Nvidia Installer Failed, unable to install Geforce drivers... Options

[cohmoddersolo]

Hi guys,

I was trying to update my drivers to latest one, thats 301.42, but when I run installer, a few seconds in it shows "Nvidia Installer Failed". I tried downloading the Installer again a few times and tried Windows 7 Update certified Geforce drivers (on my pc now) to no avail. Windows Geforce drivers are pretty bad and dont have Nvidia control panel. GPU is a Gigabyte GTX 560 factory OC 1gb. I really dont want to reinstall Windows cause Ive got quite a few games and dont want to go through the hassle of installing each and every one of them. Also all the softwares I have. What do you guys think?

[cohmoddersolo]

I updated the GPU driver software through Device Manager and hey, its now working! I reseated the GPU before but I think that didn't help. I went into Device Manager, and under Display adapters my GPU was listed as a standard VGA driver. So I clicked Update Software Driver and Windows detected the GTX 560 and downloaded 295. something for me. I then updated it to the latest, 301.42 through Device Manager, manually pointing it to the driver extractor directory and here I am typing with latest driver installed! Previously before reseating the GPU, I went into device manager and the GTX 560 was listed as having a corrupted registry, so thats why I think the Nvidia installer was not detecting the GPU and failing. I think the registry was corrupted because when I had the 296.10 driver and was about to update to the latest, 301.42, I used Nvidia's Update Driver feature from the installer rather than removing the previous driver manually. Although the feature removed the previous driver automatically, something must've went wrong during the process or the automated uninstaller missed the registry entries. And now its gaming time! Thank you very much to those who've tried to help me with this issue. Much appreciated. Cheers!

This post has been edited by cohmoddersolo: Jun 15 2012, 05:33 PM