Had same problem was driving me crazy pardon the pun. But I solved it. downlaod the latest driver, and unpack it. It fail don't worry. Go into device manager and disable your display driver (mine is gtx 275) Go back into device manager and right clk on the now missing display driver and click update, then select manual, and direct the path to the c drive nvidea folder, this will fail, finally on dsply drvr right click, choose scan for hardware changes, congrats
@smelypenny yeah, it did that for me but then it just shows a low res, up to the limit that your native system can handle bios/ram/cpu. If your PC cannot handle windows 7 without a gpu then it may struggle running just with a 275. I hope you are ok now!
Ok the way I got it to work is by doing that install, then going to computer -> properties -> device manager -> selecting my video card under display adapters-> then click update drivers -> then browse computer -> then finding where the extracted files are located (C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\285.62\WinVista_Win7_64\English\Display.Driver) then finishing it out. I guess something is wrong with the installer, not so much the drivers. Thumbs up if this worked so others can know.
@DoubleOBond When I do that, mine says "Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT. There is no driver selected for the device information set or element." -OR- "The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)" and it goes into a low resolution.
@DoubleOBond I am, I did some testing and I believe that it is actually a problem with windows7-64. I also booted to XP with drivers v191 everything worked fine, but I couldn't update because my "c" drive partition is 25mb as a boot partition and my WindowsXP partition is F: but the nvidia drivers store the files in a temp folder on C:\windows\Temp no matter what, so I couldn't update them. I used partition magic 8 to change the drive letters and it failed so XP is no longer bootable, LOL.
@DoubleOBond I just have to decide now if I want to copy the files over to another drive and format the XP-SP2-32bit drive and install XP-SP3-32bit or install 7-64bit or 32-bit. If I do 7-64, I can see if the problem was in fact the win7 install, but if I do XP, then I can still have access to WinXP if I need it. It's moving 400gigs of data to an external USB and the remaining 100gigs between some other drives... I'm not sure what I want to do yet.
I have the same exact error and can't fix it. Nvidia released new drivers 2/21/2012 and they still do the same error.
guest2424 3 days ago
@DoubleOBond Can you PLS make a tut on what you put? I'm still a bit confused on the install part you mention in the beginning.
TheROWDYRAVEN 3 weeks ago
@TheROWDYRAVEN just run the installer that you download, after it fails do the remaining steps.
DoubleOBond 3 weeks ago
Can u make a video like how u fix this problem
tmcaptain0 1 month ago
HEy DoubleOBond can u help me I want you to make a vid like how u did that cuz im confused
tmcaptain0 1 month ago
@tmcaptain0 What are you even asking?
DoubleOBond 1 month ago
the international drivers worked for me
xXskaterdudeXx111 3 months ago
That work for me Thx :D
heavenzii 3 months ago
Had same problem was driving me crazy pardon the pun. But I solved it. downlaod the latest driver, and unpack it. It fail don't worry. Go into device manager and disable your display driver (mine is gtx 275) Go back into device manager and right clk on the now missing display driver and click update, then select manual, and direct the path to the c drive nvidea folder, this will fail, finally on dsply drvr right click, choose scan for hardware changes, congrats
MrDStillbirth 3 months ago 2
@MrDStillbirth Worked for me, not letting me gives thumbs up for some reason
lilg1323 3 months ago
@MrDStillbirth Now i just got a black screen n a disabled card -.-
smelypenny 2 months ago
@smelypenny yeah, it did that for me but then it just shows a low res, up to the limit that your native system can handle bios/ram/cpu. If your PC cannot handle windows 7 without a gpu then it may struggle running just with a 275. I hope you are ok now!
MrDStillbirth 2 months ago
Ok the way I got it to work is by doing that install, then going to computer -> properties -> device manager -> selecting my video card under display adapters-> then click update drivers -> then browse computer -> then finding where the extracted files are located (C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\285.62\WinVista_Win7_64\English\Display.Driver) then finishing it out. I guess something is wrong with the installer, not so much the drivers. Thumbs up if this worked so others can know.
DoubleOBond 3 months ago 15
@DoubleOBond
Phew this worked, thanks!
emptyangel 3 months ago
@DoubleOBond this worked for me, thanks alot!
tirhc 3 months ago
@DoubleOBond thanks!!! it worked
itcouldb 3 months ago
@DoubleOBond When I do that, mine says "Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT. There is no driver selected for the device information set or element." -OR- "The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)" and it goes into a low resolution.
guest2424 3 days ago
@guest2424 make sure you're using the appropriate drivers for that hardware.
DoubleOBond 2 days ago
@DoubleOBond I am, I did some testing and I believe that it is actually a problem with windows7-64. I also booted to XP with drivers v191 everything worked fine, but I couldn't update because my "c" drive partition is 25mb as a boot partition and my WindowsXP partition is F: but the nvidia drivers store the files in a temp folder on C:\windows\Temp no matter what, so I couldn't update them. I used partition magic 8 to change the drive letters and it failed so XP is no longer bootable, LOL.
guest2424 2 days ago
@DoubleOBond I just have to decide now if I want to copy the files over to another drive and format the XP-SP2-32bit drive and install XP-SP3-32bit or install 7-64bit or 32-bit. If I do 7-64, I can see if the problem was in fact the win7 install, but if I do XP, then I can still have access to WinXP if I need it. It's moving 400gigs of data to an external USB and the remaining 100gigs between some other drives... I'm not sure what I want to do yet.
guest2424 2 days ago
All right got a fix that worked for me. First down load the 285.38 beta drivers and install. then run the 285.62 drivers.
PS the international drivers were a diferant version.
Boomslangxi1 3 months ago
@Boomslangxi1 tried that, didn't work for me.
DoubleOBond 3 months ago
I had the same thing. Then I downloaded the international drivers and they worked for me
Boomslangxi1 4 months ago
@Boomslangxi1 How did you get the international drivers?
carace777 4 months ago
driver sweeper?
heyheyhophop 4 months ago
FUUUUUUUUUUUUU same here since 2 months and no fucking fix.
ZaCrox473v3 4 months ago 2
I have encountered the same problem and I'd seem can't find the solution yet. If you do find please reply to this comment. Thank you.
370chanlt 4 months ago
@370chanlt new drivers are now out
Pollack007 4 months ago
@370chanlt solution posted.
DoubleOBond 3 months ago
@DoubleOBond I am fine by now, thanks.
370chanlt 3 months ago
i've got the same problem. I tried everything to fix it
xXskaterdudeXx111 4 months ago
@xXskaterdudeXx111 solution posted.
DoubleOBond 3 months ago
well first thought were that your videocard doesnt support the beta driver. But seems like it should,so now im out of ideas why that aint working
rupluttaja 4 months ago