Why is nothing to do with PCs ever easy?

I went to uninstall the Nvidia graphics card drivers on a PC in my cube, and when it was done, discovered that the PC had an Nvidia motherboard, so it had uninstalled all the drivers for everything.
Since when does a graphics card manufacturer start making motherboards?
That's a really nice gotcha, Mr Nvidia. Especially for people used to installing and uninstalling graphics card drivers.

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banjarconverto said…
I'm sorry to blow your bubble,but NVidia has been making NForce motherboard for a few years. Now they are at NForce4 already (4th generation).

If I'm not mistaken, whenever you want to uninstall NVidia graphics drivers on an NVidia mobo, a popup window will come out, asking whether you want to uninstall display, IDE, or network driver. I was surprised at first, but then I realised that NVidia has an incorporated single uninstaller for any NVidia components, although you click on a specific Nvidia driver uninstaller, just like in your case.

I rant about NVidia a few times in my blog too. However, they do have a solid products anyway :)
03:23
Chris said…
However, they do have a solid products anyway

Amen to that. Not like that ATi shit.
08:55
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