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    Asus Live Updater messed up my computer.

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Bern80, Jan 9, 2011.

  1. Bern80

    Bern80 Newbie

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    Don't know if anyone is familiar with the Asus Live Updater but it prompted me to update to
    nVidia Graphics Driver to V8.17.12.6114. Upon doing so it prompted me to restart my computer. When it restarted my resolution was screwed up. It had definately gone down from what it was before. The Live Updater came on again to unpack the driver and the DOS prompt window came up with a bunch of stuff I really didn't understand. I have looked everywhere I can think to on the computer and nothing in the hardware or component specs indicates I have an nVidia card in the computer.

    I have lot's of questions now I'm hoping someone can help with.

    1) How do I get my laptop back to the way it was? (This is a G73Jw with Geforce GTX 460M)?

    2) Do I really need the ASUS Live Updater? If this is what it's going to do to my PC I'd rather just get rid of it and get driver updates straight from nVidia?

    3) I tried downloading a couple of old nVidia drivers for my card. When the driver installed looks for compatible hardware it says it can't find it. I notice the driver version # on the nVidia site is different than the version # the ASUS Live Updater says it is downloading. Why is that?

    Any help will be greatly appreciated.
     
    Bern80, Jan 9, 2011
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  2. frosty5689

    frosty5689 Notebook Evangelist

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    Try to do a system restore if you can. Also, uninstall the updater, it does more harm than help.
     
    frosty5689, Jan 10, 2011
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  3. Bern80

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    Done and done. thanks. that thing was a pain in the tookus for me.
     
    Bern80, Jan 10, 2011
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