problem installing nvidia driver

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aaronep

I have a HP Media Center Computer with Windows XP and Service Pack
2. The computer came with Nvidia GeForce 6150 Display Adapter.

For some reason, the displays have failed and can show resolutions no
higher than 800 x 600 pixels and only 4 bit colors.

I have tried to correct this by reinstalling the driver for the
adapter from Nvidia's website. The installation went through all of
the paces but never showed "installation complete", but did give an
error message :

"an error (5011 : 0x8002802b has occured while running the
setup".

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to correct the problem.?
Nvidia does not have a tech support phone # listed.

best, Aaron
 
Don't uninstall just the driver. Go into device manager and remove the video card. When you reboot it should recognize the card as a standard VGA device and you should be able to install a driver.
 
Don't uninstall just the driver. Go into device manager and remove the video card. When you reboot it should recognize the card as a standard VGA device and you should be able to install a driver.
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Reply to all of the good people of answered my post. Problem has been
solved. I thought I had uninstalled the
nvidia driver before I posted the question, maybe I tried by only
using the add/remove feature of Control Panel.
I did access the DISABLE VIDEO CARD under properties which was under
display settings and, after that, rebooted the computer and did
succeed in installing the driver that I downloaded from Nvidia. A
lot of fumbling on my part, but
succeeded in getting proper displays up again. I did not know that
installing the drivers for the motherboard would also install the
video drivers, so should the problem arise again, might try that
route.

In any event, the HP support people, who did not suggest disabling the
driver first, finally after trying to reinstall the driver, suggested
that I reformat the hard drive and then re-install XP. Fortunately,
from your suggestions, this was not necessary. To all, my
appreciation is PARAMOUNT. Aaron
 
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