Newer nVidia drivers cannot be installed if they have been slipstreame

[deipotent]

I slipstreamed nVidia 162.18 drivers onto XP Pro x64 SP2, and then used the ISO to install Windows. However, I then tried to update the nVidia drivers to 163.75 from within Windows, by running the nVidia installer. It all seemed to go OK, but after the reboot I was informed the control panel applet version did not match (ie. the driver version).

I could carry on using Windows OK, but could not use the nVidia control panel applets due to version mis-match.

[deipotent]

I've had a look at the nVidia site and it looks like the control panel was updated from 162.18 to 163.71, so this might be the problem.

[PlayStation]

before installing newer nVidia driver you MUST uninstall previous. Or try using right-click\update driver in device manager.