Rolling back Display drivers broke my Internet

Naeco06 · 07-18-2008, 11:01 AM

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 the page. As soon as I try to load any page it just says it cannot find anything. It can't even see that a connection exists.

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.

07-18-2008, 11:01 AM	#1 (permalink)
Naeco06 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP	Rolling back Display drivers broke my Internet 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 the page. As soon as I try to load any page it just says it cannot find anything. It can't even see that a connection exists. 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.