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Old 06-17-2006
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Uninstalling Graphic Card Drivers

Ok so I bought a new graphics card and in the instructions it says I have to uninstall my old graphic card driver first. I have been told several times to go to control panel > Add/Remove Programs, and then uninstall my driver. I do this and I see absolutely NOTHING driver-related in this list. Do I have to go to windows componants or should it be in the programs list? If someone could help me out with this I would greatly appreciate it.
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Try this tool.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Driver_Cle...nal_d3214.html
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What kind of card is this? ATI or Nvidia? if the dirver doesnt show in add\remove you can uninstall the driver in device manager. or for a more through removal you can use Driver cleaner Pro, a freeware driver cleaner that works for both ATI and Nvidia cards.

http://www.drivercleaner.net/

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Old 06-17-2006
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Its nothing fancy really I just bought it so I could play Strongold 2, Its a Nvidia G-eforce MX 4000 - 128mb DDR. Im downloading the program Fatsco reccommended currently, I hope it works!
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Ok, I downloaded the program now I need to pick a section to clean. If I pick s3 Savage is that my old graphic cards driver? Also do you think it has more than one?
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Ok, I couldnt figure out how to use the Driver Cleaner so I did it manually through device manager. I power down unplug all cords and put in my new Graphics Card and turn it back on and nothing happens. My monitor wont come on, do you think I should Install the new driver and then put the graphics card in?
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It can't hurt to install the new card and drivers..
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Ok I've tried like...everything. I went to device manager like I said uninstalled the driver, unplugged all cords put in the new card and I plug the monitor into the card and it doesnt work. And when I try to install the new drivers I get a NVIDIA Setup Error that says this "The NVIDIA setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit." I would GREATLY appreciate it if someone could really help me to get this working.
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Was your old Graphics a stand alone card or onboard graphics? if it was onboard you need to disable the onboard video in the bios.

might be a good idea to tell us your hardware spec's. IE motherboard, Ram etc.
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If by onboard you mean it came with my motehrboard then yes, its that. I have a MSI P4MAM2-V motherboard, and two Kingston 512MB RAM sticks. Can you explain to me how I disable the video in BIOS?
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Lol I found the problem, I went to BIOS and my computer was choosing to read the AGP slot rather than my PCI slot. Now I have my monitor plugged into the graphic card but I tried installign the driver from the cd that came with it and I got the same message. Could this driver be out of date? If so could someone provide a driver that will work? It would be much appreciated.
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you can either go to the card makers website and download the drivers or go to Nvidia's web site and download thier reference drivers.
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