i wonder if any can help me, i will try to be precise in describing my prob :
i installed the latest nvidia Detonator drivers for my pc at work for WIN98SE OS (pc has a GeForce4 MX 440) version 45.23 and all works fine and dandy .....
now to save time downloading it again at home i put the driver on a cd, went home and installed it on my machine at home, FORGETTING the fact that MY home pc has XP Pro !!!! the driver installed witohut any probs, apart from the disabled AV message, and promted m to restart ....
pc restarted ok but as soon as the desktop appeared i noticed problems :
Taskbar was BLACK and text could not be read ...
When pressing Start button all menus come black too and are unreadable unless i hover mouse pointer over them ...
certain Taskbar items were corrupted such as the 'blue circle' that hides unused programmes left to the clock.
i tried to 'fix' the prob by going to Themes and changed it to Windows Classic - ALL seemed fine, nothing corrupted, apart from the desktop looking exactly like 98/2000 ... changed it back to Windows XP Theme and all corrupted.
so my next bet was to uninistall drivers and re-install ... same!
next i tried to use System Restore, tried at least 5 restore points going back one at a time and Windows told me it could not be done and nothing was changed...
i tried downloading more different themes for XP, they installed ok and appear in the Themes but are corrupted too when i activate them - so back to Windows Classic ...
then i d/l Detonator Destroyer (says it only for 95/98/Me) - ran it and it said it did not find any nvidia cards ..
i really dont know what to do to get it back ...
options i can try but have no idea what effect they will have are :
try to use the 'repair' function of the Win XP Pro cd ?
try to totally re-install XP Pro ?
manually remove every trace of the nvidia drivers ? (i dont know how anyway!)
help appreciated :blackeye:
my system :
AMD Athlon 2000+
MSI 745 Ultra SiS chip
512 DDR 2700
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 128Mb
WD 80Gb hdd 7200rpm
Creative 5.1 Live Digital
i installed the latest nvidia Detonator drivers for my pc at work for WIN98SE OS (pc has a GeForce4 MX 440) version 45.23 and all works fine and dandy .....
now to save time downloading it again at home i put the driver on a cd, went home and installed it on my machine at home, FORGETTING the fact that MY home pc has XP Pro !!!! the driver installed witohut any probs, apart from the disabled AV message, and promted m to restart ....
pc restarted ok but as soon as the desktop appeared i noticed problems :
Taskbar was BLACK and text could not be read ...
When pressing Start button all menus come black too and are unreadable unless i hover mouse pointer over them ...
certain Taskbar items were corrupted such as the 'blue circle' that hides unused programmes left to the clock.
i tried to 'fix' the prob by going to Themes and changed it to Windows Classic - ALL seemed fine, nothing corrupted, apart from the desktop looking exactly like 98/2000 ... changed it back to Windows XP Theme and all corrupted.
so my next bet was to uninistall drivers and re-install ... same!
next i tried to use System Restore, tried at least 5 restore points going back one at a time and Windows told me it could not be done and nothing was changed...
i tried downloading more different themes for XP, they installed ok and appear in the Themes but are corrupted too when i activate them - so back to Windows Classic ...
then i d/l Detonator Destroyer (says it only for 95/98/Me) - ran it and it said it did not find any nvidia cards ..
i really dont know what to do to get it back ...
options i can try but have no idea what effect they will have are :
try to use the 'repair' function of the Win XP Pro cd ?
try to totally re-install XP Pro ?
manually remove every trace of the nvidia drivers ? (i dont know how anyway!)
help appreciated :blackeye:
my system :
AMD Athlon 2000+
MSI 745 Ultra SiS chip
512 DDR 2700
MSI GeForce4 Ti4200 128Mb
WD 80Gb hdd 7200rpm
Creative 5.1 Live Digital