This all started because I wanted to play Half Life 2 (well Day of Defeat anyway) and I kept getting a blue screen of death hinting that my display driver wasn't up to date enough, while following the Nvidia website's tip for updating it, I've deleted the old driver and now I seem in real trouble, can anyone help?!
2006-12-26 10:01:12 · 8 answers · asked by KidPalmer 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Okay, I'll expose myself as a total cretin here, but here's the complete story. I just got a copy of HalfLife 2. After having installed it, it wouldn't run and the system locking blue screen sugested my graphics driver was out-of-date. I have a NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE and tried the NVIDIA website to get an updated driver. After downloading the new driver, it kept cancelling the set-up saying I had no hardware compatible. There was advice to delete your existing NVIDIA driver so it could install the new one, so I manually removed it (this seems to have been a terrible mistake) now my device manager says it can't find any drivers for my video controller and the NVIDIA download still doesn't work (called Win2KXP 97.44) and I can't do a driver rollback. Does this help clarify my problem at all?
2006-12-26 10:24:11 · update #1
Do you still have the original CD that came with the graphics card? Reinstall the drivers from that, and then download the updated driver (as of 15 Dec 2006) from the following page.
I've a feeling that the driver you downloaded isn't the correct one for your video card. This latest version (apart from a new Beta version) is 93.81 for Windows XP and 2000.
2006-12-26 12:39:17 · answer #1 · answered by micksmixxx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you manually delete the driver or just over write it with the new one .. if you over write it may be you can roll back driver from the device mangaer and the video adapter if you can't then simply log to windows using save mode " i think you do that by keeping pressing "f5 or f8 not shure which" after you start computer and seeing the logo and ram count then you choose save mode .. but this will also lock your internet acces so youmay have to get a copy of your earlir driver "" if the new one don't work"" on a cd from a friend or somthing and install in save mode and restart
2006-12-26 10:16:43 · answer #2 · answered by kyle737 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
Download this software http://drivermagic.com/p/nph-wizard.php and install it. It will recognise the make/model of ur video card and will find the latest driver for it.
Comment back if u need further help.
Hasnain Mir Mohammed
2006-12-26 10:06:29 · answer #3 · answered by Hasnain Mir Mohammed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try system restore, see if that will help.
With the BSoD, it may not be the Graphics driver. Could be another windows component.
Download the drivers again once you have system restored.
2006-12-26 10:04:34 · answer #4 · answered by mattribbins 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Download the following driver from this website:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_93.71.html
That is the correct driver for a GeForce Graphics card. (Your one anyway)
Cheers,
Jake.S
2006-12-26 13:31:27 · answer #5 · answered by Jake S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"seem" in real trouble? if you told us the problem it might help
anyways you should still be able to operate ok in safe mode, and you should be able to install the latest nvidia driver from safe mode too
2006-12-26 10:03:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you may still have old nvidia driver on your comp,look for nvidia folder then run setup from within it.good luck
2006-12-27 04:55:46 · answer #7 · answered by d@dz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can download the most recent nVidia driver (40.6MB) at: http://www.filehippo.com/download_nvidia_forceware/
2006-12-26 10:13:40 · answer #8 · answered by What the...?!? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋