b4bylon

maniacvvv is there a way to tell the nvidia installer to make the temp directory somewhere else than C drive? like an parametter when u start the wizard? Thanks.

you do NOT -ever- move or tamper with that folder, or you will be formatting your OS drive

Subliminal9

Hello Again;

    Time once again for fun and frolic with Video Card and Driver installation.  I'm back with an interesting thing that happened when I finally upgraded my GPU.

    A little further back in this thread I got some excellent and accurate info on how to upgrade my drivers and it worked like a charm.  There were no problems with the old card ... well except the fact that it was overheating.  Thus the new card.  Since the current version of the drivers were the same for both cards, all I had to do was drop in the new card.  Of course by thinking it would be simple, I angered the Tech Spirits.  Being a little more thorough from the start this time.  So get ready for a long one ... here is what is happening now that I need help with.

current mobo::       EVGA nForce 780i SLI FTW  132-YW-E178-A1
old GPU::                EVGA e-GeForce 9800GTX+  01G-P3-N880-AR
current GPU::         EVGA GeForce GTX 570 Superclocked 1280 MB
                                    012-P3-1572-AR
OS::                       Windows XP SP3  32bit

    I removed the old GPU and installed the GTX570.  After all the restarting it gave the pop-up of found new hardware as shown below.



and


    It took 4 cancels to close and I began the clean re-install of the current drivers.  Having already checked the thread and the download site, I saw that there were updated drivers.  But I wanted the get the current up and running first.  So did the clean re-install of 301.42 as below.



    After the restart, the found new hardware and searching for drivers pop-ups still occurred.  So I thought it might have been a matter of now outdated drivers so I did a clean install of drivers 310.90 and restarted.



    After doing all this I still get the searching for drivers and found new hardware on each startup.  Now some of the games which clearly support the card are saying they don't as if the drivers are not identified or present.  I'm afraid this may be a growing trend and that somehow the card is not truly installed.  All other functions are fine (for now) once you click cancel 4 time at start-up or I would not be able to send this.

   So there it all is.  How can I really install my new card?  I'm almost positive that one crucial step has been missed somewhere.  Maybe I should have just installed the drivers from the disc first?  Any ideas you have will be very welcome.  And as before ... thank you in advance

Subliminal9

Hello again Maniacvvv:

And tomorrow is indeed another day with fresh eyes on the problem.  Thank you so much for your help.  I indeed went through each of the pop-ups and let it check for software.  None was found for each.  I went through every area I could check and the new drivers were installed.  The nVidia Control Panel was up to date and listed the current card and settings.  Even the game which wasn't working identified the correct GPU.

    So I took the leap and did something I hadn't done on the previous "New Hardware Found" pop-ups.  As shown below, I left the check in the box that said don't prompt me again.  Yes, something so "simple" ... there's that word again  and that was it.  Four checked boxes and no more pop-ups ... (for now)



And also, by the time I checked the game forums there was already a post noting that others were having the same "Video Card Unsupported" error.  So it was nothing to do with the GTX570.

Thanks for going that extra distance with your help and have a great weekend.  No wait ... have a great year

b4bylon

maniacvvv

b4bylon

maniacvvv is there a way to tell the nvidia installer to make the temp directory somewhere else than C drive? like an parametter when u start the wizard? Thanks.

Why? its only a few hundred MB's
You can "browse" and put it elsewhere (it just the extraction location)

Are you sure we are talking about the extraction file? your post makes it sound like the Nvidia Windows folder
you do NOT -ever- move or tamper with that folder, or you will be formatting your OS drive

Hi again

Well I was talking about the Setup Wizard, he is making an temp folder on the C drive.   Some stuff goes in the program data folder, some stuff in the program file x86 folder, and a lot of stuff goes to Windows   and the Users/<username>/appdata/      ..... my hard drive is old , 5 years old, then it was running windows me on it , the C partition has only 15 GB, after and I use a lot of programs that require to install common files onto the C drive. after I compressed the drive and moved ALL the temporary folders on the other drives i managed to get 600MB free,  IF I try to install/update nvidia drivers , i cant . i need at least 1.2 Gb free to get a succes instalation. I monitorized the instalation proceses. U should try this too. when u install nvidia video drivers press F5, and watch carefully ur C drive :) .... and there is a peak in disk load , exactly when the setup wizard finishes the installation of the graphics driver.

I want to buy a SSD disk as soon as possible but i needed a quick fix for this matter, cause the last set of  drivers (310) caused a lot of trouble to  my Sli system.

Thanks.

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Fenrir Ulv

Ok, so first I do apologize for any stupidity I do, Im still a bit of a noob when it comes to this stuff, but I just cant figure it out right now (actually made an account just to ask some questions). Any way, I read through the entire thing and am trying to follow word by word, however once I get to the section where you mention the add/remove programs there are no listings for anything Nvidia. I can run Driver sweeper and it will find them, should I just use that?

Also, I have been trying to look through a few pages to see if you mentioned this but I didnt see anything, sorry if you have answered this already!

Im running a GeForce GTX 260M and to be quite honest my computer is getting old and dying.

I wrongly installd my drivers before but it didnt give me an error, but now Im getting an error when I try to look at the display panel for Nvidia. I did a complete factory reset not too long ago and also a system restore after messing up a driver install (so I probably screwed quite a bit up doing that).

I havent proceeded past the add/remove yet since I dont want to mess it all up again and make my problem worse. 

Leiath

Sorry to say it didnt fix my problem. When i turn off and on, the pc starts up but when it gets to the windows logo i get a pop saying no signal and i get a black screen. I turn off and on and select safe mode, hit restart and after awhile get the black screen again. Start in safemode, reinstall the graphics driver only with clean install after deleting the folder and hit restart. Works fine.  Any ideas on what the problem would be? Any suggestions is appreciated.

Forgot to mention that if i restart the pc its is all good as well. Just cant shut it down. 

ellibre

Hey Maniac,
How are things going? Busy of course. Anyways, I have a question, hopefully you can answer soon but then again no rush. What's you take on the new 314.07 driver? I know all drivers are a good thing but I have an EVGA GTX 580 classified 3gb so I was just making sure. I believe you have the same cards too but in SLI correct? Thank you again.

RSTWildCat

maniacvvv

IntoDream

Driver sweeper has been discontinued, instead, Driver Fusion by Treexy came as an uppdate, is this still safe to use?, BTW, i'm not getting the nvidia tray icon since i used this guide, i followed the instructions by the book, can someone help me with this? :D 
thanks in avance.

Driver fusion is just released... I have not used it and cannot comment on the program at this time.
Given what I just read at the site, its doubtful I would install the program myself until I have heard from others who have done so....
I really dont trust the way using the program is setup.

As for the NVTray, its not needed at all. Simply right click anywhere on the desktop to access the NVCP

Don't know if this has already been covered or not, but for what it's worth...
DriverSweeper has become Driver Fusion. Original Developer had this to say at Overclock.net -

First time posting, though I've been a member for 6 years now, and referring others with vid card problems here
since I found your guide.  So call this a belated thank you for all of your work and good luck with your new guide.
Can't wait to see it when it's done

Edit: Oops  ...Looks as if you have links turned off.  If interested in Driver Fusion developer's statement
feel free to give me a holler.

sheepdog26

There is also on Overclock.net forum that tells of completely uninstalling AMD/Nvidia drivers by the default measures, and also dealing with the registry parts to truly get rid of the roots of the Drivers.