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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 12:03 pm     Super secret spam barrier
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Hi all, as much a notice that I'm temporarily out-of-action as actually asking for advice.

My computer s**t the bed while updating graphics drivers this morning, and now refuses to install graphic drivers at all with "An unknown error occurred" - fantastic bloody error message... I've been through the rigmarole of ripping out all disc and registry traces of them etc, but still no luck - and Nvidia support is alternating between slow and completely bloody useless.

If anyone happens to have run into a similar error before I'd love any advice, but I reckon it unlikely!


Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 12:34 pm     Super secret spam barrier
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Display Driver Uninstaller may be useful if you haven't tried that yet. Also its never a bad shout to re-seat the GPU just to cover bases.

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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 2:50 pm     Super secret spam barrier
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try to reboot into safe mode, delete all graphic drivers and try again.


Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 3:42 pm     Super secret spam barrier
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Those were the first things I covered, sadly :(


Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 5:02 pm     Super secret spam barrier
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what happens if you try to install the driver manualy with the hardware manager?
like right click on the device - properties - update drivers - on disk - browse to driver files


Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 5:29 pm     Super secret spam barrier
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Are you f**k kidding me? Why the f**k does that work, when running the raw files doesn't either through explorer or Nvidia's own f**k wrapper?!

Thanks Rev, you just saved me a s**t of hastle >.<#


Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 5:48 pm     Super secret spam barrier
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glad it worked.
try to reinstall the driver via installer or gefroce experience  again.
there are some more drivers that doesnt get installed if you do it manually (physx, sound, etc)


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Yeah, I'll save that for tomorrow - this evening I need some gaming to recover from a day of frustration xD


Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2016 7:35 pm     Super secret spam barrier
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I used GE first, then downloaded from there after as I suspected a corrupt download. GE normally works fine for me, and it removes a step from driver updates.


Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 8:32 am     Super secret spam barrier
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Fair play - but I'd never had a single issue doing it my way either :v Guess random s**t luck just caught up with me finally.


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