I recently upgraded the video driver using the "Automatically find my driver" function on nVidia's website. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to agree with my 7950GX2. After installation, windows loads, but only the mouse cursor is visible, although I can still interact with the things I can't see. For some reason, no restore point was set by vista before the driver update, so I can't roll back. I know it's the drivers because I did the same exact thing with a separate Vista partition on the same computer and was able to roll it back. What I'm wondering is how can I go through the command prompt (which is the only thing I can get to show up even in safe mode) and delete the corrupt drivers and get my main windows installation back?
If things are still screwed-up in safemode, it might not be a driver issue as windows isn't supposed to load graphic drivers in safe mode.
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Reply to Zenthar
yeah, seems a little weird all you can get in safe mode is the command prompt. You should see all your programs, (from the start menu) although a lot of them may be unusable.
If you are unable to do anything in safe mode, you may have a broken installation.
Thanks for all the replies. I'm just gonna stick with the working partition for now. I can still access all my old files, so it's fine with me. Pity I can't update the graphics drivers though. That worries me.
ive tried it all buzznut. I've been through at least the last 5 drivers and had it happen with all of them no matter how I navigated to it on the website.
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