XP reporting more than one video card

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Shawk

........that is what Rage3D probe is telling me. I uninstalled the GF3 Ti200
and loaded the default VGA prior to installing my 9600 Pro. Obviously you
cant get rid of NVidia that easily. Any advice on how to rid myself of it?
I presume its in the registry - where would I find it?

Cheers, Shawk
 
What happens when you right click the second video card and select
uninstall? That should get rid of it. And then make sure you uninstall the
Nvidia drivers in Add/Remove Software. Worked for me.

JK
 
John Hall said:
What happens when you right click the second video card and select
uninstall? That should get rid of it. And then make sure you uninstall the
Nvidia drivers in Add/Remove Software. Worked for me.

JK
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Thanks for the replies but there is no second card mentioned anywhere other
than in Rage 3D's Probe so I cannot right-click, uninstall or anything else.
In fact I DID uninstall, run the det destroyer etc prior to installing the
Radeon and thought all this had been successful. The ONLY place where there
is anything is within the regsustry. I have found the entry for the old
GF3Ti200 but it cannot be deleted - keeps saying error this file cannot be
deleted.

Having said all that I dont know whether any of this is actually affecting
anything so I may just leave well enough alone for now unless anyone else
has any ideas?

Cheers, Shawk.
 
Shawk said:
.......that is what Rage3D probe is telling me. I uninstalled the GF3 Ti200
and loaded the default VGA prior to installing my 9600 Pro. Obviously you
cant get rid of NVidia that easily. Any advice on how to rid myself of it?
I presume its in the registry - where would I find it?
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Are you sure you're not just seing the secondary display adapter that is in
device manager for all Radeons with dual-display/TV out?
 
You may just need to change the permissions on the registry key before
you're able to do it - give yourself Full Control.

XP (+ 2K? ) tend to set SYSTEM as the only account with full control to
device registry entries.

That said, try going View-> Show Hidden Devices in Device Manager- you may
be able to find and delete it through the UI.
 
Skid said:
Are you sure you're not just seing the secondary display adapter that is in
device manager for all Radeons with dual-display/TV out?
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Skid, only see two adapters in the device manager - both are Radeons so
thats normal (dual) - but if I use 3DRage Probe it says that XP is reporting
an additional device - my old GF3 Ti200. It has pointed me to the culprit
entry in the registry but havent been able to get rid of it yet.

Spong, thanks for the tips - will have a look at that.

Shawk.
 
Shawk said:
Skid, only see two adapters in the device manager - both are Radeons so
thats normal (dual) - but if I use 3DRage Probe it says that XP is reporting
an additional device - my old GF3 Ti200. It has pointed me to the culprit
entry in the registry but havent been able to get rid of it yet.
Click to expand...

If you're logged on using an account with administrative privileges, you
should just be able to delete the key using REGEDIT. If for any reason that
doesn't work, try REGCLEANER, a great free utility available at
http://www.webmasterfree.com/regcleaner.html
 
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