Graphics problem - Help Pleeeeezzzzeeee

[SecretSquirrel]

Just upgraded to XP2000+. Asus A7v8x MB and a 256meg stick of 400mhz Ram.

OS is XP + SP1
Geforce3 Asus V8200 with Nvidia 40.72

Upgrade went surprisingly smoothly except for one niggly thing...whenever i try and open the Geforce3 tab from Display/settings i get an error ......"Run a DLL as an App encountered a problem".

The driver quoted is RunDLL32.exe

This means i cannot change any of the display properties, o/c or anything.

I did try some older drivers but made no diff.

Ideas would be appreciated

Thanks

[smite]

That sounds like the same problem as 40.41 drivers where you need to install the drivers - uninstall drivers - then re-install drivers and hey presto the tab works..

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I get the 40.41 drivers to work every time but all the drivers after that do not work and I get the same error as you. However, please remember that these are beta drivers.

[Anonymous]

Yes i had similar problem with my old system but like Smite said reinstalling solved the problem - but not this time.

The other drivers i tried are the 40.41 which i still have same problems.

The other thing i thought to try was to totally remove the nvidia drivers including registry and start again with even older drivers.

Anyone know where i can get the nvidia removal programme

[Tutonic]

Goto Device Manager and uninstall the graphics card, tell it not to reboot right away.

In Control Panel, click the Add/Remove Programs thing, and uninstall anything with Nvidia in the title.

Reboot.

Run the 40.72 setup.

Reboot.

It should now work

[Anonymous]

Dont think that will remove registry files though

[Tutonic]

If you use the control panel tool then it will.

[SecretSquirrel]

Sorted..

Seems this is a common problem when moving from 30xxxx to 40xxx nvidia there is a fix which worked first time here

http://www.guru3d.com/files/

got lots of other useful looking gforce  tweaking stuff too