Hello - When attempting to to install a new video card driver I am faced with a problem that did not exist before. I had a computer tech come to my house when I was experiencing troubles with networking my Vista and XP computer's. He says that he could not have changed anything that would cause this installation issue.
I was updating my nVidia GTX 275 driver and after removing the drivers from programs and rebooting Vista automatically installed a VGA driver. I used to get a message saying that new hardware was found, I then canceled and proceeded with the nVidia driver installation.
As per a couple of forum posts I have read online I have gone into Control Panel\System\Advanced System Settings\Hardware\Windows Update Driver Settings and then selected "ask me each time I connect a new device before checking for drivers." When I select ok I am not able to press "Apply" which remains greyed out.
And I have also changed the settings in Services\Windows Driver Foundation to manual and Vista continues to install the VGA driver automatically.
I was thinking about removing and reinstalling the video card to see if it will be re-recognized which may help with preventing the automatic installation of the VGA driver. And I just read that I may be able to enable PCI and disable onboard graphics in the BIOS, without actually going into the BIOS the settings could not have been changed via the OS could it? I am trying to figure out what happened and made Vista behave this way.
I was able to finally install the nVidia driver after uninstalling the VGA driver in the device manager UI and updated with the proper one. The device manager now registers the GTX 275 with nVidia driver, but what a pain in the you know what this has been.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Robert
I was updating my nVidia GTX 275 driver and after removing the drivers from programs and rebooting Vista automatically installed a VGA driver. I used to get a message saying that new hardware was found, I then canceled and proceeded with the nVidia driver installation.
As per a couple of forum posts I have read online I have gone into Control Panel\System\Advanced System Settings\Hardware\Windows Update Driver Settings and then selected "ask me each time I connect a new device before checking for drivers." When I select ok I am not able to press "Apply" which remains greyed out.
And I have also changed the settings in Services\Windows Driver Foundation to manual and Vista continues to install the VGA driver automatically.
I was thinking about removing and reinstalling the video card to see if it will be re-recognized which may help with preventing the automatic installation of the VGA driver. And I just read that I may be able to enable PCI and disable onboard graphics in the BIOS, without actually going into the BIOS the settings could not have been changed via the OS could it? I am trying to figure out what happened and made Vista behave this way.
I was able to finally install the nVidia driver after uninstalling the VGA driver in the device manager UI and updated with the proper one. The device manager now registers the GTX 275 with nVidia driver, but what a pain in the you know what this has been.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Robert
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Generic IBM PC
- CPU
- Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo OC @ 4 GHz
- Motherboard
- Asus P5Q
- Memory
- 4GB OCZ PC2-6400 DDR2 ReaperX 1066 MH
- Graphics Card(s)
- Evga GTX 275 896Mb DDR3
- Sound Card
- On board
- Monitor(s) Displays
- LG 2600H
- PSU
- OCZ Extreme 700w
- Cooling
- CoolerMaster Hyper TX3
