Comments on: Nvidia Driver Issue with Windows Home Server

By: Yak

Yak — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:41:59 +0000

The first two links in my previous post that don’t appear to work are properly linked to from in the wegotserved forum post.

Alternatively if you use the search term

brad rutkowski + rdpdd.dll failed to load

in google it is the first link found. In Brad’s Server 2003 blog post there is a link to the nVidia post.

By: Yak

Yak — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:19:38 +0000

I also had the same problems following the Jan 09 WHS updates.

I found a work around using a registry entry from here;

http://blogs.technet.com/brad_rutkowski/ar…ed-to-load.aspx

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtop…sktop&st=60

Incidentally, when I removed the registry edit and upgraded my nVidia drivers to the latest version, the registry modification also appeared on my WHS.

Have documented more fully the steps I took here

http://forum.wegotserved.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=6162

By: Aonsaithya

Aonsaithya — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:11:17 +0000

Thank you! This confirmed what I feared. I managed to install the 180.84 drivers, but after a reboot I realised that my 6200 is no longer working. I have both a 8800GTS for my dual monitors and a 6200 for a HDTV connected to this PC. I tried reinstalling, and realised that it does not even try installing the drivers for the 6200.
I uninstalled the devices in device manager, then used Driver Cleaner Pro (a very good program) to sweep away the leftovers. After that I unplugged the ethernet cable, rebooted into Windows, DISABLED ANTIVIRUS (important, I’ve gotten corrupted driver installations otherwise), then installed 178.24.
I suppose I’ll be stuck with these drivers, then.

By: Sam Sneed

Sam Sneed — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:19:20 +0000

THANK YOU! I was pulling my hair out over this. I rolled back to the Windows standard VGA driver, downloaded 175.19 and all is good again. THANK YOU!

By: john

john — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:26:42 +0000

i’ve actualy done a clean install of whs…and i couldn’t figure out why i couldn’t access whs via remote desktop.

i didn’t do a rollback, i’ve just downloaded and installed the 175 version. its not the best and cleanest way to do it but it worked…

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:52:58 +0000

John, as I noted in my article… that doesn’t appear to work (but, I’m not telling you not to try). Rolling back the driver doesn’t fix the issue.

I haven’t had a lot of time to work on it, but it may be that the latest ForceWare driver adds DLLs which aren’t in prior versions… and the presence of those DLLs is causing the problem.

By: john

john — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:52:47 +0000

i’ve installed older drivers from nvidia and it works again…

thanks for that info.(i was going nuts trying to understand what was going wrong…)

By: john

john — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:56:34 +0000

this would explain why i can’t acces my home server any more via remote desktop….

i’ll dl the previous drivers asap.

thanks for that info.

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:48:48 +0000

Just to clarify the “testing” aspect.

NVIDIA instructs Windows Server 2003 x86 users (that includes Windows Home Server) to use the Windows XP version of their ForceWare drivers.

NVIDIA only maintains separate drivers for Windows Server 2003 x64 edition.

While 180.48 is now out, it does not provide support for older GPUs (like the GeForce 6200), leaving 178.24 the latest for many.