Changing Detonators?

Hi, I am planning to test some detonators drivers (different versions). How do I install/Uninstall or just overinstall? Thanks, Brian

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> Hi, > > I am planning to test some detonators drivers (different versions). How do I > install/Uninstall or just overinstall? > > Thanks, > > Brian

Go into your display properties and set your video card to "Standard VGA." Reboot. Once the computer is running under the Standard VGA driver, install the new Detonator drivers. Reboot again. Voila -- new drivers. -- ______________________ Todd Walker http://twalker.d2g.com Canon Pro90IS ______________________

Here is my typical routine. 1) Download and unzip the driver you want to install to a folder on your hard drive. Myself I do it to C:\nvidia\xxxx were xxx equals the driver number without any ".". The folder names don't really matter, but its a nice way to keep track of which folder is what driver version. 2) Reset your video card to run the standard VGA drivers and restart the computer. It may want to reinstall drivers during the restart just hit cancel and finish loading windows. 3) From add remove programs uninstall the current Nvidia drivers 4) Search the windows system folder for files named nv*.*. This should bring up the nvidia driver files. You may need to use some common sense here. If you unsure of what files to delete just compare the found files to the files in your driver sub folder to make sure they match names. I only get driver files with that search, but your system and software may vary. 5) restart computer and this time when it wants to install the video card point it to the location of the driver you want to try. If your system doesn't try to install new hardware on the reboot just use the update driver in the device manager and point that to the driver sub folder. Usually if your going from older to newer you won't have problems. The problems usually come when trying to go backward in driver revisions. Also get yourself a tweak program like Nvmax or Geforce Tweak and make sure that all options are set the same before you do any comparisons. Alot of the time the drivers will have different default values and that can give you some bogus scores when benchmarking. MadDAWG

Thanks a lot. Brian "MadDAWG" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Here is my typical routine. > > 1) Download and unzip the driver you want to install to a folder on your > hard drive. Myself I do it to C:\nvidia\xxxx were xxx equals the driver > number without any ".". The folder names don't really matter, but its anice

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> way to keep track of which folder is what driver version. > > 2) Reset your video card to run the standard VGA drivers and restart the > computer. It may want to reinstall drivers during the restart just hit > cancel and finish loading windows. > > 3) From add remove programs uninstall the current Nvidia drivers > > 4) Search the windows system folder for files named nv*.*. This should

bring > up the nvidia driver files. You may need to use some common sense here. If > you unsure of what files to delete just compare the found files to thefiles > in your driver sub folder to make sure they match names. I only get driver > files with that search, but your system and software may vary. > > 5) restart computer and this time when it wants to install the video card > point it to the location of the driver you want to try. If your system > doesn't try to install new hardware on the reboot just use the updatedriver > in the device manager and point that to the driver sub folder. > > > Usually if your going from older to newer you won't have problems. The > problems usually come when trying to go backward in driver revisions. Also > get yourself a tweak program like Nvmax or Geforce Tweak and make surethat > all options are set the same before you do any comparisons. Alot of thetime > the drivers will have different default values and that can give you some > bogus scores when benchmarking. > > MadDAWG > >

Anytime MadDAWG

http://www.guru3d.com/guide/detonator-install-guide/ "MadDAWG" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > Anytime > > MadDAWG > >