Upgrading from XP home to Professional

[Danny]

I am trying to upgrade from home to Professional and I
continue to get a message very early in the upgrade that
I have a driver "NVIDIA Agp Filter' that is incompatible
with XP. There after it knocks me out of the
installation. This is very strange as I have been running
XP on this machine for a year with no problem. I can seem
to find where this driver is sitting so that I may
disconect it. Ay one out there have any ideas

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Using Device Manager, and setting the "show hidden devices" option from the
view menu, you can see the NVIDIA nForce AGP Bus Filter under
"Non-Plug and Play drivers". The original version that was on my PC
was 4.12.01.0217. The driver file is C:\Windows\System32\drivers\nv_agp.sys.

Downloading and installing the latest Platform/nForce Drivers Unified Driver Package
for Windows XP from the NVIDIA web site (www.nvidia.com), places the new driver
in the C:\nvidia\nforceWinXP\2.00\GART directory, but doesn't update it in the Windows
System32 drivers directory. By manually copying the driver from the Nvidia directory,
you'll get past the compatibility problem. The version of the driver that works is 4.12.01.0278.

SOLVED THE PROBLEM THIS WAY:

Go to 'Windows Update'. After running the program, click 'Windows Catalog'
(lower left hand side). Click on the appropriate categories, IE: XP, Drivers, NVIDIA
(you get the point) and download the 'certified' driver.


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I am trying to upgrade from home to Professional and I
| continue to get a message very early in the upgrade that
| I have a driver "NVIDIA Agp Filter' that is incompatible
| with XP. There after it knocks me out of the
| installation. This is very strange as I have been running
| XP on this machine for a year with no problem. I can seem
| to find where this driver is sitting so that I may
| disconect it. Ay one out there have any ideas