42.01 Drivers - Help They wont install properly

mannyo1 · Dec 27, 2002, 09:00 PM

I can't get them to install properly.

All seems to go well till the reboot, then I get the following message

RUNDLL - Error loading I:\WINDOWS\System32\NvCpl.dll , one or more arguments are invalid .

OS is win xp, pny geforce4 ti4600 previous driver version was 41.09 . I tried the 41.80's from creative and that had the same error.

All file versions appear to be correct (6.14.1.4201) and no amount of cleaning, deleting, uninstalling and hacking of the registry has got it to work yet, any ideas.

Going back to 41.09 = problem gone and all ok.

digitalwanderer · Dec 27, 2002, 09:09 PM

...un-install your old ones first? If so, how?

mannyo1 · Dec 27, 2002, 09:22 PM

I used add remove programs in control panel.

I also tried detonator destroyer which upon reboot changes the driver to standard vga, then deleted all the nv*.* files that appeared to belong to the drivers from all over the os drive inc. dllcache, deleted all references I could about nvidia from the registry and reinstalled, still the same.

Hog54 · Dec 28, 2002, 03:16 AM

you must have a corrupt set of drivers?it installed no problem for me.

mannyo1 · Dec 28, 2002, 11:26 PM

Thought I had better post to let everyone know, I have the drivers installed and working, here is what I found out.

As you know I posted in an earlier post that windows on my system for some reason is installed onto drive I: , this turned out to be the key to all my problems.

In frustration at these drivers I mapped drive C: using map network drive to I$ (which is my OS drive letter) with a reconnect at logon and reinstalled the drivers. and rebooted voila drivers working.

So I disconnected to mapping and logged off and back on, error came back. so this got me thinking, I went to a dos cmd prompt, into the windows\system32 folder and using edit in binary mode opened up nvcpl.dll and did a search for c:\ and there it was a hardcoded c:\ in the dll.

I edited this to I:\ , saved the file. disconnected the c: mapping again, logged off / on and no error came up.

So to cut a long story short nvcpl.dll has a hardcoded reference to c: in it , so if anyone else needs to install these drivers on another os drive letter you will most likely need to edit the file.

Regards

Manny

Dec 27, 2002, 09:00 PM	#1
mannyo1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	42.01 Drivers - Help They wont install properly I can't get them to install properly. All seems to go well till the reboot, then I get the following message RUNDLL - Error loading I:\WINDOWS\System32\NvCpl.dll , one or more arguments are invalid . OS is win xp, pny geforce4 ti4600 previous driver version was 41.09 . I tried the 41.80's from creative and that had the same error. All file versions appear to be correct (6.14.1.4201) and no amount of cleaning, deleting, uninstalling and hacking of the registry has got it to work yet, any ideas. Going back to 41.09 = problem gone and all ok.

Dec 27, 2002, 09:09 PM	#2
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,620 Rep Power: 0	Did you... ...un-install your old ones first? If so, how? __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Dec 28, 2002, 03:16 AM	#4
Hog54 HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Location: Boston Posts: 164 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	you must have a corrupt set of drivers?it installed no problem for me. __________________ AMD PHENOM II 965 BE ASUS M3N72-D 4 GIGs GSKILL PC-8500 EVGA GTX460 SC 1GB WINDOWS 7 X64 Ultimate

Dec 28, 2002, 11:26 PM	Thread Starter #5
mannyo1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Got it to work Thought I had better post to let everyone know, I have the drivers installed and working, here is what I found out. As you know I posted in an earlier post that windows on my system for some reason is installed onto drive I: , this turned out to be the key to all my problems. In frustration at these drivers I mapped drive C: using map network drive to I$ (which is my OS drive letter) with a reconnect at logon and reinstalled the drivers. and rebooted voila drivers working. So I disconnected to mapping and logged off and back on, error came back. so this got me thinking, I went to a dos cmd prompt, into the windows\system32 folder and using edit in binary mode opened up nvcpl.dll and did a search for c:\ and there it was a hardcoded c:\ in the dll. I edited this to I:\ , saved the file. disconnected the c: mapping again, logged off / on and no error came up. So to cut a long story short nvcpl.dll has a hardcoded reference to c: in it , so if anyone else needs to install these drivers on another os drive letter you will most likely need to edit the file. Regards Manny

Dec 27, 2002, 09:22 PM	Thread Starter #3
mannyo1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	I used add remove programs in control panel. I also tried detonator destroyer which upon reboot changes the driver to standard vga, then deleted all the nv. files that appeared to belong to the drivers from all over the os drive inc. dllcache, deleted all references I could about nvidia from the registry and reinstalled, still the same.