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Now, to properly - fully - uninstall the old drivers and reinstall the new drivers.
<ul type="square">1. Navigate to the the Programs window: (Start -> Computer -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features)
2. Find the "Nvidia Drivers" listed in the list.
3. Click "Uninstall/Change" near the top of the list. Uninstall your video drivers only, if the option comes up. (The other board drivers are not to blame.) Let it do its thing.
4. Reboot when prompted. As it is rebooting, begin step #5.
5. While the PC is rebooting, before it brings up the first windows splash screen, begin tapping continually on the F8 key. (If it boots into regular windows, simply try again.) This should bring up the "Windows Advanced Options Menu", a black and white "dos" style menu. Use your arrow keys to move to "Safe Mode" and press your Enter key.Once the PC is booted successfully into safe mode...
6. Navigate on your hard drive to where you saved the Driver Sweeper utility to. Run Driver Sweeper and select the Nvidia Display drivers. Clean "sweep" them. Once that is complete...
7. Reboot, again, this time not hitting F8, going back into "regular" Windows Vista.
8. Navigate on your hard drive to where you saved the new drivers to and install them, following any prompts they include.
9. Reboot when prompted.[/list]
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I Use a 64 bit version of Vista and have a EVGA NVIDIA 9800 GTX+.
I've been reading the first 4 or so pages of this forum and it seems to be a great help, so I'm going to attempt to fix my crashing problems.
I followed setp 1. Haven't tried to play since I downloaded the Hotfix.
I read you saying something about a Hotfix version 2...which is that? I used the x64 one found on the first post (Under 32 bit listing). I used IE and it said that it was dowloading for x64. So everythign should be in check there.
But...Whers version 2 o.O
Also...Before I screw up and uninstall the wrong part of my video driver *If I need to* to roll back my drivers...Which do I uninstall
When I go to controll panel/ Programs and Features/ NVIDIA Drivers... I get a pop up that has 3 options:
Remove all NVIDIA Drivers, including display
Remove all NVIDIA Drivers, except display
Remove only the following (Can select each one):
--NVIDIA Display Driver
--NVIDIA Ethernet Driver Components
--NVIDIA Media Shield
--NVIDIA nForce PCI System Managment Driver
Going to test out just the first version of the hotfix, then second version, then roll back drivers
But when it comes time to roll back drivers *Hopefully I wont need to because ocasionally I like to get on COD5*..I wanna make sure I choose the correct option
Thanks guys!
-Nc
