Problems with nvidia drivers

wizarrrd · 12 Jul 2013 at 13:26

I'm sorry if this has been posted in the wrong section, it would be greatly appreciated if it could be moved to the appropriate one, thanks.

So, earlier on today, I tried to install the latest nVidia drivers, ran through the same process of downloading the latest drivers, running the driver.exe and attempting to install the latest drivers. (I run dual GTX 670's and have not had this problem previously, I've not changed anything within my system either or made any changes which would possibly corrupt/modify anything related to this)

However after they unpacked, I had an error box pop up with the following error:

Not enough storage space is available to complete this operation

Now, I have 2 hardrives, one which has 67GB of free space the other has over 300 GB, I'm running 6GB of RAM aswell, so I doubt that would be a problem.

So, I went to my control panel, attempted to uninstall the graphics drivers manually and the computer simply didn't respond to my command, I try to uninstall the drivers, click uninstall/remove and a small loading circle appears for a split second and then nothing happens.

I can't install any new drivers due to the no space error and I can't remove as it simply won't let me.

Any ideas?

kyle1970 · 12 Jul 2013 at 13:33

try uninstalling them via device manager

wizarrrd · 12 Jul 2013 at 14:07

It does remove the drivers to an extent, however they still show in the control panel and can't be removed.

I'm also still encountering the storage error whenever I try to install newer ones.

darael · 12 Jul 2013 at 17:20

Try uninstalling with Revo Uninstaller. I just use the freeware portable version.

wizarrrd · 12 Jul 2013 at 19:38

My problem is, that even if I can manage to un-install, I still get the space error.

Any ideas?

deuse · 13 Jul 2013 at 08:09

wizarrrd said:
My problem is, that even if I can manage to un-install, I still get the space error.

Any ideas?

After you un-installed the divers have you tried to search the C:: drive for any Nvidia folders and deleting them?

Then restarting and windows will install it's own driver then try again?

wizarrrd · 13 Jul 2013 at 11:51

Gave the last posts idea a go and still the same outcome.

It doesn't auto download the new drivers, so when I do try to manually install the nvidia ones, it still gives the "No Space" error.