Video card driver

[Guest]

hi,

I'm running Windows XP pro on my machine and I was always using a "Radeon
9200, 128" video card untl recently when I changed the card to "Ge Force
5600, 256mb".

I have uninstalled the driver for the previous video card, but when I
install the driver for the new card from the original CD itself, the computer
freezes every time something graphics related is about to run, e.g. when
screensaver comes on, or when I try to play a video, etc.

If I download and install the updated version of the driver from the website
it's even worse, because I'm still faced with the same problem but more
severe, to the point that each time that I even click on the start menue icon
for the driver to possibly change settings, the computer freezes again and
sometimes even restarts itself.

I checked the Nvidia site and read on troubleshooting, it mentions there
that uninstalling video drivers is very difficult and normally some
components of the driver aren't uninstalled and can cause problems when the
new driver has been installed and I'm most likely going to have to reinstall
windows or be forced to completely format my computer!

So, my question is, is there any means of uninstalling and getting rid of
ALL the components of the previous driver?

Or, if I'm forced to reinstall windows, will I loose everything that I have
in my directories, and to stop this from happening am I supposed to move all
wanted folders to C:\?!

I'd appreciate some input and advice on this, thanks.

 

[Haggis]

hi,

I'm running Windows XP pro on my machine and I was always using a "Radeon
9200, 128" video card untl recently when I changed the card to "Ge Force
5600, 256mb".

I have uninstalled the driver for the previous video card, but when I
install the driver for the new card from the original CD itself, the
computer
freezes every time something graphics related is about to run, e.g. when
screensaver comes on, or when I try to play a video, etc.

If I download and install the updated version of the driver from the
website
it's even worse, because I'm still faced with the same problem but more
severe, to the point that each time that I even click on the start menue
icon
for the driver to possibly change settings, the computer freezes again and
sometimes even restarts itself.

I checked the Nvidia site and read on troubleshooting, it mentions there
that uninstalling video drivers is very difficult and normally some
components of the driver aren't uninstalled and can cause problems when
the
new driver has been installed and I'm most likely going to have to
reinstall
windows or be forced to completely format my computer!

So, my question is, is there any means of uninstalling and getting rid of
ALL the components of the previous driver?

Or, if I'm forced to reinstall windows, will I loose everything that I
have
in my directories, and to stop this from happening am I supposed to move
all
wanted folders to C:\?!

I'd appreciate some input and advice on this, thanks.

have you tried booting to safe mode and removing all video drivers ...then
install?