Well i went ahead and bit the bullet. I did as i said i was going to do. i did a full wipe of my raid and re installed win 7 and the first driver i downloaded outside of the normal windows files was the beta drivers and they extracted and installed fine. sadly i dont know exactly what was corrupted on my original install. all that matters now is that its fixed. 

Congrats on getting it working bro

Sorry for harping on this zip vs exe issue.....
Here a snipit from driver directory

  [image]app_themes/Original/image/filetype/JPG.gif[/image]Nvidia drivers snipit.JPG
First I thought it was because I use the international version, so I downloaded the US Version...
All show .exe.
Are you trying to tell me that despite it saying .exe it actually is a .zip?????
 
Weird, I have no extract option when right clicking; and double clicking ends up with the standard execute=install.
 
But you say they actually is .zips!?!?!? Strange!!!

mru55

Sorry for harping on this zip vs exe issue.....
Here a snipit from driver directory

[image]app_themes/Original/image/filetype/JPG.gif[/image]Nvidia drivers snipit.JPG
First I thought it was because I use the international version, so I downloaded the US Version...
All show .exe.
Are you trying to tell me that despite it saying .exe it actually is a .zip?????

Weird, I have no extract option when right clicking; and double clicking ends up with the standard execute=install.

But you say they actually is .zips!?!?!? Strange!!!

 

 
http://www.gdgsoft.com/faq/7zsfx.htm

The Nvidia driver package is designed to work on stock Windows installs without any downloaded compression software whatsoever, IE no WinRar, 7zip Etc are needed.
 
The installer is a exe with its own programming to unpack its files.
 
You do NOT unpack the files, you launch the installer at -it- does it.
 

Thanks for your patience!
No matter how old you are, you can learn something new every day...............
 

More about.....7zip command line

Biden

I am Raees dar from Gujrat
I am using evga gtx 960 ftw 4gb gaming card
before this I am facing some errors of drivers like 7zip error and so and so
now I installed new driver
1- download driver from gefore.com any new driver
2- extract this driver from 7zip
3- open device manager, properties find your card driver and double click
4- press driver button and then update driver
5- press browse my computer for driver software button
6- find the drive where u extract driver ( newly extracted)
7- window will now find the driver and thats all.
8- Raees dar Gujrat, Translator, Designer, pc gamer, lover, 03016212007

ahmedevgaa
I am Raees dar from Gujrat
I am using evga gtx 960 ftw 4gb gaming card
before this I am facing some errors of drivers like 7zip error and so and so
now I installed new driver
1- download driver from gefore.com any new driver
2- extract this driver from 7zip
3- open device manager, properties find your card driver and double click
4- press driver button and then update driver
5- press browse my computer for driver software button
6- find the drive where u extract driver ( newly extracted)
7- window will now find the driver and thats all.
8- Raees dar Gujrat, Translator, Designer, pc gamer, lover, 03016212007

Download any driver. The driver will be an executable file and you do NOT need to extract it for any reason. The name of the driver should be: 375.70-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe. Just run this file.

i had the same once i have been using this ever since  just download 7 zip  http://www.7-zip.org/   it is free open source