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Whats this fascination people have with driver sweeping and such? It's 2012, not 2000. I've yet to experience a problem just loading things normally after simply uninstalling one companies software and installing the other companies software and card.
I think this is an old school thing and people are simply overdoing it. And formatting? That is WAY over doing it.
I switched motherboards and processors twice and video cards 3 times and still running my original win7 install from August if 2009.
9800gt, Gtx260, gtx285, hd5850
Q6600, i7 870, i7 2600k
if you dont want your audio to crap all the time i suggest that you delete every amd file with driver sweeper before installing nvidia drivers and the gpu.
The only thing I would suggest is to remove your current drivers BEFORE you take out the old video card. I remember, and this may no longer actually be the case, that some of the drivers sometimes didn't uninstall correctly unless the card was still physically in the machine.
I wish I was that lucky. Switched from a 780G motherboard to this 990FX motherboard and couldnt even boot into Windows. But then I always have shitty luck when it comes to this stuff. I had an Athlon II X3 that wouldnt unlock to a 4th core. Bought a Phenom II X2 555 that would only unlock to a 3 core and I may very well have to worlds only X6 1090 thats not stable at 4 GHz not to mention the first video card in my entire life that wont overclock AT ALL!
God hates me.
I had an issue when I went to the first i7, ahci was enabled on the new board and windows would just blue screen and reboot, went into bios and turned it and windows booted up just fine.
I don't think it has anything to do with drivers .. just uninstall the AMD drivers and when you pull the cards reset your cmos and then install the new card.. i think 99% of the time the DMI data pool will not see the new card unless you reset the cmos.
I don't think it has anything to do with drivers .. just uninstall the AMD drivers and when you pull the cards reset your cmos and then install the new card.. i think 99% of the time the DMI data pool will not see the new card unless you reset the cmos.
Just switched from AMD to Nvidia on two of my PC's at home and not single issue with the audio simply removing the AMD drivers and installing the Nvidia drivers.
you are so lucky you got a 690 they're so rare
I've found that if you sacrifice two chickens when changing video cards, it lessens the chance of driver issues. Your mileage may vary, but it works for me.
Currently running 6950's in CF, just ordered a GTX 690, wondering if I should reformat and start from scratch when the 690 comes in or just driversweep?
I've run into problems several times when upgrading my drivers. CCC would not open after an upgrade until I went into safe mode and used Driver Sweeper to clean everything out.
I agree you don't need to do anything major like reinstalling Windows or anything but you can run into wrinkles every now and then by installing several different drivers over each other and a Driver Sweeper run takes only a few minutes.
I know this was a joke, but there are times when, for me, this would be therapeutic.in addition to formatting, you should probably set fire to your whole computer, just to make sure.