Here's the situation. Running Vista Home Premium, connecting to my network wirelessly with a Netgear USB wireless adapter. I'm doing my thing, and a little message pops up saying the system needs to download a new Nvidia driver. I click OK, thinking it has something to do with my video card, and once it's downloaded, I lose all internet connectivity.

Now, my adapter can't even see my network (or any networks in the area, for that matter) and I have some Nvidia network driver on my system for some reason. Anyone have any experience with this? I've tried removing the driver, and it just immediately reinstalls itself?

TIA

Re: Nvidia drivers and network connectivity -- HELP

spyware?

Re: Nvidia drivers and network connectivity -- HELP

well, if it is, the joke is on it, because without an internet connection, it's not spying on anything... :lol:

Re: Nvidia drivers and network connectivity -- HELP

seriously, why would nVidia be installing a network driver on my system?

Re: Nvidia drivers and network connectivity -- HELP

cant' say for sure, if it was for your video card, go into hardware properties and restore the original driver (there's a button for it buried somewhere) and see if it restores your network connection.

Re: Nvidia drivers and network connectivity -- HELP

I'll give it a whirl. Thx

Re: Nvidia drivers and network connectivity -- HELP

ended up just uninstalling and reinstalling the netgear adapter driver and I'm up and running again...

Re: Nvidia drivers and network connectivity -- HELP

weird, but as long as its up and running, guess nothing to do. If it does popup again, perhaps poke around it some more to see where the incoming link is from etc.