A few revisions ago, you stopped having to un-install the pervious drivers
before install.... it is probably looking for the origional install
location for the drivers...... IE: your CD rom....either burn the new
drivers to a disk, or reinstall the original ones, and then update with the
new ones....... hope this helps

Dennis


"Jed" wrote in message
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Although experienced in other areas, I'm relatively new to upgrading
graphics drivers and have a question.

I have Windows XP Pro x64 installed on an MSI K8N Neo Platinum 3 with
an Athlon 64 3000+ (Venice core) CPU and an Asus GeForce 6200.

I've downloaded the 77.72 x64 WHQL candidate drivers from the Nvidia
website. I removed the old Nvidia drivers using Add Remove Software,
then attempted to install the new drivers. The driver files are
successfully installed into a C:\Nvidia directory, but when the Nvidia
setup program runs, it fails right after the logo with the error that
it "can't find any drivers compatible with your hardware setup. Setup
will exit."

Tried with an older driver version (71.84) I had downloaded earlier
but hadn't tried to install with the same results.

When I originally installed the Asus 6200 on the cleanly installed x64
system, it would also not install, apparently having a problem with
the setup program Asus used for its drivers, couldn't even copy the
drivers over, so I have just been using the generic Microsoft driver
up till now.

Where have I gone wrong?