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installing Nvidia drivers?

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pinecone

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Please help me understand proper driver installation. I'm building a Biostar system with onboard video. It uses the Nvidia 7050 pv/ nf 630a chipset.

I've downloaded the individual drivers from Biostar and also the WHQL driver files from Nvidia. I'm assuming the WHQL file has all of the individual drivers as it is only 1 file, i.e. chipset, audio, video etc.

So which would be best to use?

Also, after installing Win XP, do I go into device manager and delete all default windows drivers and then install Nvidia drivers, or just run Nvidia drivers over the installed Windows drivers.

I've done this many times but I'm not sure of the most effective procedure.

Thanks
 
What I usually do after a fresh OS install. I install chipset drivers, video drivers and then audio drivers. I would use the ones from nVidia's website since they are probably more recent than whats listed on the motherboard manufacturers site.

EDIT: Sorry for not answering all the questions. Typically the drivers are separate, chipset, video and audio. Such as nVidia's website they have graphic drivers and platform drivers. Once you identify what components you need drivers for then download those from nVidia and whatever audio is onboard, probably Realtek. You don't need to delete the default windows driver before hand either. That's so Windows 98 🙂.
 
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