my screen was going black when installing the new 600 series drivers from nvidia so i just went to device manager like u said and it worked god its amazing how they have trouble with these drivers in windows...
Ok the way I got it to work is by doing that install, then going to computer -> properties -> device manager -> selecting my video card under display adapters-> then click update drivers -> then browse computer -> then finding where the extracted files are located (C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\285.62\WinVista_Win7_64\English\Display.Driver) then finishing it out. I guess something is wrong with the installer, not so much the drivers. Thumbs up if this worked so others can know.
@DoubleOBond When I do that, mine says "Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT. There is no driver selected for the device information set or element." -OR- "The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)" and it goes into a low resolution.
@DoubleOBond I just have to decide now if I want to copy the files over to another drive and format the XP-SP2-32bit drive and install XP-SP3-32bit or install 7-64bit or 32-bit. If I do 7-64, I can see if the problem was in fact the win7 install, but if I do XP, then I can still have access to WinXP if I need it. It's moving 400gigs of data to an external USB and the remaining 100gigs between some other drives... I'm not sure what I want to do yet.
@smelypenny yeah, it did that for me but then it just shows a low res, up to the limit that your native system can handle bios/ram/cpu. If your PC cannot handle windows 7 without a gpu then it may struggle running just with a 275. I hope you are ok now!
not helped he says:cannot continue the hardware update wizard the wizard could not find a better match for your hardware than the software you currently have installed Chose what you want to do: To keep current software,click Finish To search again in another location click Back HELP PLEASE
@DoubleOBond I am, I did some testing and I believe that it is actually a problem with windows7-64. I also booted to XP with drivers v191 everything worked fine, but I couldn't update because my "c" drive partition is 25mb as a boot partition and my WindowsXP partition is F: but the nvidia drivers store the files in a temp folder on C:\windows\Temp no matter what, so I couldn't update them. I used partition magic 8 to change the drive letters and it failed so XP is no longer bootable, LOL.
@@丷 I don't remember for certain what I did, but I can tell you what I would do today. If the problem is that you don't have enough free space to install the video card driver, you can uninstall all previous Nvidia drivers and see if there are any other files you can move to another hard drive or storage device to free up space. --- Another solution would be to buy a bigger hard drive and find a reputable free utility to clone your hard drive to the new larger hard drive and then either keep the old hard drive as a backup or wipe the old one and use it for storage. I personally would keep the old smaller hard drive as a backup, especially in the event you have bad luck and the new hard drive dies a few days later. If that happens, you can just plug in your older smaller hard drive and exchange it for another one and try again. However if you wipe the old hard drive and the new one dies, you will have to reinstall windows and setup all the drivers and everything again, which can be a pain and difficult, if the vendor decides to offer 20 different variations for each device driver and have only 1 (per hardware) work for your hardware (I've had this happen more than once, so it is common enough to avoid this situation if possible). --- If you want to rule out a corrupt download, there is info below. If you still have questions, feel free to ask. If you can't figure out HashTab, I can make a video, but it is straight forward and easy. One thing you can do to help troubleshoot a problem like this, is to get a free program called HashTab (By Implbits). This program lets you right click on a file and go to Properties and adds a tab that calculates the HASH of the file, such as MD5 Hash or better. There are a ton of available hashes it can calculate, however, you can look at any of them. With a hash, you typically can just look at the first number/letter to see if it matches. In my experience, if the first one matches, typically the whole hash will match (not always). If the first number/letter does not match then the hash is different. (although you can look at the whole hash string if you want) If the hash is different, then the file is corrupt or fake. Not all websites with downloads will give you a file Hash, but if it does, you can also copy/paste it into the HashTab to validate. If it matches you get a green checkmark. If it is correct, then this rules out the possibility of a corrupt or fake/malicious installer. A corrupted download is always a possibility. If you can't get a hash, you can ask a friend to download it and give you the hash from THEIR download and compare them. If it DOES match you will know the installer file is not the problem.
Had same problem was driving me crazy pardon the pun. But I solved it. downlaod the latest driver, and unpack it. It fail don't worry. Go into device manager and disable your display driver (mine is gtx 275) Go back into device manager and right clk on the now missing display driver and click update, then select manual, and direct the path to the c drive nvidea folder, this will fail, finally on dsply drvr right click, choose scan for hardware changes, congrats
