TSGL: Unable to update drivers for nVidia card

[The Computer Whisperer]

perhaps the new drivers put the refresh rate up automatically or maybe they
switch the outputs on the card, is it a dual output card?

Have the drivers been approved by the manufacturer of your card? often
manufacturers will provide "approved" versions.

Try your manufactureres website.

Justin



On 20/01/2008, Tilman Brandl <tbrandl2 at chello.at> wrote:
>
> Bo,
>
> let me add some more to what Don said in his last para - mostly in the
> same
> vein:
>
> <For each new release, bugs are
> corrected and it does make a difference.
> >
>
> A difference, yes. Sometimes unfortunately it's not a difference users do
> appreciate. Depends on whether (1) there are any new quirks built into the
> new release and/or (2) the new driver shows incompatibilities with certain
> hardware / software one uses.
>
> It's not uncommon that people are advised to go back to earlier releases
> for
> drivers ... best to be found out in forums (fora) for that specific piece
> of
> hardware (don't know whether there is one for nVidia). Personally I've
> often
> been told NOT to upgrade graphics drivers unless there are serious
> problems,
> quite common for instance with MS Flight simulator back then, which was
> hard
> to get to run smoothly on many systems ... the update for my nVidia
> drivers
> is still sitting in my 'download' folder, sofar untouched ;-))
>
> Just my 2 cents (euro)
> Tilman
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Bo Maurin
>   To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
>   Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:24 AM
>   Subject: Re: TSGL: Unable to update drivers for nVidia card
>
>
>   Hi Don,
>   The main reason why I want to keep the drivers updated is that I
>   recently play quite a lot of games. For each new release, bugs are
>   corrected and it does make a difference.
>
>   So far, I have not had any problems restoring the PC to the old drivers.
>   I'm just not able to update them
>
>   Regards / Bo
>
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
>   Behalf Of Don Penlington
>   Sent: den 17 januari 2008 17:27
>   To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
>   Subject: Re: TSGL: Unable to update drivers for nVidia card
>
>   Bo wrote:
>   >I updated the GPU drivers about half a year ago without nay problem.
>   >But now, I'm not able to do that anymore. I downloaded the latest
>   >drivers from nVidia homepage,...
>   >After the drivers are installed my screen goes blank.>>
>
>
>   As you are able to boot into Safe Mode, your screen resolution is
>   probably set to a resolution which the new drivers are not able to
>   deliver.
>
>   System Restore should restore the previous screen settings. There should
>   be a Restore Point made when the new drivers were installed.
>
>   Or, much simpler, if you've made registry backups, try a registry
>   restore first from Safe Mode.
>
>   But I'm not clear why you were updating the display drivers in the first
>   place. Were you experiencing any display problems before the update?
>
>   Don Penlington
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