There is a little known technique to get rid of all unused drivers for
devices that are now, or were at one time, listed in the control Panel
device manager. It is the last section in the article at
http://forbiddenpc.com/unclean.htm This article explains how to remove
the old drivers after replacing the motherboard in your computer. In
your case, just follow the instructions to get to the device manager
list of drivers for the Display adapter and delete them all.
Thanks to Norm Higgs for this link in another post.
Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
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icehouse.net
509-891-5188
PogoWolf wrote:
> Abed,
> My wife has an Emachine that I added a new (MUCH better) video card to.
> I thought it should be nothing more then telling the BIOS to use the card
>; and
> not the onboard, installing the card and the drivers and everything would
> be fine.
>
> however, this was not the case. Emachines had the on board drivers
> burried so
> deep in the system that even after unisntalling the drivers and running a
> reg. cleaner
> to remove anything else it still was useing some of the on board and some
>; of the card
>; (I know it's weird.. I had another post about how my wife could have good
>; framerates
> on a FPS game and HORRIBLE rates on any MMO..it was all about the video
> card)
>
> the only thing I can tell you that should help with some headaches is to
> reinstall windows
> Our Emachine recovery CD only reinstalled windows. it didn't install all
> the extra crap that
>; came with the machine like McAfee and even the on board video drivers. it
> dropped to
> a clean install using only the standard VGA driver.
>
> >From there I changed the BIOS settings and installed the card, then
>; updated the driver.
> she hasn't had a problem sense.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> On 9/28/07, Abed Zantout < azantout2001%40yahoo.com">azantout2001yahoo.com
> <mailto:azantout2001%40yahoo.com>> wrote:
> >
>; > Good morning everyone.
> >
>; > I see that no one had attempted to answer my question from Wednesday
> Sept.
> > 26 regarding the Video Board vs. the built in Video chip on an e-machine
> > desktop.
> > I will be doing this work (upgrade) either this weekend or on Monday.
> >
>; > Not sure what I am up against but I will share my experience or the
> > problem I face with the group later on so we may all learn something.
> >
>; > Hope everyone has a nice weekend.
> >
>; > Abed
>; >
>; > ---------------------------------
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> >
>; >
>; >
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