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    Pulling my hair trying the install Nvidia driver...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Ayle, Jan 1, 2010.

  1. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    Hey guy, happy new year. I'm having some serious troubles trying to install the 186.81. Nothing seems to work. Regular install says the it complete successfully when in fact it has not installed anything. And the have disk method fails and give me the message "specified file not found". I've tried redownloading the driver a dozen time to no avail. I need to install the 186.81 because SF4 doesn't want to run with the 195.62 and when I tried the 195.81 broke Burnout Paradise(crash at startup). The 195.62 and 195.81 and also any moded driver over the 186.82 install fine... What am I doing wrong? I've use driver sweeper and regedit to remove any trace of NV software between the installs but that didn't solve my problem.
     
    Ayle, Jan 1, 2010
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  2. OneCool

    OneCool I AM NUMBER 67

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    You can get in alot of trouble running driver cleaners and reg editors if you dont do it right.Possibly screw up your Windows install all together.You can try going to the device manager and just point it to where you extracted the driver to and install just the driver itself reboot and install the rest.

    If that dont work.

    If your sure about running driver cleaners try running it in safe mode.
     
    OneCool, Jan 1, 2010
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  3. Ayle

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    I already did all that. And that's why I'm posting here.
     
    Ayle, Jan 1, 2010
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  4. OneCool

    OneCool I AM NUMBER 67

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    So im guessing you tried downloading from a different location?
     
    OneCool, Jan 1, 2010
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    Download driver from nvidia.com, uninstall display adapter from device manager, reboot, run executable file you downloaded from nvidia, reboot.
     
    sublime313, Jan 2, 2010
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    just helped someone else out with this and it worked.

    Clikety Click
     
    MrDJ, Jan 2, 2010
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  7. Ayle

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    That didn't work. I guess the 186.81 and my laptop are divorced for good... :/
     
    Ayle, Jan 2, 2010
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