Drivers.. Uninstall etc.

[Dharok]

Ok, receiving my GTX tommorrow was wondering the best way of going about removing current drivers and then putting the new ones on. Is it as simple as removing current ones in XP as I would do now with the old card in then shutting down, putting GTX in and installing the new drivers?

I know there's a specific way of going about it as I've seen it posted it before, but I seriously cannot remember.

Didn't want to leave it till last minute as I'm busy enough as it is tommorrow!

Thanks guys and a Merry Christmas to you all,

Dharok.

 

[Dharok]

Any help at all would go appreciated, even if my theory is right!

Thanks again.

 

[dbmzk1]

Is it as simple as removing current ones in XP as I would do now with the old card in then shutting down, putting GTX in and installing the new drivers?

Yep.

Others will tell you a long winded way of doing it using driver cleaner in safe mode, but it's really not needed.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Best to do the proper way, Add/Remove drivers, switch off, swap cards, switch on, boot to safe-mode, run Driver Cleaner to remove registry entries etc... that are still left behind pointing to your old card, restart normal, cancel Found New Hardware Wizard, install new drivers.

 

[willhub]

Yep.

Others will tell you a long winded way of doing it using driver cleaner in safe mode, but it's really not needed.

Depends, its best to do it that way coming from an ATi card to an NV card or the other way around but going from say an old 8800GTS 640 to an 8800GTX all you would need to do is uninstall the drivers, then shut down, swap cards, restart and job done.

 

[londonbairn]

I've never ever done the whole driver cleaner etc thing in all my years on my PCs and laptops. If I change ATI<>Nvidia, then I will Add/Remove their relevant software, but otherwise I just install on top. Never had a problem and I fail to see how it would make any difference since drivers will not magically try and work for a device with no matching ID.

Best to do the proper way, Add/Remove drivers, switch off, swap cards, switch on, boot to safe-mode, run Driver Cleaner to remove registry entries etc... that are still left behind pointing to your old card, restart normal, cancel Found New Hardware Wizard, install new drivers.

You would then use DriverCleaner for any device you remove, be it a USB storage device or a PCI device? It makes no difference if there are still references, Windows is not suddenly going to make a device driver with a Device ID of X work on one with Y...