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nvidia 280gtx driver installation problem

Bobmunkhouse

Bobmunkhouse

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I previously had an radeon 2900HD and removed the drivers for it before installing the new card.
When I attempted to install the drivers I got this error "The nvidia setup program could not locate any drivers that are compatible with your current hardware, setup will now exit".
I was able to install the drivers by uninstalling the "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" drivers but this only seems to work temporary. When the computer next boots the old Standard VGA Graphics Adapter are installed.

Does anyone know what the issue is or how it can be resolved?

Thanks in advance.
 
Use driver cleaner/driver sweeper, remove EVERYTHING ATi/Nvidia related. Go through the relevant reboot cycles then download the latest Nvid drivers from the net, dont use the supplied ones. That should sort you out.
 
I had already done that, there's nothing ATI left. However, I did it again but the drivers still won't install.
The thing is that it worked fine once I got the drivers installed and they can remain installed for several reboots but then it goes back to the standard drivers.
 
Hmmm well its installed and all working now but as I said I gamed on it for 4 hours last night with no problems before this happend.....I just hope it does not happen again......

Could it be power or motherboard issue?
 
Bobmunkhouse said:
Hmmm well its installed and all working now but as I said I gamed on it for 4 hours last night with no problems before this happend.....I just hope it does not happen again......

Could it be power or motherboard issue?
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No. Sounds like a software issue. Have you got some sort of system protection software running that reverts it back to its previous settings?
 
ive got this problem on a gtx 260 ...i replaced the power supply it was'nt that...next time you cold boot let it start up log in and it should be on vga drivers .....shut it down don't use the restart button as soon as its shut off power it back up log in and it should detect ya card ......thats how i have to start mine up
 
MADEinSTOKE said:
ive got this problem on a gtx 260 ...i replaced the power supply it was'nt that...next time you cold boot let it start up log in and it should be on vga drivers .....shut it down don't use the restart button as soon as its shut off power it back up log in and it should detect ya card ......thats how i have to start mine up
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Well it happened again but thanks as this workaround did seem to work I only tested it once as had to go to work but I hope this works every time......Its a very strange problem as I left it off for an hour last night and then turned it back on and it was fine and then the same issue today.....very strange....could it be the motherboard or does everyone think its software? I could format?

Thanks for help so far everyone
 
i had a odd driver issue when installing mine , install the card and the drivers went back to the 180.20's even though i had the 180.22's installed before , though i had a bad card as fallout 3 kept crashing (something the the 180'20s loved to do) going to Rivatuner to downclock the card and only saw then that the card were running the .20's and not the .22's , reinstalled the .22's and all is good again .
 
Bobmunkhouse said:
Well it happened again but thanks as this workaround did seem to work I only tested it once as had to go to work but I hope this works every time......Its a very strange problem as I left it off for an hour last night and then turned it back on and it was fine and then the same issue today.....very strange....could it be the motherboard or does everyone think its software? I could format?

Thanks for help so far everyone
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yeah i do it once in the day and then i can turn the pc on and off allday and the graphics card will be detected every time......but turn it off at night time and come the next day i have to boot once then shut down ....boot up again then its sweet as a nut allday again.....is the card you bought an evga 1
 
MADEinSTOKE said:
yeah i do it once in the day and then i can turn the pc on and off allday and the graphics card will be detected every time......but turn it off at night time and come the next day i have to boot once then shut down ....boot up again then its sweet as a nut allday again.....is the card you bought an evga 1
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Hi, no its a Zotac.....did you every format to try to fix it?
 
Painful as it sounds you are probably faster doing a fresh install. Although its interesting trying to fix the problem through an iterative process.
 
Mate, its a power issue! Have you got the 6 and 8 pin power connectors in propperly??? And is your psu up to it?

I got mine last tuesday and it took me good part of an hour to noitce my 8 pin connector wasnt in right so the red light on the back pannel was showing (indicating not enough power, it turns green when all is good). So when i was in windows i was unable to see the device (and had to use onbard graphics).
 
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