copy the drivers over, so I have just been using the generic Microsoft driver up till now. Where have I gone wrong? |
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A few revisions ago, you stopped having to un-install the pervious drivers
before install.... it is probably looking for the origional install location for the drivers...... IE: your CD rom....either burn the new drivers to a disk, or reinstall the original ones, and then update with the new ones....... hope this helps Dennis "Jed" wrote in message ... Although experienced in other areas, I'm relatively new to upgrading graphics drivers and have a question. I have Windows XP Pro x64 installed on an MSI K8N Neo Platinum 3 with an Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice core) CPU and an Asus GeForce 6200. I've downloaded the 77.72 x64 WHQL candidate drivers from the Nvidia website. I removed the old Nvidia drivers using Add Remove Software, then attempted to install the new drivers. The driver files are successfully installed into a C:\Nvidia directory, but when the Nvidia setup program runs, it fails right after the logo with the error that it "can't find any drivers compatible with your hardware setup. Setup will exit." Tried with an older driver version (71.84) I had downloaded earlier but hadn't tried to install with the same results. When I originally installed the Asus 6200 on the cleanly installed x64 system, it would also not install, apparently having a problem with the setup program Asus used for its drivers, couldn't even copy the drivers over, so I have just been using the generic Microsoft driver up till now. Where have I gone wrong? |
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:49:09 -0700, Jed
wrote: Although experienced in other areas, I'm relatively new to upgrading graphics drivers and have a question. I have Windows XP Pro x64 installed on an MSI K8N Neo Platinum 3 with an Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice core) CPU and an Asus GeForce 6200. I've downloaded the 77.72 x64 WHQL candidate drivers from the Nvidia website. I removed the old Nvidia drivers using Add Remove Software, then attempted to install the new drivers. The driver files are successfully installed into a C:\Nvidia directory, but when the Nvidia setup program runs, it fails right after the logo with the error that it "can't find any drivers compatible with your hardware setup. Setup will exit." Tried with an older driver version (71.84) I had downloaded earlier but hadn't tried to install with the same results. When I originally installed the Asus 6200 on the cleanly installed x64 system, it would also not install, apparently having a problem with the setup program Asus used for its drivers, couldn't even copy the drivers over, so I have just been using the generic Microsoft driver up till now. Where have I gone wrong? have you unlocked the card for more pipelines? or are you overclocking? if so revert to default settings & retry. drunk ratt ------------------------------------------------------------ gary: so there's no chance we can be together? lisa: only if you promise me you'll never die. gary: you know i can't promise that. lisa: if you could do that, i'd make love to you, right now. gary: i promise. i will never die. |
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:23:41 -0700, "MHPNW STAFF"
wrote: A few revisions ago, you stopped having to un-install the pervious drivers before install.... it is probably looking for the origional install location for the drivers...... IE: your CD rom....either burn the new drivers to a disk, or reinstall the original ones, and then update with the new ones....... hope this helps I'll experiment with this. From the Nvidia website Driver Installation Hints page, however, they are still recommending a complete uninstall of the previous drivers. http://www.nvidia.com/object/driver_...ion_hints.html So that's a conundrum. |
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