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    cannot uninstall video driver

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Pwnstar, Jun 17, 2008.

  1. Pwnstar

    Pwnstar Notebook Consultant

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    I've never stopped having problems with the 8600GT video card. First of all, everytime I try to download the drivers off the site and use the setup, the installation never goes through because it says "The NVIDIA Setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware. Setup will now exit." I'm not sure what to do.... and now I can't even uninstall the drivers. It just says its going to uninstall (from device manager) but nothing happens and it's still there on the device manager. Can someone please help?
     
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    1) make sure DELL installed the card you actually ordered ;)
     
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    Meaning what?
     
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    I assume you're getting this error msg because you are trying to install drivers other than those found on Dell's site, ie: laptopvideo2go? If so, then you need to download the modded Inf file also, for it to be able to install properly.
     
    jfdube, Jun 17, 2008
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