Uninstall nvidia drivers

Recently, every time I start my iMac I get a prompt that nVidia Cuda driver needs to be update. I have an AMD card so I never did the update and I was not sure why it was prompting me. Then I updated to the newest version of After Effects. When I started After Effects in now made reference that until nVidia was updated it would use CPU instead of GPU. I used After Effects for a few days and all was well. Then I made the mistake of thinking maybe there was something that need to be updated. I updated the Cuda driver. Now After Effects crashes on start up. From web searches it looks like the problem is After Effects now trying to recognize nVidia card. But I do not have an nVidia card, I have AMD. I would like to remove the nVidia Cuda driver and anything related to it so After Effects can go back to recognizing the ADM card.
Can anyone tell me how to remove the nVidia stuff or has someone run into this same problem and is there another solution.
Thank you for your help and input.

Hello All,
Thank you very much for your input. The issue is resolved.
I searched the system for files with the name CUDA and nVidia. Each time I found some. Through them away, restarted and and tested. It took multiple times of doing this. For some reason my search did not find the CUDA in the Framework folder. I specifically went to that folder and found the file. I guess that was the last file because after throwing it away After Effects was back up.
I really appreciate every one taking time to help.
Thank you.

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Hi,
I make this post as I found a way to solve my issue and this could be interesting to other people:
1. Download the latest nvidia drivers (285.38) on nvidia website: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?
2. Launch the .exe it will unpack the package in one folder: most likely NVIDIA/DisplayDriver/285.38/WinVista_Win7/International
3. Your installation will be cancelled through "hardware not compatible" - no worries you still have the unpacked stuff.
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Mar 18 11:46:47 dev1 acpid: client 5140[0:201] has disconnected
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