Install Failure of Nvidia Drivers

I've been attempting to install the drivers for my new Nvidia GTX 460 today and haven't had any luck. Every time I run the installer it ends partway through the installation with the message: NVIDIA Installer failed
NVIDIA Update -Not Installed
PhysX System Software -Not Installed
3D Vision Controller Driver -Not Installed
HD Audio Driver -Not Installed
NVIDIA Control Panel -Failed
Graphics Driver -Failed
3D Vision Driver -Not Installed

I've scoured the Nvidia forums and these forums as well and haven't had any luck with the fixes I've found.
Things I've tried :
- Many different versions of the driver... Same result
- Uninstalling old drivers, booting into safemode, using Driver Sweeper and attempting to install... Same Result
-Performed a clean boot and then installed... Same
-I have also installed manually through the windows update by navigating to the source files of the driver. Here the result is different; it tells me that the driver was installed successfully, but upon restarting as prompted, it reverts back to the Standard VGA Adaptor.

I've never had this problem before and didn't with my last card which was a NVIDIA 9800GTX.
If I attempt to auto update the driver through the control panel it does recognize my card and downloads and update, but after attempting to install it gives the message, "There is no driver selected for the device information set of element."

TL;DR- Drivers just won't INSTALL! 6 hours and counting. Please help me =)

Download and install the free version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, let it run the update then do a FULL scan. If MBAM doesn't find anything, open an Administrative Command Prompt and enter "sfc /verifyonly" (without quotes). Report back what the return message says.

MBAM

Here's how to View attachment Nvidia.pdf

Hope I'm wrong but this,

- Uninstalling old drivers, booting into safemode, using Driver Sweeper and attempting to install... Same Result

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could likely be the cause of the problem. Doesn't happen often, but occasionally Driver Sweeper will remove more than it should in the way of system files that are required for video drivers to install (can happen with both Nvidia and AMD drivers). If that is what it is, unless you have a backup image (System Restore rarely works for this) from before running Driver Sweeper (no idea how well its built in backup works) the only fix I know of is to re-install Windows to get things to work properly.

Why bother with anything to remove old drivers, Windows can do it. Uninstall before updating them.

I did what you asked Carwiz and when I ran the command it gave me this message after completing: "Windows Resource Protection found integrity violations." Says details are included in the CBS.log- all of which is another language to me.

Roderunner said:

Why bother with anything to remove old drivers, Windows can do it. Uninstall before updating them.

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Well at first I didn't try to do anything except for a regular install process, both with nvidia drivers and then by uninstalling the old ones first as you said, but when that didn't work I started trying other things from "Installation guides" I found online.

dirtyfleece said:

Well at first I didn't try to do anything except for a regular install process, both with nvidia drivers and then by uninstalling the old ones first as you said, but when that didn't work I started trying other things from "Installation guides" I found online.

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Have you tried a non destructive repair install ?

I always unzip the Nvidia driver exe file using Winrar, then run the setup.exe as an administrator... Never had a problem

Hi,

Since integrity violations have been found, try sfc /scannow.

You might need to run this 3 times in an attempt to fix these violations.

Regards,
Golden

I found out why I got this error. Not enough space on system harddrive It obviously need a lot of space to install. And how hard could it be to make the installer tell you that this is the reason it cannot install :/

This worked for me. Fewer steps and no other programs needed. Real stupid solution, but I hope it proves useful for someone. Log in as an adminstrator to your Windows 7 PC:

1) Download driver program "285.62-notebook-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql. exe" (obtained from Drivers - GeForce)
2) Run to unpack files (default folder "C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\285.62\WinVista_Win7_64\ International")
3) Fail initial installation, or cancel
4) Go to Control Panel -> Device Manager
5) Right-click your video card and click "Update Driver Software..."
6) Select "Browse my computer for driver software"
7) Browse to folder where you unpacked the files (ensure "Include subfolders" is checkmarked)
8) Continue with install (may take a few minutes and screen may flicker during install)
9) Restart your computer

nvidia installation failing [SOLVED]

dirtyfleece said:

I've been attempting to install the drivers for my new Nvidia GTX 460 today and haven't had any luck. Every time I run the installer it ends partway through the installation with the message: NVIDIA Installer failed
NVIDIA Update -Not Installed
PhysX System Software -Not Installed
3D Vision Controller Driver -Not Installed
HD Audio Driver -Not Installed
NVIDIA Control Panel -Failed
Graphics Driver -Failed
3D Vision Driver -Not Installed

i had this problem and fixing is is quite easy just open registry as an adminstarator and search for "nvidia", to search just press ctrl+f, delete all entries that you will find it might take a while but the most imporant are the ones written "nvidia.installer...." as soon as you do that it should install without any problem please reply if it works . you may ignore registry value that are nvidia audio thank . you

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