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Old 08-29-2006, 01:59 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by bysmitty
It is best practice to remove the old drivers before installing new ones. Just uninstall the drivers using add/remove programs. It is a good idea to use a program like driver clean afterwards to get all the extra files left behind too. All that being said, it is not that big of a deal to apply the new drivers directly over old ones. Neither way is really wrong but one way is more thorough than the other.
Thanks for the link, and as a matter of fact, it seems to be a big deal as I found out just a few hours ago; switching from the 2 years old W1zzard ATI drivers to recent Omega resulted in a BSOD on startup.
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