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Old October 27th 03, 12:12 AM
The Black Wibble
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Callas wrote:
Installed 52.16 in an attempt to get AA working for Halo Trial.

After reboot, PC freezes up when NVIDIA taskbar icon is clicked on.

Also dialog with message "Catastrophic Failure" presented when
attempting to view GeForce configuration.

I uninstall the driver and try installing again.

This time, PC freezes up a few seconds after booting.

Boot in safe mode, remove driver.

Install old driver version (41.09).

Driver *does not install*. No error given.

After some experimentation, it seems the .inf file has an error "section
missing" when used. The installer appears to silently discard this
error.

After some *hours*, it now appears that no driver can be installed.

I'm pretty much out of ideas, so I'll be reverting to my Norton Ghost
image.

I'm *not* pleased.

Installing the latest video driver should not **** my PC up, waste a day
of my time and require me to revert to a backup.

To make the point, my next video card purchase will be from ATI.


It only takes a minute to restore XP to a state prior to 52.16 screwing
up ~unless~ you have disabled XP's System Restore. XP creates restore
points automatically, so it is just a matter of going to "Start-Help
and Support-Undo changes to your computer with System Restore" and
selecting a suitable restore point.

You're not the only one having problems with 52.16. After playing
around with Dual Display settings, the MSI clock values in Display
Properties became unintelligable and could not be reset even by
reinstalling 44.03. So I chose a restore point where 52.16 was installed
and the MSI Clock dialog was working.

Cheers,
Tony.