Think thats the only thing that's allowing me to keep using the pc atm though! I found this and might give it a go as it seems to describe my problem!!
Taken from here:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=306922Without modded inf: (the driver lists your graphic card as a supported model)
Download the correct driver for your OS (XP/Vista/7, 32bit/64bit).
1. Uninstall your current driver through the control panel. (
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/249...ninstall1d.gif and
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/8...uninstall2.gif)
2. Restart and boot into safe mode (F8). (
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsafe.htm)
3. Run Driver Sweeper and maybe even CCleaner. (
http://www.guru3d.com/news/guru3d-dr...205--released/ and
http://www.ccleaner.com/)
4. Restart and boot to the regular desktop.
5. Install the new driver.
6. Restart.
With modded inf:
(the driver does not list your graphic card as a supported model) This is the issue I am gettingDownload both the driver and the modded inf for your OS (XP/Vista/7, 32bit/64bit).
(Modded infs can be found here:
http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/for...ers-and-tools/)
1. Uninstall your current driver through the control panel. (
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/249...ninstall1d.gif and
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/8...uninstall2.gif)
2. Restart and boot into safe mode (F8). (
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsafe.htm)
3. Run Driver Sweeper and maybe even CCleaner. (
http://www.guru3d.com/news/guru3d-dr...205--released/ and
http://www.ccleaner.com/)
4. Restart and boot to the regular desktop.
5. Decompress the downloaded driver and copy the modded inf into that folder.
6. Run the setup.exe you can find in that folder.
7. Restart.
Alternatively you could just install the new driver on top of the old one, but in rare cases this can cause problems because of old driver remnants.
In case you're getting an error message when you try to install the driver, decompress it with a free tool like 7-Zip (
http://www.7-zip.org/), move the PhsyX and 3D Vision installers from the folder and just start the setup.exe in the decompressed driver folder. After the driver installation finished you can install PhysX and/or 3DVision without a problem. PhysX installations are incremental, meaning that you can just install the new version on top of the old one.
Also: should you not be able to get any temperature readings with the 19x.xx driver series use this fix posted by Unwinder:
Quote:
Problem background:
Since 190.xx series NVIDIA driver's internal resource manager is trying to precache thermal sensors information in the registry during the first startup after installation. This mechanism doesn't seem to work fine yet, under some conditions sensor detection and precaching algorithm can fail and store incorrect sensor type information in the registry causing temperatures to disappear till the ForceWare re-installation.
Temporary solution:
Until the problem is not fixed by NVIDIA, there are still some temporary tricks allowing to solve it. First, you may just perform complete Foreware re-install, this will also cause precached thermal sensor information to be removed from the registry and to be re-detected by ForceWare on the next start. Second, you may manually remove corrupted thermal sensor information from the registry and this way cause the ForceWare to re-detect it on the next reboot. To do it open regedit then search and delete all instances of RmThermalProviderInfo and RmThermalProviderNum entries in the registry. Then reboot.
In case you want to thoroughly get rid of previous driver remnants and Windows 7 keeps installing a previous driver version try this guide posted by Squall Leonhart:
Quote:
After seeing the amount of users who still have Windows install an older driver, after driver cleaning I figured I should write this up to guide people through a manual cleanup, as it seems DriverSweeper doesn't appear to get delete permissions for files in the driverstore folder.
1. You will need the Take Ownership reg tweak.
2. Once installed navigate to the Driverstore folder @ windows\System32\DriverStore
3. Use the search box to find nv_disp.inf folders
4. Right click the nv_disp.inf* folders and click Take Ownership.
5. Open up the folder's properties and on the Security tab, grant full access to your own account which is now added to the Folders permissions thanks to the take ownership tweak.
6. At this point the files themselves should report that the permissions can't be changed, just ignore your way through these until no more messages come up. (Cancel should also work as only the folder permissions really need to have the security set)
7. Delete the folder.
Repeat steps 4-7 for additional nv_disp.inf* folders
Note
* is a wildcard, it basically stands for any characters tht exist after the nv_disp.inf, for example, my current 192.62 driverstore backup is nv_disp.inf_amd64_neutral_8f92fb321d6d0ac3.