No display after uninstalling NVIDIA drivers

January 26th, 2003

Before installing new Nvidia display drivers, I uninstalled previous drivers as recommended but now I have no display. The system starts and boots up fine, but there is no display after the start up splash screen. Tried safe mode & VGA mode, only to have the same result. Apparently, Nvidia has uninstalled the default VGA drivers as well. Is there any way to remedy this problem without seeing what you're doing???

Thanks!

**Hipster Doofus** · January 27th, 2003

Never had that problem. With mine I uninstall the driver then when windows xp boots up it loads the driver it has on it, then you update from there.

Welcome to the forum btw.

**Geffy** · January 27th, 2003

shove in your XP CD, reinstall, but choose REPAIR install, that should fix it. Hopefully

January 27th, 2003

I cannot get Windows XP cd to work. Any ideas on how to run a system restore from DOS???

Your help is very much appreciated.

Gus K · January 27th, 2003

So when you turn it on you don't even see the post screen?

Try yanking and reseating your vid card.

In the BIOS make sure to set the cdrom as the first boot device, so as to boot off your XP disc.

U2Penn · February 1st, 2003

i'm not sure if this relates to what all of u are talking about but.....last week i went to the microsoft windows update and downloaded the NVIDIA latest driver. when i rebooted my computer my flat panel monitor would automatically go into "power saving mode" and turn off. so i had to manually shut down my computer and start up in "safe mode". got rid of the driver and then all worked well.

January 26th, 2003	Top \| #1
drome22 Unregistered Posts: n/a	No display after uninstalling NVIDIA drivers Before installing new Nvidia display drivers, I uninstalled previous drivers as recommended but now I have no display. The system starts and boots up fine, but there is no display after the start up splash screen. Tried safe mode & VGA mode, only to have the same result. Apparently, Nvidia has uninstalled the default VGA drivers as well. Is there any way to remedy this problem without seeing what you're doing??? Thanks!

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Hipster Doofus Good grief Charlie Brown Joined: May 2002 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 5,920 Reputation: 560 Power: 187	Never had that problem. With mine I uninstall the driver then when windows xp boots up it loads the driver it has on it, then you update from there. Welcome to the forum btw. Pentium 4 2.6ghz 400mhz @ 3.07ghz 472mhz / Gigabyte GA-8IHXP v2.1 / RAMBUS PC 800 768mb / Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256mb / 2 x Maxtor 80gb ATA133 DiamondMax, RAID0 :: 1 x Western Digital 7200 40gb / Liteon DVD-RW Dual Layer SOHW-1633S @ 1653S / Liteon 52x24x52 CD-RW LTR-52246S / Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Fan / Antec TruePower 480w / RD3XP Gladiator Rounded Cables

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January 27th, 2003	Top \| #4
drome22 Unregistered Posts: n/a	Windows XP cd not starting I cannot get Windows XP cd to work. Any ideas on how to run a system restore from DOS??? Your help is very much appreciated.

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January 27th, 2003	Top \| #5
Gus K NTFS abuser Joined: November 2002 Location: USA Posts: 380 Reputation: 30 Power: 120	So when you turn it on you don't even see the post screen? Try yanking and reseating your vid card. In the BIOS make sure to set the cdrom as the first boot device, so as to boot off your XP disc.

February 1st, 2003	Top \| #6
U2Penn U2Penn Joined: September 2002 Location: In the mire. Posts: 66 Reputation: 10 Power: 118	i'm not sure if this relates to what all of u are talking about but.....last week i went to the microsoft windows update and downloaded the NVIDIA latest driver. when i rebooted my computer my flat panel monitor would automatically go into "power saving mode" and turn off. so i had to manually shut down my computer and start up in "safe mode". got rid of the driver and then all worked well.