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Yes I agree Derek what annoyed ne though is the Asus support site bot local (Philippines call centre) and the global one (I am presuming Taiwan) gave me three different drivers yet the Sydney based one had the problem fixed in an hour because I was being directed to the wrong NVidia download site.
So if anyone who has an Asus machine particularly a laptop - is reading this then I would suggest you contact the very nearest one to you and it is I am assuming - support.asus.com just type that into the address bar no need for www. etc and you should come up with what is in my pic and sue the circled feature.
Same problem here. I'm trying to confirm or eliminate driver issues as a cause for BSODs (it's either that or the graphics card itself, happens when I play games) but Step 8, rebooting the computer, effectively undoes Step 7, uninstallation of the drivers, hence the driver installer (Step 9) is just going to refuse to do anything on the grounds a newer version is already installed.
A Graphics Adapter is necessary and not the Nvidia Driver. But, it does not require a reboot. If you set Windows Update to 'let me decide what to install' It should not install a driver.
I don't think it is a good practice to ever advise consumers to turn off Windows Update as they likely will never return to see what all they're missing and 7 is so heavily patched now that you can almost be sure there are patches there that some hardware, software or the OS depend upon. Often these are strangely queued under Optional.
My point of view here is mostly from Clean Reinstall Factory OEM where I would still always go with WIndows Update drivers since I can't remember a single one of it's 1.3+ million users who reported bogus WUD drivers, and that's acknowledging their screw-up rate of one in a million.
With self-builds there's better reason to immediately plug in the chipset and GPU drivers, possibly after seeing what WUD offers since you know in most cases that's the OS speaking.
In either case I always turn off all GPU software in msconfig>Statup and >Services (after Hiding all MS Services) and in Services.msc since it's bloatware can present problems and is not needed.
Just another point of view. You guys work in BSOD which has my greatest respect, and will know how much GPU software is too much. Last I recall on the subject was something Archie said about never using it.
Greg, in the beginning I stated that the tutorial is mainly for people who are already having driver problems. I said turn WU off just for the driver install. The last sentence in the tutorial states to turn WU back to where you like it.
Which one is installed in Device Manager? How's performance?
Recent Nvidia updates are bypassing MS config and will need disabling in services.MSC.
Hi,
I can't tell there isn't a listing for it would it be in display adapters .....gtx 980 properties ?
But GeForce experience shows 353.30 6/22/15
It's usually coded in the Display driver version.
It looks like you've gotten a newer one than either of those, Probably from Windows Update.
In any case you can delete those two files from C as they are merely staging files for the driver install.