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    Uninstalling drivers not working correctly

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by gamadaya, Mar 27, 2009.

  1. gamadaya

    gamadaya Notebook Evangelist

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    Here's the process. I try to uninstall nVidia display drivers, and it freezes. Task manager doesn't even recognize that it's running, but when I try to uninstall again, it says to wait for the process to finish. So I have to restart at that point. When I reboot, I go to uninstall, and it tells me that an uninstall is in progress, and asks if I want to finish, so I say yes. It finishes, asks me to reboot, I say no, use driver sweeper, reboot, install new drivers. So why is it freezing at the beginning?

    Also, when I reboot after uninstalling drivers, it automatically reinstalls some other drivers, but I don't know what version. Are they like placeholders or something, because when I go to control panel before manually installing drivers, it doesn't say I have any display drivers.
     
    gamadaya, Mar 27, 2009
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  2. fatmandoo

    fatmandoo Notebook Consultant

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    Did you do it in safe mode?
     
    fatmandoo, Mar 28, 2009
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  3. Starcub

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    This is probably the standard VGA driver. It lets you view non-3D stuff, but doesn't provide GPU acceleration.
     
    Starcub, Mar 28, 2009
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  4. gamadaya

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    No I didn't try it in safe mode. Does that even work?
     
    gamadaya, Mar 28, 2009
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  5. fatmandoo

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    Yup.. I do it in safe mode all the time ~
     
    fatmandoo, Mar 30, 2009
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    Safe mode works to uninstall stuff as long as the uninstaller doesn't need the Windows Installer.
     
    AGlobalThreatsK, Mar 30, 2009
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