How do I downgrade a driver in Vista?

[jhbball]

Guys, need some help. I'm trying to downgrade a driver in Vista Home Premium, but I can't seem do it.

When I try to remove/upgrade, it says I already have the latest driver installed. I read it's possible to "delete" a driver when you go though the uninstall process for the device, but that option is not listed.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

 

[mechBgon]

Open up Device Manager, locate the device, right-click it, choose Properties, and go to the Driver tab. You'll find a Roll Back Driver button like this :camera:.

 

[jhbball]

That option seems to be greyed out. I'm guessing that means it's using the OEM driver, but I'm trying to install an older driver that I downloaded. Any other ideas?

 

[mechBgon]

Try disabling the device completely in the computer's BIOS menu, then boot into Windows, give it a couple minutes to assess the situation, then reboot, re-enable the device in the BIOS, and boot up again. Does that change anything, or is it still having the same problem?

 

[jhbball]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Try disabling the device completely in the computer's BIOS menu, then boot into Windows, give it a couple minutes to assess the situation, then reboot, re-enable the device in the BIOS, and boot up again. Does that change anything, or is it still having the same problem?

I'll give it a shot and report back.

 

[jhbball]

No option in the bios

 

[stlcardinals]

I believe the Rollback button is greyed out because there has been only one driver installed for that device, hence no previous driver to rollback to.

In Device Manager, right click and Uninstall the device.

Reboot windows and it should go through the hardware detection and install process again.
Hopefully you can pick which driver you want to install but it might autodetect the current driver again.

 

[mentalcrisis00]

Furthermore if you already have the driver you want downloaded to the desktop just cancel hardware detection process and install the driver manually. I usually install all my drivers manually (graphics, motherboard, sound card drivers) unless I can't find a specific one I just let Windows handle it.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: jhbball
Guys, need some help. I'm trying to downgrade a driver in Vista Home Premium, but I can't seem do it.

When I try to remove/upgrade, it says I already have the latest driver installed. I read it's possible to "delete" a driver when you go though the uninstall process for the device, but that option is not listed.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

Go thru the manual driver update and choose the driver you want by navigating to its inf file.
Bill