Computer froze when driver was uninstalling.

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3far4shot

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This is the first time i have had my PC freeze. I decided to get the latest Nvidia drivers(175.19) and when downloading them i forgot to uninstall my old one first. So after i got done downloading and installing the new drivers, i went into control panel and went to where it said Nvidia drivers and just clicked remove. So the Nvidia uninstall program came up and i waited and then i was unable to move the mouse, so i turned of the computer my shutting it off though the PSU switch on the back. When i booted the PC back up tho everything seemed normal, the new drivers where installed(according to GPU-Z) and everything is working fine. But i came to find out i had uninstalled my network drivers, so i couldn't get on the internet or anything. So i inserted my mobo drivers agian and reinstalled the network drivers and they work fine now( even tho it named them as Network connection 3 and network connections 4 so i just renamed them as 1 and 2 dont know what that was about).


I am going to upgrade my CPU and GPU soon( to Q6600 and GTX260) and i dont want to have any problems when i do. I dont plan to reinstall the OS when i do the upgrades.
 
When you're doing a major upgrade like that you really should reinstall the OS, as not doing so can cause a whole lot of problems.
 
SharpieFiend said:
When you're doing a major upgrade like that you really should reinstall the OS, as not doing so can cause a whole lot of problems.
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not necessary . If you take care and do all the necessary steps, everything is fine .

Uninstall old drivers, boot into safe mode . run driver sweeper, driver cleaner pro, crap cleaner . wipe out nvidia or ati registry entries manually . reboot . install new drivers . works for me every time . no problems .
 
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