Nvidia Driver nightmares - Help!

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I have a Packard Bell PC with a Nvidia Geforce4 420 GO onboard graphic
processor. I have
installed Sims 2, which keeps crashing shortly after starting the game. The
Readme file for the game recommends updating the drivers for this card,
which I have tried to do, but it will not work. The system keeps reverting
to the generic Windows XP drivers, even though it says the install of the
new drivers has been successful. Is there any way round this problem? Can
I wipe the existing drivers and set the PC to use the new ones from that
point?

I have tried uninstalling the Nvidia package from Add/Remove Program, device
manager, and from the driver self-install program, but it just reverts to
the generic ones when you reboot, and try and install the new ones. Am I
doing something wrong here???

Help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Ian

 

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After the uninstall, reboot in Safe Mode (F8 at startup) and then install
the new drivers.
--
Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Mr Wiffy" <nospamthanks@spamfree.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Packard Bell PC with a Nvidia Geforce4 420 GO onboard graphic
>processor. I have
> installed Sims 2, which keeps crashing shortly after starting the game.
> The
> Readme file for the game recommends updating the drivers for this card,
> which I have tried to do, but it will not work. The system keeps
> reverting
> to the generic Windows XP drivers, even though it says the install of the
> new drivers has been successful. Is there any way round this problem?
> Can
> I wipe the existing drivers and set the PC to use the new ones from that
> point?
>
> I have tried uninstalling the Nvidia package from Add/Remove Program,
> device manager, and from the driver self-install program, but it just
> reverts to the generic ones when you reboot, and try and install the new
> ones. Am I doing something wrong here???
>
> Help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian
>
>
>
>

 

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"Cari (MS-MVP)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote in message
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> After the uninstall, reboot in Safe Mode (F8 at startup) and then install
> the new drivers.
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
> www.coribright.com


Thanks Cari. I will try that and let you know how I get on.

Many thanks,

Ian

 

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"Cari (MS-MVP)" <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> wrote in message
news:uXtbhzYoEHA.3564@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> After the uninstall, reboot in Safe Mode (F8 at startup) and then install
> the new drivers.
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
> www.coribright.com
>
>

Unfortunately, having installed the new drivers, the problem is still there.
It seems to be something with the Graphics Processor in the Laptop.....Back
to square one.

Thanks for your help anyway.

Ian