[CTS] Re: Removing vidoe card drivers..
- From: Hal Brown <hdbrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:04:02 -0400
I wouldn't advise removing *any drivers until I had the new card installed.
Just remove the old card, install the new card and reboot. Install the new
card drivers When Windows finds the card.
You don't actually see drivers anyway; you see the devices they work with. If
you want to see the old card after you install the new one do this.
You have to be admiistrator. From the Control Panel open System Properties. Go
to the Advanced tab. Under Startup and Recovery open Enviornmental Variables
and in the top pane click New. In the resulting dialog box type
DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES. Give it value of 1. Close everything.
Now, when you open Device Manager click on View/Show Hidden Devices and it
will show all devices, even ones that have been removed. Then you simply
right click the old card and uninstall it.
Hal
On 07/26/2005 03:34 pm, Kim Miller wrote to say:
> I have a Compaq Presario model 7110US with the original 64MB SDR nVIDIA
> GeForce2 MX with TV-Out AGP graphic card the AGP slot. I want to get a
> new video card for it & I know I have to remove the old video card
> drivers first.
>
> The problem is that the video card drivers DO NOT appear under the
> ADD/REMOVE programs list in Windows XP. So how does one remove the old
> video card drivers if they are not listed?
>
> Thanks.
--
Hal Brown
~~
Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will
not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -- Benjamin Franklin
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