Nvidia Card on an ATI board, be driver hell?

[heymrdj]

Hello all, been looking to upgrade me and my girl's new 6 cores for better gaming. My bro is saying that value comes in from the GTX 460 right now. So here's the current build.

both have:

MSI 890GX-G65 using onboard video (HD4290 integrated)
AMD 1055T
4GB DDR3 RAM

Hers is two WD 1TB black RAID 0 via mainboard. Mine is 4 WD 500GB black RAID 0 via LSI Megaraid 8305ELP.

So seeing as ATI drivers are installed right now, what hell is there going to be trying to get a Nvidia gfx card to run on there without issue or bloat. Of course onboard can and will be disabled via BIOS when the card is installed. So is it uninstall the drivers, safe mode, driver cleaner, shutdown, install nvidia card, install drivers? Will that prevent the heck? Of course being an ATI chipset I'm not completely sure what gets uninstalled/reinstalled so that the chipset still functions.

Enlighten me AT .

 

[MentalIlness]

uninstall the drivers, safe mode, driver cleaner, shutdown, install nvidia card, install drivers?

:thumbsup:

 

[3DVagabond]

I've never heard of any troubles going from ATI to nVidia. I've only read of people having trouble going to ATI cards after having nVidia installed.

 

[faxon]

disable the integrated in bios and uninstall the drivers for graphics if you want physX to work LOL. other than that, just add what everyone else has said so far as far as proper clean up, dont want remnant files hanging around if you can help it, i have seen some really hard to isolate stability issues caused by that kind of thing

 

[sandorski]

I've never heard of any troubles going from ATI to nVidia. I've only read of people having trouble going to ATI cards after having nVidia installed.

Happens either way if you don't do it properly.

 

[heymrdj]

Sounds good. Going through the drivers on MSI's site I think i understand which drivers I'm going to install and which ones to leave off once i disable the onboard. Thanks!

 

[mindless1]

Get the newer drivers from nVidia's site not the (generally older) MSI OEM drivers.

Beyond that, the safe mode and driver cleaner steps are usually not necessary. Yes they can resolve some issues but most people don't "need" to do that, you only hear about the exceptions to this enough that they seem frequent problems because people don't come and report when things work properly.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Both "cards" should be able to coexist if this is going to be on Windows 7, with separate drivers. So even if you can't for whatever reason disable/uninstall the Ati integrated graphics, all should still be well.

 

[faxon]

Both "cards" should be able to coexist if this is going to be on Windows 7, with separate drivers. So even if you can't for whatever reason disable/uninstall the Ati integrated graphics, all should still be well.

yea except nvidia disables features if it detects an ati card in the system, so if you want to avoid that you need to make sure you dont have the ATI onboard running