Preventing winxp native drivers from installing

[shifty]

How do I prevent a native driver from windows xp from installing.If I put a Sound Blaster Live 5.1 in a pci slot,on boot up XP loads it's own native driver.Same with a gforce video card.So how do I adjust XP not to load a driver or at least prompt me before loading it.Thanks

[amose]

right click my computer.
choose properties>hardware>device manager.
choose your device and click it twice to open.
select driver>update driver.
and then follow the wizard to install the driver you have.
after doing that windows will use youe new driver you installed.

[shifty]

What about when installing a driver from a downloaded file.Do you uninstall the old driver then click the new file to start the installation?Say you download the latest graphics driver from Nvidia.Uninstall the old driver in the device manager and it tells you to reboot to finish the uninstall and then when it reboots it just reloads the old driver.What would be the procedure here?Thanks

[Pounder]

go to update driver ,when get to the have disk window point to the file you downloaded

[Markoman01027]

Originally Posted by shifty What about when installing a driver from a downloaded file.Do you uninstall the old driver then click the new file to start the installation?Say you download the latest graphics driver from Nvidia.Uninstall the old driver in the device manager and it tells you to reboot to finish the uninstall and then when it reboots it just reloads the old driver.What would be the procedure here?Thanks

Windows will just recognize the video card and install it's own set of drivers. Your best bet is to just update the video card drivers within Windows. I did not know this happens with XP. I do run a NVIDIA video card and Windows 2000, and I can run standard VGA if I cancel "Found new hardware" on startup when I remove the drivers via device manager or add/remove programs.

[shifty]

In win XP the new hardware wizzard doesn't come up,XP just loads the native driver automatically.That's the problem.There must be some setting to change this somewhere.If you go to Contol panel>Administrative tools>computer management>Services and applications and click on services and scroll down to Plug and play,right click on it and a window opens and it appears you can change it from there by switching from automatic to manual but I'm not sure.Maybe someone can shed some light on this.Thanks