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    Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 6:39pm
There is a new driver for my nforce 790i mobo and my question is when installing the latest driver for a mobo do you do it as if it was a gpu driver( uninstall the old one, restart run driver sweeper in safe mode restart then install the new one) or install over the old driver????
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uninstall old drivers, reboot, install new drivers, reboot.

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Thanks DST. I thought so. Nvidia website says to install over the top of the old one unless you have issues with it then do just like you said to reinstall.
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MY pleasure

If Nvidia says you can install them right over the other one then go ahead, my version is what you would call a clean install, but if its not necessary you can go ahead and install over the old one

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Posts: 448 		  Quote Daygn Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 21 Mar 2009 at 8:20pm
but honistly when has it ever been a good thing to install one driver over another?? They also say it could cause issues if you doBig%20smile 
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Posts: 36758 		  Quote DST4ME Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 21 Mar 2009 at 8:32pm
well it all depends on the quality of the installer to be honest with you, if the programmer made a good installer that overwrites the files correctly and removes the old keys/files, then there is nothing wrong with that, but most times the installer sucks and does not clean up and replace correctly.

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Just my two cents, I've never had to uninstall an Nvidia driver to reinstall a new one.  I've always installed over the old one and never had issues.  The Nvidia installer installs fine.  I do run a Reg clean after install, however.

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