No Nvidia control panel/driver not installing

[JimmyFly]

Ez Crew,

Having a major problem trying to install the latest drivers for my 8800GT, I went to hook my rig up to my 42" LCD TV through the HDMI input (something I did all the time while on XP) after a clean install of Win7 X64. I noticed the desktop was to big for the screen so I went to install 191 driver so I could get the control panel to adjust it.

The install starts fine gets to the installing drivers box but then the install just hangs go's blank, comes back hangs then get a notice say something like "the system could not be updated......."

I've tired unistalling the drivers from the device manager and reinsatlling all in safe mode. The same thing happened trying to install the driver again and there was no "Display Adapter " in device manager. I then restarted and the card installed(the driver?) it's self again

When I check the driver version its 8.15.11.8618

Anyone have any ideas whats going?


Cheers
Jimmy

 

[Uber Philf]

Hello, and welcome to the forums.

Have you tried installing the 190.62 Nvidia Drivers from the site? Alot of people are having problems with the 191 drivers.

 

[JimmyFly]

Hi Uber Phif thanks for the welcome, no I haven't tried the 190 wondered if a old one might work.Cheers going to check it now.

 

[JimmyFly]

Hello, and welcome to the forums.

Have you tried installing the 190.62 Nvidia Drivers from the site? Alot of people are having problems with the 191 drivers.

Hey bro that 190.62 driver is for 32bit XP, I'm running Win7 64bit, the 190.62 won't even install

Anyone know of a working Win7 64bit driver?

 

[Uber Philf]

There defiantly is x64 drivers, just checked myself.

Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

 

[JimmyFly]

There defiantly is x64 drivers, just checked myself.

Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

Yea sorry man I did'nt know there was 64bit version of the 190.62 i jus took the first one I found on it now tho hopefullly this sorts it.thanks

 

[JimmyFly]

Ok so I've tried using old drivers still no luck, I done a fresh install and still no luck.Starting to do my head in

 

[pATREUS]

I have similar problem with my 9800 GT on a Samsung R710 laptop after installing Win7 64. There is no video card showing in Device Manager so any Nvidia driver .exe fails as it does not detect the card.

EDIT: try http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and choose option 2 automatic detect drivers (only works in Internet Explorer)

 

[JimmyFly]

I have similar problem with my 9800 GT on a Samsung R710 laptop after installing Win7 64. There is no video card showing in Device Manager so any Nvidia driver .exe fails as it does not detect the card.

Yea mines not that bad. I'm showing my 8800GT in the device manager and there's the 191 driver installed in the display drivers for Nvidia under programme files. I just can't get the control panel to install.

Been reading a lot of forums where Nvidia users are having a really bad time trying to sort this. So far I can't find a definite answer to fix any of these problems. Some people have put up with this since Win7 beta came out.......

 

[Uber Philf]

Its really odd, its not a problem that occurs with everyone, maybe its the combination of hardware thats causing clashes. My 9400GT 1GB has never ever not been detected by W7.

 

[lexomik]

I have the same problem on my PC too i use the Windows 7 x86 7600 no bata or test version. bit i cant instal Nvidia control panel too. message is same. i tryed to cleanre gistry too and reboot after deinstalation but it want be installed.

 

[gullielli]

Same problem here..

I have 8600gts and running win7 x86 oem .. (Have the 64bit version but i choose not to install it ).

Im experiensing the same problem everyone else is describing .. I try to install the lates driver but all I get is this message

and nothing happends. The strange thing is that gpu-z tells me then I have 191.07 installed (which is the latest one) but the nvidia control panel isnt showing anywhere and all my games are not using fullscreen.

I've tried to install 190.02 but the same thing happens .. I have tried to uninstall and install the drivers in safemode but the same thing happends.

I'm left with using the driver on the CD that came with my graphic card which is using version 162.18 - There everything works fine .. the games are in fullscreen, the nvidia control panel is showing and everything is fine..
But I'd rather not use such a old driver though

 

[JimmyFly]

yea i still haven't got this sorted yet either, I'll work on it over the next few days as I'm off work

 

[JimmyFly]

Right then at last got my control panel back. Did a fresh install. Ran Windows Update, from list of optional updates there was a driver update for the 8800GT (my card). It install screen flicked on off, I checked the control panel undre display and low and behold there was the Nvidia control panel. Bit of a muck around but i'm happy now!!!

 

[gullielli]

dear god....

i installed win7 64bit and tried the latest driverupdates but the same **** happened.. - now i tried dling a archived driver, 186.18 and the same **** happens again!

i refuse to believe that the only driver that manages to install properly is the one that came with the graphic card on a CD, with version 161.xx

this is lolz

 

[Uber Philf]

Whoa, please, the swearing's not necessary, and id have to agree with you on that point.

 

[torrentg]

Hi folks. Put this to good, proper use and you should walk away from this all living to tell about it and happy.

http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D---Driver-Sweeper-(Setup)_d1655.html

 

[gullielli]

Hi folks. Put this to good, proper use and you should walk away from this all living to tell about it and happy.

Guru3D - Driver Sweeper (Setup) download from Guru3D.com

OH MY GOD I EFFING LOVE YOU MAN ! ..FINALLY it worked to install the latest driver ... So here is exactly what I did so others can maybe get it to work like I did !
I've been having MASSIVE problems with installing the latest drivers for my GPU and finally it worked !

1. I installed and let guru3d clean all my display drivers.
2. Restarted. (ITS IMPORTANT TO DO THIS!)
3. Downloaded and installed the 191.07 driver from WINDOWS UPDATE (IMPORTANT)
4. Restarted (IMPORTANT!)

note: I had to try and install the driver three times from windows update before it installed successfully ! So keep on going until it works!

And VOILA ! ...finally after weeks of brainstorming and swearing and only god and me knows what more.... it finally worked to install the driver !

oh and im running 64bit win7

 

[gullielli]

.......aaaaaaaaaaaand it was too good to be true!

Now all my games are not using fullscreen, there is a "black space" on the side of the screen.. Its not bound to just one game, it's on every game I play that is in fullscreen.
I know other people have this problem but the thing is that I dont get this problem with VERY old drivers, like 161.xx version

I've tried going to the nvidia panel > adjust desktop size and positions and "Use nvidia scaling" but everytime I change it and hit "APPLY" it just reverts back to "Use my displays built in scaling" ..

Has anyone been able to fix the game/fullscreen fail thingy ?

ninjaedit :: This is like a war .. Constant battle to make stuff work as intented! Human vs Drivers and Hardware ... WHO WILL WIN !?

 

[spy 1]

My nvidia control panel works but when I wanna see a movie on and enable tv-out I can no choose any other modes then clone but it does not even clone it right have 42¨ tv