Hey all,
Got a little problem here. I went and bought the PNY GF 4 Ti 4400 the other day, and spent times installing it last night. I tried a couple diff divers (ones off the cd, the 27.70 and one other one). Each driver caused random lockups on my system. I uninstall the drivers (Win XP syas that the driver for the card was the reason it locked) and all runs fine, no locks. Now, I had a Radeon 8500 installed before the GF4, and I am thinking that either there are left over parts to the Radeon driver that are causing problems, or the GF4 drivers are buggy.

Also, I wanted to try some other drivers, but I am not sure how to load them when they do not include the self-installer. Anyone help me wiht that also please.

go to your control panel and then go into system, then go into the hardware tab and click on device manager (this should open a list of devices on your PC) expand display adapters and double click on the name of the graphics card (e.g. PCI graphics card or GeForce 4 Ti 4400) and then go to the driver tab, then click on to update driver, then follow the on screen instructions.

There done

or you can just download the drivers with the self installing .exe which most of the drivers on warp2search.com drivers section are

I just have to ask cause it just blows me away sometimes..

How can you justify/afford going from a Radeon 8500 --> GeForce4 Ti4400?

What?! The Radeon not FAST enough for you? lol


*jealous*

Actually, yes, the Radeon is plenty fast enough. I just posted another problem I was having with this Radeon. The Gf4 was just for testing to see what my problem could be. I think it was a bad card though, so it went back. I am a pastor, so I don't have to much of the $$$ laying around. :o

1. Download NVcleaner from here http://www.guru3d.com/files/ and the driver you are going to use, Nvidia just released a WHQL certified driver today ver. 29.42
2. Boot into safe mode, F8
3. Uninstall the VGA adapter, any and all, dont worry, on next boot it will force XP to install the card that's there. Reboot
When you reboot cancel out of the hardware wizard, do not install or let windows install the drivers.
4. Open Nvcleaner and hit Clean, hit okay, you will see an error page "could not delete these files, don't worry, your not worried about cleaning the C:/windows files, you just cleaned your registry.
5.Right click my computer/Hardware/Device Manager, you should see the VGA adapter with the exclamation!, update the driver to the new one, VGA Adapter/Have Disk/Location of driver. Word of note: dont worry about not seeing the GF4 card in the window that has a list of video cards, don't double click on any of them, just hit have disk... reboot
6. Go into bios AGP Aperture set to 256, disable fastwrites to be safe until you think your stable, then test it out.

If nothing else now you know how to do a clean driver install , but hopefully your registry is just clutterd with NV files and this will clean them out, in turn not creating any conflicts between XP and the AGP adapter.......