8800gtx driver issues

yantorsen · 29 Sep 2007 at 23:20

My pc spec's are in my sig.

I can't install any drivers for my gpu, because it didn't come with any, and that pc doesn't have internet access (due to wifi driver problems),

I've tryed downloading the drivers off the internet and putting them on a CD, then on my new pc, but it doesn't work.

My base score on vista is 1.0, becauase of the graphics!

thanks for any help.

ljt · 29 Sep 2007 at 23:47

i know this might sound patronising (and i dont mean it that way) but what happens when you run the exe file you downloaded off your cd on your new PC?

yantorsen · 29 Sep 2007 at 23:54

well it all installs, and everything, and it says it was successful, but it doesn't actually work for some reason. It says something about it being disabled or something? not sure. I'll have to look tomorow, when i turn it on again.

Also when i copied the files onto the Cd off the pc im on now, it said some of the files could not be copied onto the Cd, wht could they have been?

gt_junkie · 29 Sep 2007 at 23:56

When it completes does it ask you to restart as that is normally required!

Should work fine.

gt

yantorsen · 29 Sep 2007 at 23:58

yeah it does, it restrts, but still doesn't work.

hmm.. I'll get some screen shots tomorow for you, might help, rather than me trying to explain lol.

ljt · 30 Sep 2007 at 00:09

yantorsen said:
well it all installs, and everything, and it says it was successful, but it doesn't actually work for some reason. It says something about it being disabled or something? not sure. I'll have to look tomorow, when i turn it on again.

Also when i copied the files onto the Cd off the pc im on now, it said some of the files could not be copied onto the Cd, wht could they have been?

Some?? There should only be 1 and thats the Forceware....exe file. Have you not got a usb memory stick to try instead?

oh and for that 1.0 under graphics in the vista performance thing, you have to click refresh and run the test again to change it once you've installed the driver

yantorsen · 30 Sep 2007 at 00:28

ljt said:
Some?? There should only be 1 and thats the Forceware....exe file. Have you not got a usb memory stick to try instead?

nope I don't have anything else like a usb stick, and I can't remember wht the files were that couldn't copy onto the Cd, i'll find out tomorow for you.

ljt said:
oh and for that 1.0 under graphics in the vista performance thing, you have to click refresh and run the test again to change it once you've installed the driver

yeah I did refresh it, and t didn't help.

could someone please link me to the correct drivers please, because I just wanna check I'm using the write thing.

thanks everyone for all you input btw.

ljt · 30 Sep 2007 at 00:34

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_163.69.html

thats the link, assuming your using vista64 as per your sig

yantorsen · 30 Sep 2007 at 00:47

hmmm... I was using this...

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/winvista_x64_163.69_uk.html

it seems to be a much larger file too?

anyway thnks for all ** help. I'm off to bed, I'll back to this thread tomorow, with some more info.

Pigeon_Killer · 30 Sep 2007 at 00:51

Is there any difference, other than the size, between the US and International versions of the driver?

ljt · 30 Sep 2007 at 00:56

Pigeon_Killer said:
Is there any difference, other than the size, between the US and International versions of the driver?

I've had both and not really seen any difference, I just think the international contains many languages etc, whereas the US one only contains US english files

yantorsen · 30 Sep 2007 at 17:21

I have the internet working, now on my new PC, but when i download and install the nvidia drivers, i get this error...

helmutcheese · 30 Sep 2007 at 17:23

Try installing in Safe Mode.

modo77 · 30 Sep 2007 at 17:28

Sounds like the driver install screwed up from that error, boot into safe mode and run driver sweeper http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655
Then reboot and reinstall the drivers again

yantorsen · 30 Sep 2007 at 17:52

modo77 said:
Sounds like the driver install screwed up from that error, boot into safe mode and run driver sweeper http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655
Then reboot and reinstall the drivers again

everytime I click on that link, IE crashes.

any other places to get it from?

modo77 · 30 Sep 2007 at 17:55

thats odd. try going to guru3d.com and into the downloads section, utilities

yantorsen · 30 Sep 2007 at 18:05

guru3d.com still crashes my internet explorer. I just tryed to download flash player for IE and it crashed aswell. So i tryed downloading firefox, and there was an error towards the end of the download.

modo77 · 30 Sep 2007 at 18:12

hmm, is this a fresh install of windows? Something strange is going on.
I remember coming across a problem on xp when an install didn't go on correctly and it stopped install shield installing anything else. trying to remember the fix..

yantorsen · 30 Sep 2007 at 18:53

modo77 said:
hmm, is this a fresh install of windows? Something strange is going on.
I remember coming across a problem on xp when an install didn't go on correctly and it stopped install shield installing anything else. trying to remember the fix..

yep it is a new install, everyithing in this system is new.

yantorsen · 30 Sep 2007 at 18:57

this is the error that comes up on IE: