Solved Latest NVIDIA drivers (296.10) installation fails.

Hey there;

Am I the only one who can't gets this install to work? I've tried every which way I can think of - express, custom, clean - and nothing seems to work. I don't know if it's the update part or what, but the thing just won't install at all.

Any suggestions?

Are you trying to use NVIDIA's own driver instead of that provided by MSI?

A quick look at MSI support reveals their latest version available for your setup is version 258.96.

Perhaps you should be using that driver instead?

MSI Global ? Download Center

1 Suggestion

1. Uninstall any video drivers, reboot and let windows install the video drivers, then reboot.

Let us know if that works.

seavixen32 said:

Are you trying to use NVIDIA's own driver instead of that provided by MSI?

A quick look at MSI support reveals their latest version available for your setup is version 258.96.

Perhaps you should be using that driver instead?

MSI Global ? Download Center

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Microsoft Update downloaded and installed 275.33 with no problems, and the install disk came with 266.77. I have had this problem with nVIDIA before, just can't remember the fix.

AddRAM, won't that solution simply reinstall the 275.33 driver package? If so, I just might be back to square one.

query: would using Driver Sweeper be of any help? Theoretically, I should be able to upgrade the drivers as long as it supports my card; and cruising the Web I've found I'm not alone with this problem.

Have a look here where you can give feedback to NVIDIA and possibly get support for your particular problem.

Official WHQL NVIDIA 296.10 Display Driver Feedback Thread For NVIDIA Geforce Desktop/Notebook/ION GPUs Released - NVIDIA Forums

RJsDad, go to the nvidia site and dowload and install their driver, I have just checked and it is a go. I have updated to 296 my self so I know it works, the new version will auto matically remove any old driver first

Never let windows update install drivers for anything, especially for nvidia/amd/creative/wd mybook's. They are an absolute pain to remove and seem to destroy any system I've seen people install them on (x1000 for creative).
For now uninstall the drivers and if that still doesn't work try something like guru3d driver sweeper. Next option is a restore point. The drivers do install and work fine

Scipio, if you read the opening post in the thread you'll see that the OP has tried to install the latest driver and it fails, which is the reason the thread was started in the first place.

Also, the new driver will only uninstall the old one if you choose the Custom option.

What happens, do you get an error message? There is a "clean install" option, if you check that it will remove any old drivers and profiles. I just installed 296.10 on my GT 220. I installed the previous version first and rebooted. Install went fine. I haven't had any problems that I know of, but I haven't tried to play any games yet either.

EDIT: ops, looks like you already tried the clen install option.

To All Who Kindly Replied;

I FIXED IT!!!! It wasn't easy, but I finally got everything worthwhile installed......

First, I had to totally remove the old 275.33 package and stripped my display driver to bare bones - basic VGA only.

Then I opened Device Manager, looked for the display adapter (had a little yellow "!"), clicked on update driver, pointed Windows to C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\yada-yada-yada\Display.Driver and Windows did the rest.

Did a restart, opened the setup.exe in the above mentioned folder and voila! The 296.10 drivers were installed and working fine.

After that, I did a separate install of PhysX & 3DVision (if you try to do a custom install with just those 2, it screws everything up all over again) - and I have everything but the 3DVision Controller Driver and the HD Audio Driver; neither of which I use anyway.

I may have taken a couple of extra steps here and there, but now I know what to do if it ever happens again. I imagine that if I did an express install, I'd have it all in place - but now that I have it working, I'd rather not chance messing it up again!

Once again, many thanks to all of you who had the courtesy to pitch in and offer your help and advice!!!!

Well, I'm delighted to hear it.

Thanks for posting what I've no doubt will be useful information in the future for others with a similar problem.

I'm pleased to be able to rep you for not giving up!

help

i HAVE an msi cx640 and i change the windows due to a virus, i put the same one, windows 7 home edition 64 bit, and i cand instal nvidia gt 520m ..

Itryied many driver from here NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search , but all say instalation faild..case they dont find the driver?

what to do? send it back to manufacter?

alyyn2045 said:

help

i HAVE an msi cx640 and i change the windows due to a virus, i put the same one, windows 7 home edition 64 bit, and i cand instal nvidia gt 520m ..

Itryied many driver from here NVIDIA Driver Downloads - Advanced Search , but all say instalation faild..case they dont find the driver?

what to do? send it back to manufacter?

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Welcome to SevenForums alyyn

If you don't mine, can you make a new thread for your concern and avoid mislead of the problem.

A Great Strongarmed Solution

I found an easy solution which should be quite universal, even if you dont have Win2000, this should help you if the CPL doesnt install at all. I attempted installing the drivers labled 190.62_desktop_winxp_32bit_english_whql (i chose an 'old' version because i hoped for it to be compatible) it found i had W2K and installed compatible drivers, but didnt install the CPL. running the msi by itself gave the error "Setup failed to read the required Display Driver to be used with this package. Setup will not continue" when i ran the MSI file.... could have been W2K or it saw the X700 i have in the 1x slot beside the Nvidia card. some people suggested completely uninstalling and reinstalling (i upgraded from NVIDIA94.24_forceware_winxp_english_whql which is the one recommended for W2K, but it crashes if i move playing video between screens - except if i do it slow). after this it then asked for two files at reboot, one being the CPL (good). trying to hack the MSI with orca didnt work (orca is probably too old i guess) so after some searching i decided to extract the MSI.

first, run the MSI file that you see in the install DIR, and copy the MSI file from the "local settings\temp" directory (look for random characters like {925BE668-2...) to another, and exit the current setup. then do the following to extract it:

C:\Documents and Settings\User1>msiexec /a "C:\Documents and Settings\User
1\Local Settings\Temp\NVIDIA Control Panel.msi" /qb TARGETDIR="C:\Documents and Settings\User1\My Documents\New Folder"

in "new folder" i find: Nvidia control panel.msi (2.56Mb), and System32 and Windows folders.

copy the files from the folders into the respective locations (system32 and help), and viola! i get the cpl in the monitor advanced properties.

it still does crash the player if i move it very fast but i dont do that often.

edit: i can't use dual view - i am positive that W2k dislikes the dualview 'display adapter', maybe a newer version would help.... in the meantime Horizontal span will do. the error is "The Currently selected graphics driver can not be used. It was written for a previous version of Windows, and is no longer compatible with this version of Windows..." referring to the Nvidia Dualview adapter.

edit2: source is http://superuser.com/questions/307678/how-to-extract-files-from-msi-package and also states that you will need an elevated command prompt (run as admin), in newer windows versions.

Charlie.