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Old October 26th 03, 09:49 PM
Billy_Bat
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"i'm_tired" wrote in message
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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.



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Why did you need to upgrade your driver, anyway? Was there a
game you couldn't play with whatever driver it was that you were running
before? Was there some system task that could not be accomplished while
using the drivers that came with your card?

If you are going to swap drivers, there can be consequences. That goes

for
video cards, audio cards, or any sort of system device, for that matter.

If
you are not satisfied when your system is already running OK, and you

choose
to change drivers or tweek settings, then you should be prepared to "waste

a
day" and occasionally "**** your PC up" and maybe even be forced to

"revert
to a backup". If you are not prepared to do that, hire a professional

when
you need to change devices or upgrade drivers or etc.

Wanna be a geek? Seriously, do you want anyone in the world to beleive

you
are competant to do administration of your own system? If so, quit your
whinging. If not, hire someone who is competant.

Often the new drivers bring enhanced operation. Many people say that the
52.16s did so. Many more of us have had many problems after installing them.
I personally never had a problem just installing an Nvidia driver over
another. With the ATI cards in other of my machines, youhad to wipe out
anything that had to do with ATI before installing new drivers. I even did
that with the 52.16s, and still had it go crazy on me, when playing
Battlefield 1942. (this on a clean install of XP, coincidentally)
Good Luck!
BB