Window Update prompting to "update" to older drivers.

[Chris]

A few days ago I visited the NVDIA web site and updated my TNT2 graphics
card drivers to the latest version.
Version: 53.03 Release Date: December 9, 2003

Since then, the Windows update site is prompting me to "update" the
drivers to: NVIDIA display software update released on October 06 2003

(It does not say what version, but the date is older so I presume it is an
older version).

Why?

Chris.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Chris,

Installing the manufacturer's driver set does not update the files that
WindowsUpdate uses to determine if an updated driver applies to a given
system, so it has no way of knowing that a newer one is installed. As long
as you know that the driver is updated, then ignore the one posted on the
update site.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[FrankV]

And at some point the message will stop. I've had this a few time now also
with NVIDIA. I assume what happened was Windows eventually updated and then
agreed with what you have.

Frank

 

[Chris]

Hi Chris,

Installing the manufacturer's driver set does not update the files that
WindowsUpdate uses to determine if an updated driver applies to a given
system, so it has no way of knowing that a newer one is installed. As
long
as you know that the driver is updated, then ignore the one posted on
the
update site.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

Ok, thanks for that info.

So if WindowsUpdate does not know I have manually installed later drivers
(fair enough), why is it now prompting me to "update" to older ones?

It was not prompting me to update before I manually updated the drivers,
so it must be able to detect that the drivers I now have do not correspond
to what WindowsUpdate considers to be the latest version (does that make
sense...)

I will just ignore it, but I was (still am) curious to know why it could
recognise the drivers were not what it expected, but could not recognise
that they were later versions than what it expected.

Something screwy there somewhere...

Chris.

 

[Alex Nichol]

A few days ago I visited the NVDIA web site and updated my TNT2 graphics
card drivers to the latest version.
Version: 53.03 Release Date: December 9, 2003

Since then, the Windows update site is prompting me to "update" the
drivers to: NVIDIA display software update released on October 06 2003

The Update site is inclined to consider only versions of drivers that
have been formally tested in MSoft labs and 'signed'. It will try to
offer the latest signed ones it has, over much later ones from the
makers. In the case of Video especially I would not take driver
upgrades from Windows Update - always go to the maker's own site for the
ones *they* consider to be the best current ones for your card

 

[Parish]

It was not prompting me to update before I manually updated the drivers,
so it must be able to detect that the drivers I now have do not correspond
to what WindowsUpdate considers to be the latest version (does that make
sense...)

Don't take the term "update" literally. Windows Update is simply seeing
that the files installed are different to the ones it has.

 

[Incognitus]

The Update site is inclined to consider only versions of drivers that
have been formally tested in MSoft labs and 'signed'. It will try to
offer the latest signed ones it has, over much later ones from the
makers. In the case of Video especially I would not take driver
upgrades from Windows Update - always go to the maker's own site for the
ones *they* consider to be the best current ones for your card

The problem with that theory is, that the installed Nvidia drivers HAVE been
'signed' and are version 5.3.0.3 11/17/2003, while the ones on the update
site are an earlier version and date.