second installation

just thought I'd let people know....I had to re-install vista after trying to install the software and drivers for my motherboard, one of those drivers, for the ethernet, was the same driver that vista already had installed and instead of not letting me install it, it installed both, the original one was running as a service but the second (dupicate) was the one actually trying to control the card, which vista wouldn't let it do because it said that the same process was already running as a service....which meant: NO INTERNET! Couldn't go online to get help or use Windows Update or anything...When I tried to use device manager to uninstall/re-install Vista said that it couldn't be removed because Windows might not start without it...I couldn't think of any other option than to re-install Vista (which saved the original files and settings to a Windows.old folder instead of overwriting it, which is cool in case you need to salvage any files from it).
So, I guess the moral of the story, boys and girls, is: if Vista has a driver installed and it's working, don't mess with it. (the old, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" saying applies here) I was too quick clicking installation options for the chipset drivers, I could have de-selected the option to install the ethernet driver. I still want to find out if I'll be able to install the Nvidia GPU software that used to come up when you selected 'advanced' in the display settings dialogue (for changing resolutions, color, manual over-clocking, etc...), I afraid to try it, now, worried that it will disable the GPU.

Hi, I know what you mean about hte Nvidia software, i was a litlle displeased to find the the advanced tab was not there, i did install the updated vista driver for my Nvidia card, but it still has the sane stuff, also my card has 256MB ram and can access an additional 256Mb from system ram, but not in windows vista. -- Gregory P. Getchell
"Hoozure D. Addy" wrote:

just thought I'd let people know....I had to re-install vista after trying to install the software and drivers for my motherboard, one of those drivers, for the ethernet, was the same driver that vista already had installed and instead of not letting me install it, it installed both, the original one was running as a service but the second (dupicate) was the one actually trying to control the card, which vista wouldn't let it do because it said that the same process was already running as a service....which meant: NO INTERNET! Couldn't go online to get help or use Windows Update or anything...When I tried to use device manager to uninstall/re-install Vista said that it couldn't be removed because Windows might not start without it...I couldn't think of any other option than to re-install Vista (which saved the original files and settings to a Windows.old folder instead of overwriting it, which is cool in case you need to salvage any files from it).
So, I guess the moral of the story, boys and girls, is: if Vista has a driver installed and it's working, don't mess with it. (the old, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" saying applies here) I was too quick clicking installation options for the chipset drivers, I could have de-selected the option to install the ethernet driver. I still want to find out if I'll be able to install the Nvidia GPU software that used to come up when you selected 'advanced' in the display settings dialogue (for changing resolutions, color, manual over-clocking, etc...), I afraid to try it, now, worried that it will disable the GPU.

Also, after installing video drivers, my performance rating went up from 2 to 3, weird Huh!!! -- Gregory P. Getchell
"Hoozure D. Addy" wrote:

just thought I'd let people know....I had to re-install vista after trying to install the software and drivers for my motherboard, one of those drivers, for the ethernet, was the same driver that vista already had installed and instead of not letting me install it, it installed both, the original one was running as a service but the second (dupicate) was the one actually trying to control the card, which vista wouldn't let it do because it said that the same process was already running as a service....which meant: NO INTERNET! Couldn't go online to get help or use Windows Update or anything...When I tried to use device manager to uninstall/re-install Vista said that it couldn't be removed because Windows might not start without it...I couldn't think of any other option than to re-install Vista (which saved the original files and settings to a Windows.old folder instead of overwriting it, which is cool in case you need to salvage any files from it).
So, I guess the moral of the story, boys and girls, is: if Vista has a driver installed and it's working, don't mess with it. (the old, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" saying applies here) I was too quick clicking installation options for the chipset drivers, I could have de-selected the option to install the ethernet driver. I still want to find out if I'll be able to install the Nvidia GPU software that used to come up when you selected 'advanced' in the display settings dialogue (for changing resolutions, color, manual over-clocking, etc...), I afraid to try it, now, worried that it will disable the GPU.