Geforce 6600 driver issues

[Zircor]

Tonight after work I made the (brilliant!) decision to upgrade to the new Nvidia 91.31 drivers as well as most recent Asus enhanced drivers/Smart Doctor for my Asus N6600 graphics card. After uninstalling the drivers and rebooting I am not able to boot back into Windows XP. It will go through the bootup process but on the screen where I would normally be able to choose which Windows profile to log in to it just stays on a black screen with a mouse cursor and no activity at all. I can boot into safe mode, remove, reinstall, remove the drivers as much as I want but if it's not safe mode it will not function. Short of a format/reinstall are there any suggestions as to what else I can try?

[AaManiac]

What are the specs of some of the other hardware you have....
Mainly:

Mother board Brand and Model
Processor Brand and Model
and the Maker of you 6600 and is it a GT,LE or just 6600?

-Maniac

[Kalos]

Have you tried removing the drivers, then not reinstalling? Try normal mode then. Hopefully someone's cached the old drivers for you. General rule of thumb, nobody's going to release performance enhancing drivers for a three year old graphics card design. They won't boost performance. You should only update your drivers if there are current issues, else more than likely you just create problems. Modern drivers infact reduce the FPS on my FX 5700; absolutely pointless, unless I'm troubleshooting, and I know there's going to be some form of improvement somehow, I wouldn't for older parts.

Old programming should go with older parts, new drivers are optimised for newer cards. Take the original release date of the card, add eight months, look for drivers around that date. That's usually the sweet spot where it should work well with that particular peice of hardware. Newer isn't always better, dispite the popular belief to the contrary.

[Clavina]

Assuming you have windows XP you could also try a driver rollback or a system restore.