Vista automatically installing driver, no cancel option

[maxam]

Hello - When attempting to to install a new video card driver I am faced with a problem that did not exist before. I had a computer tech come to my house when I was experiencing troubles with networking my Vista and XP computer's. He says that he could not have changed anything that would cause this installation issue.

I was updating my nVidia GTX 275 driver and after removing the drivers from programs and rebooting Vista automatically installed a VGA driver. I used to get a message saying that new hardware was found, I then canceled and proceeded with the nVidia driver installation.

As per a couple of forum posts I have read online I have gone into Control Panel\System\Advanced System Settings\Hardware\Windows Update Driver Settings and then selected "ask me each time I connect a new device before checking for drivers." When I select ok I am not able to press "Apply" which remains greyed out.

And I have also changed the settings in Services\Windows Driver Foundation to manual and Vista continues to install the VGA driver automatically.

I was thinking about removing and reinstalling the video card to see if it will be re-recognized which may help with preventing the automatic installation of the VGA driver. And I just read that I may be able to enable PCI and disable onboard graphics in the BIOS, without actually going into the BIOS the settings could not have been changed via the OS could it? I am trying to figure out what happened and made Vista behave this way.

I was able to finally install the nVidia driver after uninstalling the VGA driver in the device manager UI and updated with the proper one. The device manager now registers the GTX 275 with nVidia driver, but what a pain in the you know what this has been.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,
Robert

 

[Katokato]

You said:

"I was able to finally install the nVidia driver after uninstalling the VGA driver in the device manager UI and updated with the proper one. The device manager now registers the GTX 275 with nVidia driver, but what a pain in the you know what this has been."

So by that, I guess that your driver installed without any problems?

 

[maxam]

So by that, I guess that your driver installed without any problems?

Yes it did install but I would like to avoid this issue in the future. I posted to see if anyone reading this had any ideas or had a similar problem and if they fixed it I would be interested in how they resolved the issue.

Thanks,
Robert

 

[chaosrealm93]

Hello - I was updating my nVidia GTX 275 driver and after removing the drivers from programs and rebooting Vista automatically installed a VGA driver. I used to get a message saying that new hardware was found, I then canceled and proceeded with the nVidia driver installation.

i would have a simila problem with ATI drivers install. the computer would detect my 4870's HDMI audio thing and auto install it. when it comes time that i install the audio driver from the ATI suite, it would tell me that it failed to install the HDMI part. any help would be appreciated.