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trouble installing drivers (win7)

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Hope someone could help me out - I'm unable to install drivers for my video cards. I just received my BFG GTX 285 to upgrade from my BFG 8800GTS 512. Pull out the new card, hook up the new one, boot up, and Windows detects the card as just Video Controller (VGA Compatible). Try to use the Win 7 windows update to install new drivers and it finds drivers for the GTX 285. I select Install Updates, but it fails. The only error is . Ok, so i download the drivers directly from Nvidia's site, try those out, but it hangs for a few minutes halfway through, then says no changes have been made.

Ok, so maybe somethings wrong w/ this new card. pull out the GTX 285 andI pop in the 8800GTS again, but now Windows only detects this as a generic Video Controller, and I can't update the drivers for this either!

Anyone have any advice? I can always reinstall the OS, but I don't really want to go through that pain right now.
 
I had some problems with Windows 7 and my gpu drivers, like what you said, they wouldn't install. I had to fiddle with it but it got working.

First, go to Programs and remove all Nvidia installations and reboot. When it comes into 7 it should install a default Nvidia driver. Then try installing the Windows 7 driver. If that don't work, try manually installing them by going to device manager, update driver then pointing tot he c:\Nvidia folder for that package.

If that still doesn't work, uninstall everything again and try the newest Vista driver.
 
Yea when I had the 280 I had a similiar issue as well. I ran through a full driver cleanup and installed a Vista driver, worked great.
 
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