Ati drivers to nvidia drivers

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andrewt328

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i curently have an ati card, but once i get my nvidia card in, can i just put it in the slot and will it work, or do i have to mess around with the drivers?

i really dont know what im doing, so please explain thoroughly?

thanks
 
You will need to uninstall your current ATI drivers, and use Driver Cleaner to make sure you get all the remnants of the ATI drivers out of your OS before you install your Nvidia card and the drivers for it.
 
when i uninstall the drivers, should i have my monitor plugged into the ati card or into the mother board?

thanks
 
Leave your ATI card in the PC. Uninstall the drivers. After uninstalling the drivers, you will probably get a prompt to restart the pc now or later. Just chose restart later. Once the uninstall window closes out, shut down the PC, then install your new video card. After you start your PC up the first time you'll get the "new hardware found" dialougue. Just press "esc" to get out of it and install the driver for your new card. BTW, be sure to download the latest driver for the Nvidia card from their website before you uninstall the original card. Hope this helps. And yes leave your monitor plugged into the ATI card until you remove it from the PC.
 
andrewt328 said:
when i uninstall the drivers, should i have my monitor plugged into the ati card or into the mother board?

thanks
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Leave it plugged into the ati card. Just cause it won't have drivers installed doesn't mean it wont work.. it just uses a generic VGA driver which Windows has instead.
 
Vola said:
Leave your ATI card in the PC. Uninstall the drivers. After uninstalling the drivers, you will probably get a prompt to restart the pc now or later. Just chose restart later. Once the uninstall window closes out, shut down the PC, then install your new video card. After you start your PC up the first time you'll get the "new hardware found" dialougue. Just press "esc" to get out of it and install the driver for your new card. BTW, be sure to download the latest driver for the Nvidia card from their website before you uninstall the original card. Hope this helps. And yes leave your monitor plugged into the ATI card until you remove it from the PC.
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This is correct, don't listen to these people who are saying you need to format or use driver cleaner. Those are just wivestales that people who don't know how it works make up. They're paranoid that uninstalling by normal means won't let them "properly" install the new drivers.

Don't get me wrong, driver cleaner can be a good idea if you're having problems, but for the typical install it's unnecessary.
 
Sr7 said:
This is correct, don't listen to these people who are saying you need to format or use driver cleaner. Those are just wivestales that people who don't know how it works make up. They're paranoid that uninstalling by normal means won't let them "properly" install the new drivers.

Don't get me wrong, driver cleaner can be a good idea if you're having problems, but for the typical install it's unnecessary.
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LOL. If you look at my first post, I told him to use Driver Cleaner. I just decided to skip it in my long winded explanation since it just adds another layer of complexity to the video card swap and probably would be more trouble than it's worth. :D
 
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