Mistral1 Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 (edited) When trying to uninstall the old Nvidea driver in Vista it asks for a reboot , After I reboot Vista it starts installing the original driver and there apears to be no way to stop this auto install of the original Nvidea driver by the Vista OS ! Any ideas how I can stop it doing this to give me time to load the driver I have downloaded from here ? TIA :) Edited October 21, 2008 by Mistral1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitedragon551 Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 I used Driver Cleaner for this task. They have specific documentation to prevent what your describing from happening. You must follow it in the exact order as the site says. What I did was copied the text and pasted it into notepad and saved it so I could view the steps on my laptop in safe mode while I was performing them. 1. Disconnect the computer from the internet 2. Uninstall driver from Add or Remove Programs 3. Reboot into Safe Mode 4. On reboot into safe mode it is possible that Windows XP or higher will auto detect and install drivers. 5. Navigate to device manager->select the category->uninstall or remove but do not reboot 6. Disable any Antivirus Software 7. Run Driver Cleaner.NET 8. Empty recycle bin and reboot 9. Install the new driver Driver Cleaner The steps I posted are under documentation and instructions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistral1 Posted October 21, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Thanks will try it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitedragon551 Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 Make sure you have the driver before you do it with the .inf in place. It makes the transfer and install much easier than having to wait. Im not sure what GPU you have, but Im using the latest WHQL driver, v178.26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistral1 Posted October 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Make sure you have the driver before you do it with the .inf in place. It makes the transfer and install much easier than having to wait. Im not sure what GPU you have, but Im using the latest WHQL driver, v178.26 Many thanks for taking the time to reply, how would I find the GPU on this HP dv9710ea /7150m ? I'm tearing my hair out with this black screen issue now been at it for 2 weeks and nothing seems to work :) :P :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claw Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 how would I find the GPU on this HP dv9710ea /7150m ? Your GPU is 7150M :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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