162.22 causing........................

MB P5N32-E SLI Plus. Graphics EN8500 GT Silent.
OK, bought a second EN8500 GT Silent and installed it connected the
umbilical and set the nVidia control panel to 2 cards.
Made no difference at all. Neither to my Vista rating neither visually to
the 3d turning gadget on the nVidia page.
On top of that, using the latest 162.62 driver the screen would go black
then show recovered from graphic driver blah blah blah; and all would be
fine till next time.
Have removed the second card and all is OK.
Now, there is a new beta driver 163.11. I tried to install
that one and guess what? It stops and says that I am not running Vista 32bit
and will now close.
Then I can't install 162.22 again, it hangs. The only way forward (LOL) is
to go back via System Restore.
Any comments (kind, constructive ones please)?


--
John the West Ham fan

housetrained wrote:
MB P5N32-E SLI Plus. Graphics EN8500 GT Silent.
OK, bought a second EN8500 GT Silent and installed it connected the
umbilical and set the nVidia control panel to 2 cards.
Made no difference at all. Neither to my Vista rating neither visually to
the 3d turning gadget on the nVidia page.
On top of that, using the latest 162.62 driver the screen would go black
then show recovered from graphic driver blah blah blah; and all would be
fine till next time.
Have removed the second card and all is OK.
Now, there is a new beta driver 163.11. I tried to install
that one and guess what? It stops and says that I am not running Vista
32bit
and will now close.
Then I can't install 162.22 again, it hangs. The only way forward (LOL) is
to go back via System Restore.
Any comments (kind, constructive ones please)?



Did you uninstall the drivers *before* installing the card? You should.

You should also uninstall drivers before installing updated ones. (as
per nVidia's website)

--
"Outback" Jon - KC2BNE

AMD Opteron 146 ) and 6.1 GHz of other AMD power...
http://folding.stanford.edu - got folding? Team 48435

2006 ZG1000A Concours "Blueline" COG# 7385 CDA# 0157
1980 CB750F SuperSport "CoolerKing"

Yes I did.
The first time I uninstalled the nVidia drivers the screen went blank
because there were no other drivers installed. I had to boot via the vista
disc and use system restore. Then I installed the basic VGA driver, then I
went to install the 162.22 and it stuck halfway. Then I tried the 163.11 -
it too stuck. So I had to use System restore to get back to as I was before,
before. If you know what I mean.

--
John the West Ham fan



"Outback Jon" wrote in message
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housetrained wrote:
MB P5N32-E SLI Plus. Graphics EN8500 GT Silent.
OK, bought a second EN8500 GT Silent and installed it connected the
umbilical and set the nVidia control panel to 2 cards.
Made no difference at all. Neither to my Vista rating neither visually to
the 3d turning gadget on the nVidia page.
On top of that, using the latest 162.62 driver the screen would go black
then show recovered from graphic driver blah blah blah; and all would be
fine till next time.
Have removed the second card and all is OK.
Now, there is a new beta driver 163.11. I tried to install
that one and guess what? It stops and says that I am not running Vista
32bit
and will now close.
Then I can't install 162.22 again, it hangs. The only way forward (LOL)
is
to go back via System Restore.
Any comments (kind, constructive ones please)?



Did you uninstall the drivers *before* installing the card? You should.

You should also uninstall drivers before installing updated ones. (as per
nVidia's website)

--
"Outback" Jon - KC2BNE

AMD Opteron 146 ) and 6.1 GHz of other AMD power...
http://folding.stanford.edu - got folding? Team 48435

2006 ZG1000A Concours "Blueline" COG# 7385 CDA# 0157
1980 CB750F SuperSport "CoolerKing"