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    A little help installing an old-school driver..

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by kisetsu17, May 1, 2009.

  1. kisetsu17

    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    Yeah, so I was trying to install 169.04 drivers and until now I can't seem to be able to do so.. I keep getting the error in Device Manager which says the driver can't be loaded.. I know the driver is compatible with my card, using modded inf's from LV2G, and also I stumbled through several threads that say they installed 169.04 and they have the same card as mine. So...any insights about this? I modded the modded inf's to include my card in its *proper* name, so....what do you think is the problem?
     
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    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    have you run driver sweeper in safe mode first. if not try that as there could be some files of your old driver still on there.
     
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    kisetsu17 Took me long enough

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    Well, it installs easier now (with the setup.exe file, before I was using the have disk method since the "older driver" prompt keeps popping up) but it still doesn't work.. Still has that error code 43 in the Device Manager, saying that Windows has stopped the device because it reported problems or something.. What's up with that?
     
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    UPDATE:

    I tried uninstalling PhysX and cleaning them out too, but it still doesn't work, when I install and reboot 169.04 drivers, it's like I'm using standard VGA drivers, and an error comes up where it says rundll32.exe has stopped working...

    Help guys. :(
     
    kisetsu17, May 1, 2009
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