johnwillyums

Thanks Shawn. I'm not precious about Winamp so I might try that but I fear the worst.
Whilst my card was being "tested" by Overclockers.co.uk-they played Crysis in 32 bit Vista apparently- I put my old 8600GT back in. That runs on the 169.25 drivers as well and was fine in both Winamp and games and has been since I got the pc 6 months ago.
Also, I've done a clean install on a brand new drive and installed SP1 which was supposed to be the answer to all ills.
I cannot understand why I'm not able to install the 174.44 drivers (see my earlier post)
I'm at work now but I'll give it some further testing in games later on but the driver issue is weird and the Winamp problem was occurring when the card was crashing in games.
In fact, apart ftom SP1, I'm in exactly the same setup as before so I'm pessimistic.
Cheers, John