Detonator 3 Drivers

[comprower]

I have a GeForce 256 in a Dell system. After I wiped my hard drive after a corrupted registry, the Dell technician who was helping me reinstall my drivers told me that I could only use the Video card drivers from their support website because the reference drivers have different specs than the OEM drivers they have. I installed the Det 6.50 before and they told me that this was probably on eof the reasons why my registry became corrupted. When I called again, the technician told me that the Det 3 drivers should work fine. I listened to him and installed the 12.41, but I don't know what it will do to my system, registry, etc. Should I uninstall those drivers and put the DELL drivers in? Or am i fine with the Det 3 12.41?
My comp:
DELL PIII 866
Win 98 SE
128 MB RDRAM 600
NVIDIA GeForce 256
Soundblaster Live! Value Digital

[PJPilate]

Bull....

Nvidia releases the reference drivers for other OEMs to build their drivers on. Thats why they are the reference drivers. I've used dell machines with the ol' TNT M64 cards in them (2 at a time) with dual monitors and its worked fine. As for registry corruption, I doubt that video card drivers are the reason.

My advice, go with the reference drivers. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[comprower]

Thanks I guess I'll just keep the 12.41 Det 3 drivers in my machine then <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

[Snommis69]

Originally posted by PJPilate:
<STRONG>Bull....

Nvidia releases the reference drivers for other OEMs to build their drivers on. Thats why they are the reference drivers. I've used dell machines with the ol' TNT M64 cards in them (2 at a time) with dual monitors and its worked fine. As for registry corruption, I doubt that video card drivers are the reason.

My advice, go with the reference drivers. <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"></STRONG>

Agreed. Just remember, any software doodads packaged from the manufacturer may or may not work properly. Personally, I hate most of that stuff anyway.