Help_new Graphic Card!

hi there, i just got a new new nvidia graphic card called gerforce6600
(i know not the best but it should be enough for the games out now)
i had a ati graphic card before.
this was my first time exhangeing graphic cards, and i had no idea
that you should delet the old drivers before so i installed the drivers of my new card and my computer went RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOed. i talked with a friend of mine and told me that i should imediatly remove the old drivers (from the ati one) and reinstall the ones from my new one. i did that and it still got jammed when i played games, with graphic problems in guild wars etc. at that time i had my feet on my computer, and i started to wonder why it got so hot fast, so i quickly opened it and found out that somthing was jamming the cooler of my graphic card so i got that jam out, and let it sit down and cool itselft for about a hour, then i restarted my computer, and it took 10min to start op?? (before it took like 45sec-1min) omg what is happening now?
now everytime i start my computer it will take about 10 min....
can somone plz help me out here
thanx

It sounds like you may have knackered your registry and IRQ settings a bit.

When you removed your old ATI drivers, did you have the ATI card installed when you did this? If not, they won't have uninstalled properly from the Registry, and your PC may still be looking for some form of ATI card.

Before you try the following, obtain the Driver Cleaner Pro software from www.guru3d.com It will help clear out any left over driver files not necessary.

Run the driver Cleaner software, and remove all reference to your ATI drivers from the PC. Reboot the PC and see if this fixes the problem, if not, follow the next solution.

Leaving your Nvidia card in, uninstall the NVidia driver suite completely, shut the machine down and then remove the card. Replace your ATI card, reboot the PC and see if the ATI card redetects itself and installs. If it does this fine, then it means the uninstall of ATI software didn't uninstall the card, just the software. Wait for your PC to install the card, then reinstall the ATI software and drivers. Reboot the machine.

When rebooted, then completely remove the ATI drivers and software again. Then run the Driver Cleaner Pro software to completely remove all the ATI drivers etc this time around. THis should hopefully rectify the Registry and make it work properly.

After the software and driver removal, shut the machine down. Replace the ATI with the NVidia and reboot the machine. Then run the Nvidia software and reinstall your drivers. Hopefully now you shouldn't have a problem.

If you still have a problem, then you may have knackered your machine, and could need a rebuild to fix it.

Unless someone else has a solution, I won't recommend attempting to go into the registry unless you know what you are doing.

You have learnt something here, Learn to Read the Installation Instructions before attempting the install of new hardware. It is there for a reason, unless you know what you are doing.

hmm, thanx alot
you see the problem is that
the shop where i bought the
card, didnt say anything about
deleting the the old drivers lol
they just said that i should install the
new ones, and then it will be working
ill try what you stated... thanx alot

I had to get a friend to help me; the weirdest thing was that after uninstalling my old drivers, I couldn't install the new ones because the disk wanted to play a movie, but I didn't have the drivers to run it... quite a pickle.

The simple answer is "get someone who knows what they're doing to help you". That's what I did . The guys at Best Buy offered to install mine, for a fee.

ATI drivers are the only drivers that need to be removed before you install new drivers....the guy that told you all you had to do was install the new drivers probably assumed you were installing over old nVidia drivers. nVidia cards have no problem working on an install over old drivers.

leave the ATI card out of the system and the nVidia card in the system. Force the machine to boot into safe mode. Then open your registry (start -> run -> "regedit" -> {enter}. Then locate this local key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display

and press delete.

That'll remove ALL your display drivers from the registry.
restart the computer and allow windows to locate the new video card and install the drivers again.

then go to start -> control panel -> add/remove programs and check to make sure anything that says ATI is removed.



BTW: You're gonna love the 6600