Geforce card and Win XP Driver issues

[chanse2323]

I have a Geforce 6800 running under Windoze XP Professional, and having a weird issue. Every so often, when i log back in, I get garbled 640x480 16bit color screen, default drivers and such, and it tells me that the drivers are not correct, and need to be reinstalled. IF I reboot, everything is fine. I have tried multiple drivers, and they all do the same thing. Is there something I can do in XP to tell it, "there drivers are fine, stop trying to see if they are "certified" and correct" or such? Any help is appreciated. Have been spoiled. Haven't had pc problems in so long, I forgot my 7 year old anandtech login, and had to create a new one.


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[chanse2323]

Pardon, I'm confused

 

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[Quiksilver]

Only thing I could think of would be to reinstall the latest drivers and making 100% sure their uninstall before hand.

Download Crap Cleaner, Driver Sweeper (or Driver Cleaner), Latest nVidia drivers for that series ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_163.75.html )
Reboot PC into safe mode.
Uninstall drivers via control panel reboot when asked.
Run Driver Sweeper (or Driver Cleaner)
Reboot Normally
Run Crap Cleaner; the registry cleaner part, and keep doing it until it finds zero registry errors.
Install latest drivers.

 

[chanse2323]

I have removed the drivers using both crap cleaner and driver sweeper, and reinstalled the newest drivers. Both have not worked. IT still, randomly, when i log in, comes up 640x480 garbled. I have an ACER AL2223W widescreen, one thing i noticed, occasionally it comes up in properties saying it's an acer, other times it just says plug and play. And as far as I know ,there are no drivers or such for the monitor.

 

[chanse2323]

Have updated XP, and tried and removed all the latest Nvidia Drivers? Is this some random issue caused by poor nvidia XP drivers? Will going to Vista help that?

 

[robisbell]

when you ran CCleaner, did you use both the cleaner option and registry option and did you keep running both till they could find no errors, then installed the new drivers?

 

[chanse2323]

i was certain I did, until you asked, I am going to run it one more time just to play it safe.

 

[dclive]

Immediately after this happens next time, note the time, including seconds, based on your computer's clock in Windows (type TIME at the commandline right after login). Then reboot and confirm it didn't happen on that reboot, and note that time. Then post the last hundred or so lines of your c:\windows\setupapi.log.