Installing new video card

[Patty]

I'm planning on installing a GeForce 6200 card in my XP system. The
instructions with the card explain to remove the current video drivers
(which are also Nvidia in my system) by setting the Display in Device
Manager to Standard VGA. This is not an option in Windows XP. I only get
choices of other Nvidia drivers to update the driver to.

Should I just remove the Display adapter in Device Manger, shut down the
system, remove the old Nvidia card and install the new one and then reboot?

Thanks!

Patty

 

[Jim]

Peppermint?

 

[Alias]

I'm planning on installing a GeForce 6200 card in my XP system. The
instructions with the card explain to remove the current video drivers
(which are also Nvidia in my system) by setting the Display in Device
Manager to Standard VGA. This is not an option in Windows XP. I only get
choices of other Nvidia drivers to update the driver to.

Should I just remove the Display adapter in Device Manger, shut down the
system, remove the old Nvidia card and install the new one and then reboot?

Thanks!

Patty

Uninstall the driver in Device Manager. Also look at Add/Remove and see
if there is anything nVidia there as well as in Program Files and
Start/All Programs. Then turn the computer off, replace the video card,
reboot and install the drivers from the CD.

Alias

 

[Alias]

Peppermint?
A$$hole?

Alias

 

[Jim]

Why? Do you smell one near by? Must be you.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Now why couldn't you have said that in the first place?

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[Patty]

Uninstall the driver in Device Manager. Also look at Add/Remove and see
if there is anything nVidia there as well as in Program Files and
Start/All Programs. Then turn the computer off, replace the video card,
reboot and install the drivers from the CD.

Alias

I do have an NForce2 chipset on my motherboard so I have Nvidia drivers I
must keep. I looked in Add/Remove programs at the Nvidia drivers and I do
get a list of which ones to uninstall. I'm thinking only the Display one
would be the one I need to uninstall perhaps?

Thanks!

Patty

 

[ChrisC]

Hi, it's sad really, someone posts up a legimate query only to have a couple
of children hijack it...
ChrisC

 

[Alias]

Now why couldn't you have said that in the first place?

It was my first reply to the OP.

Alias

 

[Alias]

I do have an NForce2 chipset on my motherboard so I have Nvidia drivers I
must keep. I looked in Add/Remove programs at the Nvidia drivers and I do
get a list of which ones to uninstall. I'm thinking only the Display one
would be the one I need to uninstall perhaps?

Thanks!

Patty

Sounds right to me.

Alias

 

[Bob Knowlden]

To bypass the chaff in the thread:

Use the add/remove programs control panel. As you say you have an nVidia
chipset, remove only the display drivers.

I believe that XP will insist on rebooting the PC after that. When it comes
up, don't permit XP to look for drivers. Power down. Swap cards. Start up.
Re-install the graphics card drivers.

If you really want to be comprehensive, you could use Driver Cleaner Pro to
remove any files that the uninstaller leaves behind:

http://www.drivercleaner.net/professional.html

It's probably unnecessary, but it is freeware.


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[Patty]

To bypass the chaff in the thread:

Use the add/remove programs control panel. As you say you have an nVidia
chipset, remove only the display drivers.

I believe that XP will insist on rebooting the PC after that. When it comes
up, don't permit XP to look for drivers. Power down. Swap cards. Start up.
Re-install the graphics card drivers.

If you really want to be comprehensive, you could use Driver Cleaner Pro to
remove any files that the uninstaller leaves behind:

http://www.drivercleaner.net/professional.html

It's probably unnecessary, but it is freeware.


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

I installed the new card. First, I removed the Display driver from
Add/Remove Programs, then uninstalled the old Display adapter from Device
Manager. When XP wanted to reboot, I told it "No" and then just shut the
system down. Took out the old card, put in the new. Rebooted, installed
the new drivers, reset my video settings (refresh, resolution, etc.) and it
worked like a charm. So, good so far. Up and running.

Thanks everyone for all for the suggestions, it was much appreciated.

Patty

 

[Roy Coorne]

Patty wrote:
....

I installed the new card. First, I removed the Display driver from
Add/Remove Programs, then uninstalled the old Display adapter from Device
Manager. When XP wanted to reboot, I told it "No" and then just shut the
system down. Took out the old card, put in the new. Rebooted, installed
the new drivers, reset my video settings (refresh, resolution, etc.) and it
worked like a charm. So, good so far. Up and running.

....

That's exactly my way of installing a new video card - with one small
modification: When I boot with the new card installed, I go into 'VGA'
mode and install the new driver, then reboot...

Up, up, and away... [long ago]


Roy

 

[Patty]

Patty wrote:
...

I installed the new card. First, I removed the Display driver from
Add/Remove Programs, then uninstalled the old Display adapter from Device
Manager. When XP wanted to reboot, I told it "No" and then just shut the
system down. Took out the old card, put in the new. Rebooted, installed
the new drivers, reset my video settings (refresh, resolution, etc.) and it
worked like a charm. So, good so far. Up and running.

...

That's exactly my way of installing a new video card - with one small
modification: When I boot with the new card installed, I go into 'VGA'
mode and install the new driver, then reboot...

Up, up, and away... [long ago]


Roy

How does one go into 'VGA' mode?

Patty

 

[Roy Coorne]

Patty wrote:
...

I installed the new card. First, I removed the Display driver from
Add/Remove Programs, then uninstalled the old Display adapter from Device
Manager. When XP wanted to reboot, I told it "No" and then just shut the
system down. Took out the old card, put in the new. Rebooted, installed
the new drivers, reset my video settings (refresh, resolution, etc.) and it
worked like a charm. So, good so far. Up and running.

...

That's exactly my way of installing a new video card - with one small
modification: When I boot with the new card installed, I go into 'VGA'
mode and install the new driver, then reboot...

Up, up, and away... [long ago]


Roy

How does one go into 'VGA' mode?

The same way as if you were to go into Safe Mode:

Press [F8] immediately after starting the PC and, in the forthcoming
menu, select 'VGA mode'.


Roy