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nVIDIA drivers make system go crazy. Help!


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tgrab

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I have GeForce Ti4200 card.
If I use my card without any driver it works fine, I mean, it's stable and everything is displayed properly, but of course lack of drivers makes it slow and unable to perform some tasks.
So I install the nVidia drivers and then the system goes crazy.
Very often the screen goes blank for just 1 second, then comes back to normal, and also it hangs up very often so I even can't bring Task Manager - I just have to reboot it. If I play a movie (divX) it just stops after few seconds, so I have to close Media Player. The newer the driver is the worse the performance is. If I install the newest one 71.89, the systems just hangs after i start it, so I just have to reboot in safe mode and roll back the driver. And if I uninstall the driver I don't have any of these problems.
Does anyone know what it is?
Can anyone help me please???
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hudihoo

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you have to install the right drivers for the right card. you are probably installing drivers for a different model card.
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thnaks... but nvidia has the same driver for most of the models.....its their policy...

Any other ideas? PLEASE GUYS....
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austin_o

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I had some issues with nvidia drivers. I found some good advice in another forum. Download the current driver for your card. Then download driver cleaner at http://www.drivercleaner.net/ Then remove the present driver in ad/remove programs. Boot into safe mode. Run driver cleaner TWICE and delete all that it finds. Then re-boot and install the current driver. This solved my problem. Hope is solves yours.
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