M1330 Nvidia drivers BSOD

Hi guys, I'm getting a bsod and restart every time I boot vista because I tried to update the nvidia drivers. Now I am not able to boot in safe mode or anything to fix it.

I had the nvidia drivers from the dell website, and I decided to install the 169. something from laptopvideo2go. I read somewhere that it is recommended to uninstall the previous version before installing the new one, and so I did.

I uninstalled the dell drivers and was asked to restart, I restarted and there you go BSOD. The problem is that it is restarting right after the bsod and I'm not able to see the text, but it must be the geforce.

Tried with a restore point, nothing; tried with the vista install dvd to repair it, nothing; safe mode, doesnt work neither...

What is strange is that I managed to boot in safe mode two times, suddenly. On the first one, I I tried to install the laptopvideo2go drivers but it said that my graphics card wasnt found in the drivers list, and I rebooted. After some bsods more I got to safe mode again, and I installed the dell drivers that were working before I messed everything, they installed and asked to reboot. Again, bsod

Now I'm stuck and dont know what to do except reinstalling vista, but if any of you have any suggestions, they would be much appreciated

Thanks

 

Press F8 during boot to get the advanced options menu where you can then select to "Disable automatic reboot on system failure" or something to that effect. This will allow you to read the BSOD and get the error code to see what it is.

 

I've done it and now I can see the error but its a 0x0000000 error without no file or something like that =S

Is there any way to install the drivers without entering vista? any third party software?

 

Wow. I'm amazed to hear that you BSOD in SAFE mode, which doesn't load any 3rd party graphics drivers...! At least this is the case with XP (and 2000 and 98...).

It sounds to me like something was changed at the HW level - example, GPU core, shader or memory speed. If the speeds were were out of spec, then it is concievable that this might be the cause of your problems (although I'm really reaching, here).

An other possiblity is that the 169.xx drivers were not entirely uninstalled and might be causing problems when you went to reinstall the original Dell drivers. If you do manage to get in via SAFE mode, check that the drivers were indeed uninstalled and also manually delete any nv*.* files you find under Windows directory. To be safe, you can always move them to a temp file instead of deleting them. Ditto for the registry: look up nVidia Corporation keys and rename them.

Otherwise, your best bet is to seek help over at laptopvideo2go's own forums as such a problem is rarely limited to a specific Notebook manufacturer. Most (if not all) Notebooks with "advanced" graphics solutions are none the less onboard solutions and so the problem could happen just as easily with a Sony Notebook too.

Last but not least, have a look at RivaTuner's (Guru 3D's) site. I could be wrong, but I thought I read that the utility would run even without "proper" drivers and maybe you could at least check the speeds (that's of course assuming you can get into your OS in SAFE mode at least).

Good luck to you - we all know how very unhappy you must be right now, not even being able to boot into the system