PLEASE help with video card driver

[amabee]

Hopefully someone here can help, I have been working with both nvidia and EVGA on this, but zero luck so far. I keep getting the error in the title. I currently have an 8800GT, but also had this problem with my 7950GT. I have tried multiple times to uninstall and reinstall the drivers in safe mode, using DriverCleaner in between, no luck.

I have discovered that I have, from a previous ASUS EN7300GS, the Asus Enhanced Display Driver helper service, which from looking around, is very likely a part of this problem. It does not appear in add/remove programs, only in the device manager. I have tried to uninstall and/or disable it. When I do, Windows fails to restart, I see a flash of a blue screen, it reboots and I am in the safe mode menu. At this point, all I can do to get windows back up is to go with the last good configuration, and of course the Asus enhanced display driver is still there.

Is there some way to manually remove this from my system?? I am using XP home.

I also read this:

Q1. I previously owned an Asus video card and now my opengl games won't work with my new card or run extremely slow. (or i installed a newer driver on my Asus card and now opengl games run at 1fps)

A. This is caused by installing the Asus Enhanced Display Driver, it installs its own optimised Opengl ICD (ATKOGL32.dll), to fix this, open Add-Remove programs and uninstall this.


This dll file is on my system, along with several others that appear to be from Asus, however, I cannot uninstall this.

I then found a utility called OpenGl Extension viewer, it shows no support for OpenGL above v. 1.2

It also lists both ATKOGL32.dll and nvoglnt as "ICD" drivers.

Any ideas how to fix this??

 

[Puffnstuff]

If you don't have any other asus peripherals then you might consider entering the registry and manually searching for and deleting all asus references.

 

[BernardP]

Originally posted by: amabee

9(...) This is caused by installing the Asus Enhanced Display Driver, it installs its own optimised Opengl ICD (ATKOGL32.dll), to fix this, open Add-Remove programs and uninstall this.

This dll file is on my system, along with several others that appear to be from Asus, however, I cannot uninstall this.

I then found a utility called OpenGl Extension viewer, it shows no support for OpenGL above v. 1.2

It also lists both ATKOGL32.dll and nvoglnt as "ICD" drivers.

Any ideas how to fix this??

In addition to Puffnstuff's suggestion, you also have to delete the suspect .dll files in question. A prudent way to do this is to first rename all these files one by one with a .bak extension (like in backup). You then restart after each rename operation. At some point, you will find which file is the source of this problem. If you get into deeper trouble, you simply change the extension back to .dll.