Driver Sweeper over swept

Hi all,

I became aware yesterday that the Nvidia 320.18 set of drivers kill graphics cards, so I wanted to clean uninstall those. Note that this was my first time doing a clean sweep, whereas I would usually just remove software via the control panel.

While using Driver Sweeper, I noticed a check box for Nvidia chipset, which puzzled me as the Alienware M11x uses an Intel mobo... Having wanting a clean uninstall, I removed those anyways. Most were registry, and one of them was an actual file; most carried the file name nvraid, while the rest nvstor or something like that. I only came to realize that performing that action was a horrible mistake after I did a quick google search, I don't know why I was so stupid as to not google the question first.

Anyways, I did a system restore, and I am wondering if that would restore files which Driver Sweeper removes, and if so, would those files be corrupted or would they function flawlessly as if they had not been meddled with in the first place?


Thanks!

 

at work so quick reply.
did you do the manual install in safe mode.
ive been using driver sweeper,driver cleaner pro and also cc cleaner and each software finds different nvidia crap left behind.
when i got my clevo last year and updated to the latest whql it messed a lot of my software up. benchmarks kept crashing etc.
as the original driver was an oem release it wasnt available to the general public.
i tried 3 other previous drivers all in safe mode clean and none worked.
i then done a system restore and luckily everything was back to normal so you could be in luck.

there has been reports that the latest whql (another beta released since 2 days ago) could kill older cards and if you are running a gt540 then its not worth the risk as im not sure what they actually class as older cards.

did you get a driver cd with your laptop. the oem driver should be on there.
if not contact dell support and see if they will send you it by zip.

heres a list of the last 10-15 drivers NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search

gota rush now.

 

You don't actually need to sweep the nVidia drivers. Just check clean installation and move on with it.

System restore has shadow copies of critical files. Unless there was direct interference with those files, they should work flawlessly.