Help remove nvidia drivers.

24sens · Jun 25, 2006, 01:19 PM

I installed the 87.25 nvidia drivers. They were not WHQL certified. They were in zip form when I downloaded them. I do not remember where I got them. I extracted the drivers to a folder on C:\ and installed them. After installation I noticed that they did not show on Add/Remove Programs or on C:\Program Files. I have the nvidia desktop manager. Now I want to remove them so that I can install the latest drivers (97.31 WHQL certified ones). I went to device manager> display adapters>right clicked on GeForce FX5200 which is my card>Properties>Driver Tab>uninstall>o k. This does not help. There is a message that says that 'Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be required to boot up the computer'. This is not true as when I disable them the computer boots fine. If there was a nvidia folder in the 'C:\Program Files', I would go there and look for the uninstaller. Is there a nvidia driver uninstall tool out there I can use? My system is Intel P4, 3.0 Ghz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 80 Gig HDD and a nVidia GeForce FX5200 graphics card. Please help!

mkk · Jun 25, 2006, 09:44 PM

Give it a whack with DriverCleaner. Run it Windows safe mode and follow the instructions.

24sens · Jun 26, 2006, 06:18 PM

Thanks. Driver Cleaner Pro worked excellently. I had to run it three times for it to remove everything. Thank you so much.

Jun 25, 2006, 01:19 PM	#1
24sens DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	Help remove nvidia drivers. I installed the 87.25 nvidia drivers. They were not WHQL certified. They were in zip form when I downloaded them. I do not remember where I got them. I extracted the drivers to a folder on C:\ and installed them. After installation I noticed that they did not show on Add/Remove Programs or on C:\Program Files. I have the nvidia desktop manager. Now I want to remove them so that I can install the latest drivers (97.31 WHQL certified ones). I went to device manager> display adapters>right clicked on GeForce FX5200 which is my card>Properties>Driver Tab>uninstall>o k. This does not help. There is a message that says that 'Failed to uninstall the device. The device may be required to boot up the computer'. This is not true as when I disable them the computer boots fine. If there was a nvidia folder in the 'C:\Program Files', I would go there and look for the uninstaller. Is there a nvidia driver uninstall tool out there I can use? My system is Intel P4, 3.0 Ghz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 80 Gig HDD and a nVidia GeForce FX5200 graphics card. Please help!

Jun 25, 2006, 09:44 PM	#2
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,495 Rep Power: 132 System Specs	Give it a whack with DriverCleaner. Run it Windows safe mode and follow the instructions.

Jun 26, 2006, 06:18 PM	Thread Starter #3
24sens DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	Thanks. Driver Cleaner Pro worked excellently. I had to run it three times for it to remove everything. Thank you so much.