I'm having problems installing drivers for my stepped up EVGA Ultras. I'll try to make this as short as possible - it's kinda a long story.
When I shipped my GTXes to step up to the Ultras, I uninstalled the drivers for the GTXes and installed two 320MB GTS'. I planned to use the GTS' as a temporary replacement. As far as the GTS drivers, everything went well (had problems w/ the 680i BIOS, but that's another, resolved story).
I received the Ultras Tuesday and successfully installed the hardware using the 169.75 nVidia drivers released this month. When benchmarking, the Ultras performed horribly - 2,000 points below the GTXes in 3DMark06. *thatguy16 laughing*
Due to the poor benchmarking performance, I thought that it would be appropriate to install a previous driver version. I think I uninstalled the 169.75 drivers incorrectly. I'm not sure. I thought that a previous driver version would peform better than the most recent drivers.
From that point, I've had serious problems. As Vista users know, Vista will attempt to install drivers for hardware it doesn't recognize. Normally, that's good. In my situation, however, I don't believe Vista uninstalled the 169.75 drivers correctly, and the OS is attempting to install the new, or previous driver version on top of another driver version. This is leading to IRQL_LESS_THAN_OR_NOT_EQUAL_TO BSoDs. I cannot even boot into my OS in Safe Mode. When I try, I get A BSoD.
I tried reinstalling WinD'ohs. It reinstalled, but it sucks. I've so many games/applications to reinstall, I restored the computer back to Nov. 7th because it's a pain to reconfigure my router and network settings, for example.
^ All that stuff above is written to give everyone a general history of my problem(s).
This is what I would like to do: Install the Ultra drivers without having to reinstall Windows. As I said, I reinstalled the OS, but I became very impatient w/ reinstalling all my programs/configurations/apps.
Is it possible to fix this problem without a Windows reinstall. I called Microsoft and EVGA - they didn't really help. I'd like to use the command prompt to uninstall the current nVidia drivers. Is that possible?? That process would give me a "clean slate" to work w/ when installing the Ultra drivers. As I said, I cannot boot into Windows without a blue screen.
Thank You, CF!
-Michael
When I shipped my GTXes to step up to the Ultras, I uninstalled the drivers for the GTXes and installed two 320MB GTS'. I planned to use the GTS' as a temporary replacement. As far as the GTS drivers, everything went well (had problems w/ the 680i BIOS, but that's another, resolved story).
I received the Ultras Tuesday and successfully installed the hardware using the 169.75 nVidia drivers released this month. When benchmarking, the Ultras performed horribly - 2,000 points below the GTXes in 3DMark06. *thatguy16 laughing*
Due to the poor benchmarking performance, I thought that it would be appropriate to install a previous driver version. I think I uninstalled the 169.75 drivers incorrectly. I'm not sure. I thought that a previous driver version would peform better than the most recent drivers.
From that point, I've had serious problems. As Vista users know, Vista will attempt to install drivers for hardware it doesn't recognize. Normally, that's good. In my situation, however, I don't believe Vista uninstalled the 169.75 drivers correctly, and the OS is attempting to install the new, or previous driver version on top of another driver version. This is leading to IRQL_LESS_THAN_OR_NOT_EQUAL_TO BSoDs. I cannot even boot into my OS in Safe Mode. When I try, I get A BSoD.
I tried reinstalling WinD'ohs. It reinstalled, but it sucks. I've so many games/applications to reinstall, I restored the computer back to Nov. 7th because it's a pain to reconfigure my router and network settings, for example.
^ All that stuff above is written to give everyone a general history of my problem(s).
This is what I would like to do: Install the Ultra drivers without having to reinstall Windows. As I said, I reinstalled the OS, but I became very impatient w/ reinstalling all my programs/configurations/apps.
Is it possible to fix this problem without a Windows reinstall. I called Microsoft and EVGA - they didn't really help. I'd like to use the command prompt to uninstall the current nVidia drivers. Is that possible?? That process would give me a "clean slate" to work w/ when installing the Ultra drivers. As I said, I cannot boot into Windows without a blue screen.
Thank You, CF!
-Michael
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