ForceWare rel. 90, version 94.24 update botched

Hi,
I had twice a page fault in non paged area Blue Screen of Death
message in the last week and found that this can be linked to bad
drivers. I looked on the Nvidia homepage and found through their test
that for my Nvidia GeForce MX420 Videocard driver shows version 0.0
(so I have no driver ???) and that I should update to which I did.

Before I have to deinstall old versions. I have 2: nvidia display
driver - which has a broken link, says Add Remove Pro - and nvidia
windows 2000/XP display driver. But if the test app only showed a
message "installed driver version 0.0" then the app did not find any
of the 2! I deinstalled both of them and rebooted.

I then installed the 94.24 update. The install wizard proposed to
install, if I remember well, into a folder labelled something like c:
\nvidia\ But I want to have a structured folder tree and put it in c:
\program files\nvidia\. Then the wizard derailed and did not find the
info needed. I had to cancel the install, got a botched PC and was
lucky that my last system backup worked.

Questions:
- is the BSOD error "page fault in non paged area" linked to a bad
drivers ?
- why does the test app only find a 0.0 version of an unnamed
driver ??
- how to install ? Is it necessary to first uninstall the old drivers
and then install the new ones ? Or could I install the new over the
old version ? Where should I find the old nvidia windows 2000/XP
display driver be installed?
- where to install the driver ? in a c:\nvidia\ folder or should a c:
\program files\nvidia\. work, too ?

any help appreciated
Frank

The folder it is going to is just the extraction point for the setup program. I have mine on a
totally different drive and have had no issues with the setup program. You may want to try a driver
cleaner program to remove any leftover files that may be screwing up your install. The folder that
remains is just so you can go in and run the setup program from there if you need to. Also when I
look at the Nvidia driver page the recommended driver for your card is the 93.71 so you may want to
try that one.
--
Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+

"ftr" <news.ftr DeleteThis @free.fr> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I had twice a page fault in non paged area Blue Screen of Death
> message in the last week and found that this can be linked to bad
> drivers. I looked on the Nvidia homepage and found through their test
> that for my Nvidia GeForce MX420 Videocard driver shows version 0.0
> (so I have no driver ???) and that I should update to which I did.
>
> Before I have to deinstall old versions. I have 2: nvidia display
> driver - which has a broken link, says Add Remove Pro - and nvidia
> windows 2000/XP display driver. But if the test app only showed a
> message "installed driver version 0.0" then the app did not find any
> of the 2! I deinstalled both of them and rebooted.
>
> I then installed the 94.24 update. The install wizard proposed to
> install, if I remember well, into a folder labelled something like c:
> \nvidia\ But I want to have a structured folder tree and put it in c:
> \program files\nvidia\. Then the wizard derailed and did not find the
> info needed. I had to cancel the install, got a botched PC and was
> lucky that my last system backup worked.
>
> Questions:
> - is the BSOD error "page fault in non paged area" linked to a bad
> drivers ?
> - why does the test app only find a 0.0 version of an unnamed
> driver ??
> - how to install ? Is it necessary to first uninstall the old drivers
> and then install the new ones ? Or could I install the new over the
> old version ? Where should I find the old nvidia windows 2000/XP
> display driver be installed?
> - where to install the driver ? in a c:\nvidia\ folder or should a c:
> \program files\nvidia\. work, too ?
>
> any help appreciated
> Frank
>