52.16 driver consider harmful

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.

--
Callas

Many of us have installed the driver without any problems. You did not
mention which operating system you were using so if you are using Windows XP
or Windows ME then try a system restore point prior to the problem in
question. You can initialize a restore point from the safe mode. Generally
speaking drivers do not cause this problem but rather a conflict with a
program running in the background is to blame, ( which interfered with the
installation of the driver).

regards

B
"Callas" wrote in message
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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.

--
Callas

wrote:
Many of us have installed the driver without any problems. You did not
mention which operating system you were using so if you are using Windows XP
or Windows ME then try a system restore point prior to the problem in
question. You can initialize a restore point from the safe mode.

Windows 2000.

After five hours of trying to fix it, I restored from my current norton
ghost image. It took about an hour to do, plus an hour to bring the
installation entirely up to date.

Generally
speaking drivers do not cause this problem but rather a conflict with a
program running in the background is to blame, ( which interfered with the
installation of the driver).

I find this hard to believe. Can you provide a reference to where this
has been proved?

--
Callas

Callas wrote:
wrote:
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Generally
speaking drivers do not cause this problem but rather a conflict
with a program running in the background is to blame, ( which
interfered with the installation of the driver).

I find this hard to believe. Can you provide a reference to where
this
has been proved?

You honestly need a reference? Uhhhh, did you happen to notice the screen
that appears when installing drivers (or just about any software ever
written for windoze) that tells you to shut down all other running programs
before continuing your install??! Did you even bother to turn off your
virus scan as every single set of dets specifically directs you to with its
own alert??!

I wasn't wrong with my suggestion that you should hire a professional when
you need to do any administration of your system. you are obviously
incompetant, - - or maybe just stoned. How long have you been using
windows? Like what? A month?

Takes me 15 min to ghost my 2GB Server 2003 system partition, 5 min to
restore it, from another hard drive in my system.

Updating drivers can break things, nothing new here. If you'd backed up
first you would have not had to worry about restoring from an old image and
waste time on updates.

I've been using ATI cards too, since the original EGA wonder, and I can
tell you, they have their own share of issues. My last attempt was with an
8500 that simply refused to run in any dual-cpu system due to ATI's poor
drivers. Sure, I may try them again, but only because they are the only
ones that have anything like the all-in-wonder cards, not because I think
their drivers are somehow better. Talk to anyone who's using professional
OpenGL apps, and they have a lot of issues with the consumer vid cards from
both Nvidia and ATI for example.


Callas wrote in
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wrote:
Many of us have installed the driver without any problems. You did
not mention which operating system you were using so if you are using
Windows XP or Windows ME then try a system restore point prior to the
problem in question. You can initialize a restore point from the safe
mode.

Windows 2000.

After five hours of trying to fix it, I restored from my current
norton ghost image. It took about an hour to do, plus an hour to
bring the installation entirely up to date.

Generally
speaking drivers do not cause this problem but rather a conflict with
a program running in the background is to blame, ( which interfered
with the installation of the driver).

I find this hard to believe. Can you provide a reference to where
this has been proved?

--
Callas

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.


LOL. Go read. Cat 3.5 and 3.8 have had their own issues. 3.8 is a big
improvement over earlier Cats but there are people who have systems thet
don't like 3.8 just like there are people who have systems that don't like
52.16 Dets. 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.

"i'm_tired" wrote in message
news:VSVmb.28109$9E1.96764@attbi_s52...
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.


snip
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

Billy_Bat wrote:
[snip]

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!

I'd say a valid conclusion we could draw is: "no drivers works on all
machines in this world".

I installed the 52.16 without any uninstallation done in advance (I
usually don't do that anyway). So far everything runs fine.

wrote:
Callas wrote:

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

LOL. Go read. Cat 3.5 and 3.8 have had their own issues. 3.8 is a big
improvement over earlier Cats but there are people who have systems thet
don't like 3.8 just like there are people who have systems that don't like
52.16 Dets.

The point of changing supplier is not to buy a better product, but to
penalise the original supplier for making such a henious mistake.

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?

Read the post - these questions are specifically ansered.

Moreover, answering the event of a driver which breaks Windows with "why
did you need to upgrade your driver anyway?" is *wrong*.

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.

This does not in *any way* justify a driver breaking the system.

--
Callas

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:10:29 GMT, "i'm_tired"
wrote:

Callas wrote:
Installed 52.16 in an attempt to get AA working for Halo Trial.

LOL. Go read. Cat 3.5 and 3.8 have had their own issues. 3.8 is a big
improvement over earlier Cats but there are people who have systems thet
don't like 3.8 just like there are people who have systems that don't like
52.16 Dets. 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?

Er... games come out that require drive patches and as shown, the
52.xx drivers are A LOT faster than the 4x.xx drivers for fx cards.

*I* had to install the 52.16 drivers to get HALO to work correctly to
display the SNIPER SCOPE... otherwise, it DOES NOT WORK.

But the 52.16 drivers are **** in my book.

1 - UT plays a bit worse, its not as SMOOTH as the previous 30.82
drivers *I* was using before. The 45.xx drivers I tired made some
games CRASH OUT.

2 - The visual look in UT (classic) looks worse than before.

3 - My Windows Desktop NOW has visual glitches after playing a game
such as HALO - requireing a REBOOT to fix. Many screen areas are
garbeled...

52.16 drivers... I'm not impressed. These are supposed to be WHQL
drivers?! Bull ****. Which also PROVES how much **** M$ is full of
when it comes to "Signed" drivers.


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