When you uninstall the nVidia drivers, the supplied XP drivers from
Microsoft and the inf file that windows uses to identify the card is removed
with it. You can find a copy of the driver in your
%systemroot%\ServicePackFiles\i386 folder. Look for nv4_disp.inf and
manually install the driver.

You might also have a copy of the original driver in your
%systemroot%\System32\ReisntallBackups\ folders.

Service pack 2 for XP included a stripped down version of 56.73. Drivers
directly from nVidia are generally preferable as they give you more control
of the card including:
- TVout if your card has that
- colour correction and adjustment
- custom resolutions and refresh rates
- openGL ICD
- controls for things like antialiasing
- and much more.

If you didnt like 77.77, then maybe try 71.89 or 66.93, but not older than
61.77.

Sometimes if a newer driver seems slightly slower it is because the card is
doing more and you are getting a better picture. Sometimes the older driver
doesn't enable all of the features and therefore seems slightly faster while
the visual quality suffers.


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Hi,

I've just installed XP SP2 on system with a GeForce 2 400MX AGP card
in it. On the install, XP correctly recognised the card and used it's
own drivers. Later, I tried the latest Nvidia drivers (77.77) and
found them to be a little sluggish in comparison. So, wanting to
return to the original XP ones, I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers via
control panel. On the reboot, XP detected the video card as a "Video
Controller (VGA Compatible)" and *not* as an "NVidia Geforce 2 MX 400"
(which it did on the install).

No matter what I do, I cannot get XP to recognise the card properly
again, nor install any drivers for it. I can however reinstall the
Nvidia ones and it is once again correctly seen as a Geforce 2 MX 400.

Remove them, and I'm back to "vga compatible" !!

I've tried 'sfc /scannow' to restore any critical files, but no joy.

If I tell it to automatically install drivers for it, it says it can't
find any, and likewise if I try manually ("I will choose the driver to
install") once I choose Display Adapters in the category list, it says
"no drivers are available" (or something to that effect).

It's driving me nuts !!!!

PLEASE !!! - Can someone help ? !! I'm presuming that the uninstall
of the Nvidia drivers took something with them that XP uses to
identify the card, but I don't know what !!

Cheers,

Kev.