Right now i have a 128MB GeForce Graphics Card on my computer i have a 256 i want to put in. its also a GeForce Graphics card. Since the nVidia GeForce cards use the UDA (Unified Driver Architecture) can i just swap out the cards and update the driver. would that work.
if they cards are both compliant with your motherboard's AGP speeds/voltages and all that good stuff is in check, you should uninstall the video drivers before you take out the original card, shutdown and take it out. Then put the new card in it, boot up and install drivers.
The PC will boot fine, but it will look for drivers for the new device. If none are found, it'll ask for one. I don't know which GeForce you have, but if you have a 6x00 series card, you're probably better off to just hop over to nVidia's website and snag the latest drivers from there.
hmm quick question. how do i uninstall the drivers of the old card. They aren't on the program files list. do i go through device manager or what.
if you're on xp go to: -start -control panel -(classic view) system -hardware -device manager -display adapters should be there... i dont know if you wanna uninstall. when i put my new graphics card i just clicked disable (basically same thing)
Yeah don't worry, there's no other way for the bios to display etc. when the pc first boots anyway, drivers or not it will have to boot. When I first built my pc it was driverless for a few hours and the performance was terrible, all my open windows smeared the screen when I moved them, things too forever to close/open etc. Installed the drivers and saw what a 6800 could really do.
nevermind i thought he was gonna buy one, ahh im so stupid haha my excuse: im polish, give me a break haha
