NVIDIA nforce networking controller

[All Seeing Eye]

My sis in law has bought a computer off her father (it's a pretty shit computer and she could have got a new one for the money she paid) but anyway...........
She's had Virgin internet put on but it wont connect because the NVIDIA nforce networking controller has a yellow exclamation mark next to it and it says it may be corrupted.

I tried uninstalling the driver to try and put it back on from the CD but when I do a hardware search it detects the NVIDIA nforce networking controller and automatically reinstalls the driver without even asking me to insert the disc.
I'm not a computer expert but I was under the impression that by uninstalling the driver I would need to put in the CD to reinstall the driver and yet it reinstalls itself!!! Why is that?

I tried falling back to a previous driver but it hasn't had any previous drivers. I've just downloaded a newer driver version and i'm going to try it next time I go down but does anyone have any idea why it might be saying it's corrupted? any idea why it reinstalls the driver without me inserting the disc?

 

[Scout101]

Windows has its own driver database that it defaults to, unless you give it something else. Since you're telling it to not associate with that hardware anymore, and then telling it to basically just reload the same driver, not sure how you expect different results.

Put the new driver on, and then run that file.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Since you're telling it to not associate with that hardware anymore, and then telling it to basically just reload the same driver, not sure how you expect different results.

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I'm not a computer expert

Thus the reason why i'm asking the question.

I wasn't asking it to reload the same driver automatically, I was attempting to locate the hardware, i'm used to it coming up with a question mark to say it has no driver and therefore requires one adding. This is the first time i've done this and a driver has loaded itself.
If the driver that automatically reloads on itself is corrupted then I need to be able to put a fresh one on from the disc which I can't do because it reloads itself before I have chance.

The only other option it gives is to update the driver which is why i've downloaded at newer driver to give it a try that way.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Install latest OS service pack and updates. (some need SP2+)
Download latest drivers. RTFM.
Go to device manager and remove the device.
Reboot.

If the drivers unpack to discrete files ina subdir, point the new hardware detection routine to the folder in which you downloaded the thing.

If the drivers are a monolithic install (ie run from exe) then cancel the hardware detection, then run the installer.

If this fails I suppose you could hurl llamas at the thing at incredible velocity. Wouldn't fix it but you might wind up on TV.

 

[Brolan]

Download the newset drivers from the NVIDIA website. Use the provided NVIDIA installer. Don't screw around with Windows' auto-update.

 

[Deks]

I would also recommend you go to Nvidia webpage and download the drivers directly from there, thus install the thing via it's own installer.

Usually drivers at certain points in time need to be updated if something is messed up, and the best way to go about it is to go to the manufacturers website and download the most recent version of the drivers in question.