driver nightmares !!

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Nightmare !!! Needed to do a reinstall on sons machine which was working
perfectly after demo of myst seemed to be possibly causeing stability
problems after its uninstall and full registry clean up with regards to
myst. Perfect new install of windows all devices detected except card which
is idenitified as VGA compatible as usual giving usual quality screen in all
resolutions despite no monitor showing in device manager or a "specific
card". Soon as I load any driver whether generic nvidia or manufacturer all
of which appears to install perfectly you can see the vga cp,patble and
exclamamtion mark change to the correctly identified card before asking i
tried drivers from 44's 50's 60 series. Reboots as required after install
goes through partial boot windows logo is seen in beautiful resolution then
you hear several clicks and monitor goes into either standby possibly being
overdriven refresh rate or power save with on light flashing reboot it just
does the same. Uninstall driver it goes back to vga save mode as a "non
recognised" card but all resolutions available which makes me think its not
the card monitor works perfect on my fx at all resolutions 8 new reinstalls
and outcome is always the same. also tried clean install followed by sp2 as
soon as it rebooted loading a default Microsoft driver believe it was a 56
series it bombs out still can going into safe mode and shows driver loaded
and at the same time it recognises the monitor and installs it. Tried
differnt monitor still same problem could it be that by not detecting a
monitor initially its overdriving itself please help someone must have had
this problem thanks in advance
 
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Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia (More info?)

Did you reinstall your motherboard drivers? It's possible that the generic
ones that ship with Windows (you didn't say what version of Windows you are
running) don't allow you to install the nVidia drivers. This is especially
true with older versions of Windows (95, 98, ME, NT) that did not include
the required motherboard drivers unless it was an OEM customised version.

Dan