Question about installing new videocard drivers

[Sharpstick68]

I have a Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 card and am wondering, do I have to uninstall the current Nvidia drivers installed on my system before installing new ones? becuase how will the system bring up a display after rebooting from the removal of old drivers when they're are no drivers installed. And also is Version: 61.77 Windows XP/2000 stable drivers?.

[insanekiwi]

yes, unistall them. after a reboot windows wil lrecognize the card as vga device. then install the new drivers and reboot. voila, done.

[Sharpstick68]

so should i download the 61.77 drivers that i want, put them on my computer and windows will recognize them as the new drivers? cause what if it doesnt..

[lnmnky]

What I do...

Download the drivers

Boot into safe mode

Unistall the device from device manager

In add/remove uninstall the drivers

Reboot (normal mode)

(optional step but recommended : run driver cleaner from driver heaven. reboot?)

Run the exe file of the drivers (that you have already dowloaded)

Reboot

Configure resolution etc.

Done

edited for clarity.

[Harry]

Yea, I am also not sure about this, should you reboot after running driver cleaner?

[paulladle]

I've rarely had problems with Nvidia WHQL approved drivers (BETA versions are a different kettle of fish) being installed on top of previous versions (even when swapping Geforce cards) so I no longer bother with the uninstall thing as I've got better things to do with my time.

[Nelsinho]

What I do...

Download the drivers

Boot into safe mode

Unistall the device from device manager

In add/remove uninstall the drivers

Reboot (normal mode)

(optional step but recommended : run driver cleaner from driver heaven. reboot?)

Run the exe file of the drivers (that you have already dowloaded)

Reboot

Configure resolution etc.

Done

edited for clarity.

585221451[/snapback]

yay I also make so, good job very useful instructions for newbies (Y)

[groberts]

I definately would uninstall first.