nVidia Graphic Driver not installing(?)

[Aegoris]

Hello
I had my brother go through and uninstall a bunch of programs i didn't need yesterday. One of the things he uninstalled was the "nVidia Drivers," as it appeared on the Add / Remove Programs list. He did this because I had random lines appearing on various things like Icons, Pictures, Web Browsers, etc. and it was really annoying. He was going to reinstall the nVidia driver but after running the installation, it said the system was unmodified, and there appeared to be no effect. However, nVidia driver came back to the Add / Remove Programs list...

My internet browser is slow and glitchy when scrolling but there are no more lines. In the Device Manager, it says that there is an exclamation point inside a yellow triangle next the VGA Controller and when i start up windows a pop-up from the task bar saying New Hardware Found (or something like that), but when i run it, i says there was incorrect parameters...

*EDIT* the nVidia driver i'm trying to install is for the nVidia GeForce 6200 and the installer is 182.50... i hope thats relevant :P

here is my computer information from Belarc Advisor:

OS:
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)

No model (custom built)

Processor:
1.25 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Main Circuit Board:
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V8X-X REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1013 09/02/2004

Drives:
81.95 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
37.27 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SanDisk Cruzer USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1312 [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Maxtor 6Y080L0 [Hard drive] (81.96 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y2M96CKE, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy
SanDisk Cruzer USB Device (8.03 GB) -- drive 1

Display:
Video Controller (VGA Compatible) [Display adapter]

Multimedia:
SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
Standard Game Port

Controllers:
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller

[bookworm]

Originally Posted by Aegoris

Hello
I had my brother go through and uninstall a bunch of programs i didn't need yesterday. One of the things he uninstalled was the "nVidia Drivers," as it appeared on the Add / Remove Programs list. He did this because I had random lines appearing on various things like Icons, Pictures, Web Browsers, etc. and it was really annoying. He was going to reinstall the nVidia driver but after running the installation, it said the system was unmodified, and there appeared to be no effect. However, nVidia driver came back to the Add / Remove Programs list...

My internet browser is slow and glitchy when scrolling but there are no more lines. In the Device Manager, it says that there is an exclamation point inside a yellow triangle next the VGA Controller and when i start up windows a pop-up from the task bar saying New Hardware Found (or something like that), but when i run it, i says there was incorrect parameters...

*EDIT* the nVidia driver i'm trying to install is for the nVidia GeForce 6200 and the installer is 182.50... i hope thats relevant :P

here is my computer information from Belarc Advisor:

OS:
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 (build 2600)

No model (custom built)

Processor:
1.25 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache

Main Circuit Board:
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7V8X-X REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 100 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ASUS A7V8X-X ACPI BIOS Revision 1013 09/02/2004

Drives:
81.95 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
37.27 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SanDisk Cruzer USB Device [CD-ROM drive]
TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1312 [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Maxtor 6Y080L0 [Hard drive] (81.96 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y2M96CKE, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy
SanDisk Cruzer USB Device (8.03 GB) -- drive 1

Display:
Video Controller (VGA Compatible) [Display adapter]

Multimedia:
SoundMAX Integrated Digital Audio
Standard Game Port

Controllers:
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller

Look at this at the Nvidia forum, the 182.50 seems to be causeing lots of problems, and suggestion is to use an older driver, look at Thothie's post

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=33