# Manually install Detonator XP drivers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 4, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309 "2001-10-04T02:21:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309/1 "2001-10-04T02:21:15Z")
How the heck would you do this? I can only find that infuriating self-expanding EXE file. I need to manually install the drivers because my computer keeps installing TNT2 Pro drivers when I own a TNT2 Ultra. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309/2 "2001-10-04T05:11:17Z")
C’mon there must be some way. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309/3 "2001-10-04T06:25:38Z")
it appears that the drivers are only offered as a self extracting installer. Sense the driver files themselves are not actually extracted I cannot hazard a guess on how to manually install them… The only thing I can think of is install them (the drivers)on another system that way they will then live in the C:/windows/system directory. then you can copy them to the HDD in the system in question and install them manually. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309/4 "2001-10-04T12:31:53Z")
Are you sure there’s a difference between the Ultra and Pro drivers? I wouldn’t have expected so, I think that the chips are nearly identical, one just runs faster. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309/5 "2001-10-04T12:58:59Z")
Believe it or not, I believe I actually managed to open the self-extracting .exe with Winzip. (That is, fire up Winzip, choose “open file” and open up the self-extractor from there). It seems to work in a relatively large percentage of self-extractors. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309/6 "2001-10-04T14:43:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Revtim \* > \*\*Are you sure there’s a difference between the Ultra and Pro drivers? I wouldn’t have expected so, I think that the chips are nearly identical, one just runs faster. \*\* Nvidia makes what is called a unified driver – same software for all their chip sets. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309/7 "2001-10-04T17:07:15Z")
So, then **Muad’Dib** is all set, right? Do you agree **kinoons**? ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309/8 "2001-10-04T17:13:51Z")
Doh. Didn’t read the OP. The Tnt2 Ultra and Pro are both just pretty much the same card–the Pro came out a year or two after the Ultra and was aimed at the value market. Both run at roughly the same speed. I might be wrong, but I think the Pro also uses a smaller die (say .17 instead of .22 or whatever). Any driver that a tnt2u will run under will also work with a 'pro, more or less. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309/9 "2001-10-04T23:45:15Z")
Well I’ll be damned. You **can** use third-party decompression software to decompress self-extracting files. I feel like a dummy for never even considering that before. Well I decompressed the file easily and installed the correct drivers. Thank you very much guys, I appreciate the help. ---
**Author:** ![kinoons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a698b9/32.png) [@kinoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kinoons)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2001, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manually-install-detonator-xp-drivers/85309/10 "2001-10-05T05:34:10Z")
so if you can actually get the driver files out here is what I do if I need to get a corrupted video driver out of a system. 1. boot to safe mode 2. set the display adapter to standard vga a) open the display properties b) settings tab c) advanvced button d) adapter tab e) change – follow the wizard choosing to select from a list and then choose the standard adapter 3. close to the desktop – do not reboot 4. search the hard drive for all the video driver files and delete them 5. open regedit (start, run, regedit) 6. search the windows reg for all references to the video driver files and delete them (if you screw this up boot to dos and run scanreg /restore) 7. reboot, install the video driver