Video driver problems

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I had 2 Nvidia Ge8800GT cards I was running in SLI mode with great success.
I'm running XP Pro- SP 2 on an ASUS A8N32-SLI mother board. I was trying to
play a new game but it was not working properly. Someone suggested I
uninstall old video drivers and reinstall new ones so this is what I did: I
uninstalled the cards (maybe this was a mistake. Did I uninstall the drivers
or the cards?) by going to Control Panel - Device mgr-Display adapters-right
clicked-properties, then hit "uninstall." Now the PC boots to the standard
VGA drivers, finds new hardware, but won't let me reinstall new drivers.
That's when I get the message that there was a problem installing the
hardware, "the parameter is incorrect."
No clue what to do now. No matter what I do, I get the same message.
Any help?
 
I had 2 Nvidia Ge8800GT cards I was running in SLI mode with great success.
I'm running XP Pro- SP 2 on an ASUS A8N32-SLI mother board. I was trying to
play a new game but it was not working properly. Someone suggested I
uninstall old video drivers and reinstall new ones so this is what I did:I
uninstalled the cards (maybe this was a mistake. Did I uninstall the drivers
or the cards?) by going to Control Panel - Device mgr-Display adapters-right
clicked-properties, then hit "uninstall." Now the PC boots to the standard
VGA drivers, finds new hardware, but won't let me reinstall new drivers.
That's when I get the message that there was a problem installing the
hardware, "the parameter is incorrect."
No clue what to do now. No matter what I do, I get the same message.
Any help?
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For additional help, you might head over to www.guru3d.com. This is
a specialised web forum that helps with these style of problems.

You did not do the correct method of removing and updating the
drivers.


Steps:

1) Download the current nVidia driver @ www.nvidia.com
Do not open the installer file yet

2) Go to www.guru3d.com and download/install Driver Sweeper

3) In Control Panel --> Add/Remove Program and uninstall nVidia
Drivers

4) Reboot

5) Let XP install; the standard VGA drivers

6) Reboot and access the Safe Mode

7) In Safe Mode, use Driver Sweeper and select both nVidia "forceware"
and "Ageia" drivers to clean out the leftover settings of the nVidia
drivers

8) Reboot and start up normally

9) Now run/open new nVidia drivers installer
 
smlunatick said:
For additional help, you might head over to www.guru3d.com. This is
a specialised web forum that helps with these style of problems.

You did not do the correct method of removing and updating the
drivers.


Steps:

1) Download the current nVidia driver @ www.nvidia.com
Do not open the installer file yet

2) Go to www.guru3d.com and download/install Driver Sweeper

3) In Control Panel --> Add/Remove Program and uninstall nVidia
Drivers

4) Reboot

5) Let XP install; the standard VGA drivers

6) Reboot and access the Safe Mode

7) In Safe Mode, use Driver Sweeper and select both nVidia "forceware"
and "Ageia" drivers to clean out the leftover settings of the nVidia
drivers

8) Reboot and start up normally

9) Now run/open new nVidia drivers installer
I will try this in the order you suggest, but I have already run the driver sweeper in safe mode w/o success. I still get the "the parameter is incorrect message."
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