WinXP automatically installs my old video drivers!!!!! on reboot.

[JG]

I am trying to install the latest nVidia video drivers on
my WinXP Pro system. Whenever it reboots to complete the
uninstall, it automatically installs the drivers I just
uninstalled!!! I have always been able to manually
install my drivers in Win98SE and Win2000 but not in
WinXP. I am getting error messages (blue screen) and I
have a feeling it's my video card and SBLive sound card
that are conflicting. I updated the SB drivers and can't
seem to do a clean install of my video drivers. When I
installed the latest sound drivers, I got rid of the
IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error but now have a
Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area. I am assuming it's my video
drivers that are causing the problem. Does anyone know
how to stop WinXP from automatically installing the
drivers, so I can properly install the video drivers?
Thanks.

 

[Mike]

Generally, if a driver fails to install, it can be assumed that the driver
is not the right one for the device being used..

 

[Guest]

It's not failing to install. When I uninstall the
drivers and the computer needs to reboot to complete the
uninstall, WinXP automatically installs the drivers
again. I do not have an option where I can tell it to go
to where I want to get the new drivers. After XP
installs its drivers I can install my new drivers but
then that's not a clean install, is it? I don't know why
you can't go to a standard VGA mode like you used to be
able to. Is there a way to go to standard VGA mode in
WinXP (the last time I tried, there wasn't an option for
that).

 

[Quentin David Jones]

No,

Just install the new drivers (from nVidia, not MSU)
over the top of the old ones,
no particular need (or method) to uninstall old ones.

Q.