Please help me, I'm going crazy, nvidia driver failed install

Illuminist · 26 Nov 2019 at 22:58

Hello there, starting today when saw i have an update for my 2080ti in nvidia experience, as normal I downloaded it and tried to install it only this time it said failed......
I tried custom, failed, express, failed......

Uninstall the drivers I had and the experience.
Downloaded fresh... Failed
Download experience, failed.

DDU in safe mode, tried again, failed.
Windows update, downloading nvidia 27.something. Installing, failed.... No reasons why for any of these.

Tried deleting from services, from the hard drive, from the registry. Running ccleaner.. Tried again and failed.

Please for the love of everything someone help me

snips86x · 26 Nov 2019 at 23:00

Might be worth scanning the registry for any keys that might be lingering.

Does it work if you 'run as administrator'?

Illuminist · 26 Nov 2019 at 23:01

snips86x said:
Might be worth scanning the registry for any keys that might be lingering.

Does it work if you 'run as administrator'?

It doesn't work however I try. I will search the registry for nvidia now

Illuminist · 26 Nov 2019 at 23:06

@snips86x nope

Someone out there must have had this, I remeber reading about it ages ago but now it's happening to me

Gregster · 26 Nov 2019 at 23:19

Display driver uninstaller and try again is my advice.

Rroff · 26 Nov 2019 at 23:20

Have you read up on the whole DCH thing? though usually it gives an error about that.

Alternatively try extracting the nVidia driver with 7-zip or the like to a folder, go into Device Manager and find the GPU, go into its properties and do a manual driver update pointing at the folder you extracted the driver to - then if that works you might want to reboot and follow up with re-running the installer.

Quartz · 26 Nov 2019 at 23:29

Which anti-virous software are you running?

Illuminist · 26 Nov 2019 at 23:33

Quartz said:
Which anti-virous software are you running?

Windows style

Quartz · 26 Nov 2019 at 23:38

Have you tried installing an older Nvidia driver? Have you tried running your GPU at stock clocks during the install?

NoobCannon · 27 Nov 2019 at 00:46

Are you using a custom bios?

McGraw · 27 Nov 2019 at 01:55

Cut your losses and reinstall windows

Kelt · 27 Nov 2019 at 02:40

Might be worth trying the clean driver:

https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/441-41-clean-version.421390/

Illuminist · 27 Nov 2019 at 06:44

I've tried using DDU, ive tried using an old driver, I've tried using the Dhc driver, not a custom bios.
So strange that I was just playing games and then updated the driver like I've done many many times for it to fail

ThunderLicker · 27 Nov 2019 at 07:43

I had this on my 1080ti a while back, but mine happened when my control panel decided to go loopy. Tried uninstall and reinstall drivers and it just kept failing.
Don't know if you've tried but I used ddu and disabled windows auto updates through it which got mine to install. Was a windows conflict with mine where it was messing about in the background trying install its own drivers and screwing everything up.

Illuminist · 27 Nov 2019 at 08:02

ThunderLicker said:
I had this on my 1080ti a while back, but mine happened when my control panel decided to go loopy. Tried uninstall and reinstall drivers and it just kept failing.
Don't know if you've tried but I used ddu and disabled windows auto updates through it which got mine to install. Was a windows conflict with mine where it was messing about in the background trying install its own drivers and screwing everything up.

Thanks for the reply.
It won't even install windows update version, that fails too.
it says generic vga device in the device manager. And when I try to update it, it just says Windows failed to update this device. No explanation or error code

In gpuz all the boxes are just blank also....

So weird to be playing a game and then such a massive problem to happen just updating the driver

nomadd · 27 Nov 2019 at 09:30

Illuminist said:
Thanks for the reply.
It won't even install windows update version, that fails too.
it says generic vga device in the device manager. And when I try to update it, it just says Windows failed to update this device. No explanation or error code

In gpuz all the boxes are just blank also....

So weird to be playing a game and then such a massive problem to happen just updating the driver

As someone mentioned above - look at your anti-virus. Disable it temporarily and install the drivers.

I got into terrible problems with Commodo AV at one stage and Nvidia drivers, and had the exact same behaviour as you are seeing.

Might be worth a try, if you haven't already done so.

bru · 27 Nov 2019 at 10:39

Maybe a system restore back to an earlier time when it was working, to reset the registry and then try again.
Sorry just clutching at straws.

eeii · 27 Nov 2019 at 11:00

Is there anything in event viewer you can see concerning nvidia drivers ?

eeii · 27 Nov 2019 at 11:46

The other thing I would try is to disconnect any networking. Run DDU again. Reboot and check device manager to see what it says. Failing that you are in to hacking the registry and that could cause more damage than it solves.

Quartz · 27 Nov 2019 at 11:55

Two things to try:
1. Move the GPU to another slot
2. Take the GPU out and put another one in. Set that up, make sure you go through at least two reboots afterwards, then put the 2080 Ti back in.