[Naeco06]

I was troubleshooting a game and working with different (well, older) versions of my display drivers. Particularly for nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS.

Once the rollback didn't work for fixing the issue ingame I just went ahead and reinstalled the latest driver. Now don't get me wrong, I know how this works. Before installing the "new" drivers (older versions) I made sure to uninstall the current and used a small program someone suggested to me called Driver Sweeper or something. This ensures extraneous files are cleaned up.
Regardless, I was just trying to do it right: uninstall current drivers before installing new ones.

However once I got back to the latest driver I found my internet doesn't work at all. The browser comes up and doesn't even attempt to load any page. As soon as I try to load any page it just says it cannot find anything.

I'm no expert, but why on earth should playing around with my display drivers have anything to do with my access to the internet? It's like nVidia took the liberty of wiping out some basic component which finds my web connection when uninstalling drivers.

Any ideas? Could that program have removed something it shouldn't? It's just weird, I was only dealing with display. How does this interfere with my internet? Freakin PC's.... I'm running an HP with XP Media Center still on service pack 2. If you need any more info/specs lemme know.
Thanks.

[Mak213]

Hello,

I would not blame this on nVidia. Who says you installed the right drivers or that there is not another error on your system that only became present when you restart with a OLD and OUTDATED set of drivers installed. How do you know that this error wasnt fixed with the newer set you had just uninstalled? That is why new drivers are released.

To blame them for something like this is obserd. Maybe when you ran Driver Sweeper or whatever it was you removed something you should not have? That is why many people recommend Driver Cleaner Pro cause you select the driver you want to remove. You do not let the program do it for you.

Driver Cleaner Professional download from Guru3D.com

Run that to clean out your drivers. Get the latest Driver for the 8600GTS from the nVidia site. Then reinstall your Network Driver. Everything should then work as expected.

Cheers,
Mak

[lazer_viking]

My personal opinion is that you inadvertantly uninstalled or modified an nForce driver that controls your network interface. Yes, Nvidia makes network drivers too. Like Mak213 said, try reinstalling the latest nForce drivers (assuming you have an Nvidia chipset) along with the latest Geforce ones.