Why is my Nvidia driver update install failing?

[miketen587]

Not too sure why this is happening, but I don't recalling it happening with any drivers before this one.

According the the image below, the actual video driver is updating, the other features are not though. I've tried a clean install and that does not work either.



I'm sure its probably a stupid easy fix I'm just missing...Anybody know why?

 

[tweakboy]

Put all settings on stock in BIOS and try it. gl

 

[Muyoso]

I get the same thing. No idea how to fix it. No idea why it happens. It installs the actual driver, and then everything else fails to update. Weird as hell.

 

[miketen587]

Yes, it's very frustrating. The most frustrating part is that I have no idea why it's happening. I don't even know where to begin.

 

[Grooveriding]

Thread confirmed as OP's attempt to give everyone a sprain in their neck.

 

[TY-1]

Not too sure why this is happening, but I don't recalling it happening with any drivers before this one.

According the the image below, the actual video driver is updating, the other features are not though. I've tried a clean install and that does not work either.

...

I'm sure its probably a stupid easy fix I'm just missing...Anybody know why?

Which Nvidia card are you running, make and model please? Are you only running a single card or do you have SLI?

I've heard of a few issues with the GTX 660ti when it comes to updating the drivers, but that was a few months ago and got cleared up with clean installs.

 

[FalseChristian]

I'm running 2 'old' GTX 460 1GB SLI and I've never had a problem installing
nVidia's drivers. Just make sure that you check the uninstall previous drivers
box.

 

[Cloudfire777]

Your Nvidia driver install haven`t failed. It installed the driver if you look closely.
It skipped PhysX because you have a newer one, it installed the newest graphic driver, but what it didn`t install is the Nvidia update which I have been having problems with before.

Its not important though, just a minor annoyance that rarely want to update which cause the message "Nvidia Installer failed" to pop up at the end of the installation allthough in reality it didn`t fail. Nvidia should fix the Nvidia updater.

 

[miketen587]

Your Nvidia driver install haven`t failed. It installed the driver if you look closely.
It skipped PhysX because you have a newer one, it installed the newest graphic driver, but what it didn`t install is the Nvidia update which I have been having problems with before.

Its not important though, just a minor annoyance that rarely want to update which cause the message "Nvidia Installer failed" to pop up at the end of the installation allthough in reality it didn`t fail. Nvidia should fix the Nvidia updater.

That's what I figured. I'm just curious more than anything honestly.

 

[miketen587]

Which Nvidia card are you running, make and model please? Are you only running a single card or do you have SLI?

I've heard of a few issues with the GTX 660ti when it comes to updating the drivers, but that was a few months ago and got cleared up with clean installs.

Its a GTX 670. Just a single card, no sli.

 

[beegie1]

I use Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit and have a Galaxy 760 card and was trying to upgrade to 344.11 and kept getting
the 'Nvidia installer failed' message. After reading forum after forum and running DriverSweeper, Safe Mode, going

into the registery and deleteing anything that referenced Nvidia, trying to install older versions even the one I

was using previously, 'Run as Administrator', manually installing the driver through the 'Device Manager', the

driver in Windows update wouldn't install either . Nothing worked so after several days of reading forums and trying

everything I could think of I was about ready to yank the card out and throw it in the trash and go buy an Radeon.

What finally worked for me was I thought I would go into Run/msconfig and see what programs were running and

possibly preventing the driver from installing. I noticed on the 'General Tab' 'Selective startup' was selected so I

thought I would try 'Normal startup' and after rebooting I was able to install the driver with no problems.

Hopefully this will help someone.