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AMD to Nvidia...Reinstall or Driver Sweeper?

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My new 560ti arrived this morning. It's replacing a 4870. Should I reinstall Windows 7 or is Driver Sweeper good enough?
 
Uninstall in control panel (express uninstall All ATI)

When it says reboot say no, then run driver sweeper and remove all ATI, then yes to reboot.

Now install Nvidia drivers.
 
if you are using windows 7 you can just remove them normally, if you really want to you can run driver sweeper but you don't need to. windows 7 separates the drivers so neither driver can conflict with each other. windows vista on the other hand you definitely would have to.
 
I wouldn't trust Windows 7 to manage drivers even though it's leaps and bounds ahead of XP in this area. I agree with crawlgsx with one slight change. I always reboot into safe mode after uninstalling CCC and then run driver sweeper. This may be overkill, just want to make sure the video driver isn't loaded.
 
edge929 said:
I wouldn't trust Windows 7 to manage drivers even though it's leaps and bounds ahead of XP in this area. I agree with crawlgsx with one slight change. I always reboot into safe mode after uninstalling CCC and then run driver sweeper. This may be overkill, just want to make sure the video driver isn't loaded.
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^^^ This. If you were going the other way, because of games wanting to run Physx, it might be more "hairy." But if you do it this way, you won't have any issues.
 
Agreed. That is what I did. Just make sure to boot into safe mode before driver sweeper.
 
I've never used safe mode and never had a problem, but it certainly can't hurt :).

Agreed I do not trust Win7 to do the full job (or more importantly the ATI uninstall manager)
 
i would just reinstall windows but i dont keep anything useful on my ssd lol.

just using driver sweeper should be fine.
 
Just install the new card and the drivers — Windows 7 can handle it. This is not 2003.
 
edge929 said:
I wouldn't trust Windows 7 to manage drivers even though it's leaps and bounds ahead of XP in this area. I agree with crawlgsx with one slight change. I always reboot into safe mode after uninstalling CCC and then run driver sweeper. This may be overkill, just want to make sure the video driver isn't loaded.
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huh.. the fact that you can run an AMD card + a nvidia card(physx hack) in the same system is proof enough that windows 7 does a perfect job managing the drivers, but ok. all i was saying was it was optional if he wanted to go through all that work to completely delete something he didn't have to.
 
When i switched to my 460 (From 5850) i just uninstalled the ATI driver with the ATI Uninstall too, removed the card, install the new one and install the drivers from Nvidia... never had trouble..
 
edge929 said:
I wouldn't trust Windows 7 to manage drivers even though it's leaps and bounds ahead of XP in this area. I agree with crawlgsx with one slight change. I always reboot into safe mode after uninstalling CCC and then run driver sweeper. This may be overkill, just want to make sure the video driver isn't loaded.
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At which point you swap the card? Before booting to safe mode I assume?
 
skcorpio said:
At which point you swap the card? Before booting to safe mode I assume?
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Personally I would do it after running Driver Sweeper in safe mode.

Uninstall normally > Reboot to safe mode > Driver Sweeper > shut down > swap card > boot normally > install nVidia drivers > reboot
 
Eriksrocks said:
Personally I would do it after running Driver Sweeper in safe mode.

Uninstall normally > Reboot to safe mode > Driver Sweeper > shut down > swap card > boot normally > install nVidia drivers > reboot
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Got it. Thanks.
 
I had absolutely no problem slapping my nVidia card in after having an ATI, but the ATI drivers, absolute endless suck to get them installed after having an nVidia card in. Even after uninstalling the device+drivers and running Driver Sweeper in safe mode first.
 
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