Windows 10: Continuous crashes after a failed NVIDIA Driver installation.

After restarting the Laptop by force during Nvidia driver update, windows seem to crash into a Blue Screen.While finishing up the Nvidia driver update through Geforce Experience my laptop froze. I restarted it with the power button. However, now the Laptop crashes after a while of using the PC, seemingly at random.I have reinstalled the drivers using a DDU application online and downloading a new version of the driver, but the issue persists. The log below is from the latest crash.If anyone could direct me to somewhere where I might look for a solution, I would be forever thankful. Microso

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NVIDIA Driver Install Fails

I managed to install the driver only, which is OK for me.

Running the setup.exe in Safe-Mode didn't work.

So, I followed these steps:

1. Restart into safe mode
   
2. Open device manager
   
3. Find your GPU and right-click it, then select "Update Driver Software"
   
4. Click "Browse my computer for driver software"
   
5. Tick "Include Sub-Folders"
   
6. Navigate to the directory where the NVIDIA download extracted the setup files to, and click OK.
   
7. If it was successful, restart normally, and enjoy using a proper graphics driver.
   

 

NVIDIA driver keep crashing on Windows 10

Hi,

As far as I know, many Asus monitors do not have WQHL driver on Windows 10 and are refered as Generic PnP Monitor in
Device Manager. The software on Asus download site is just an optional software, not a driver.

But I think I've found a solution myself, after doing these steps:

• Uninstall NVIDIA driver using Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) and clean install it again.
• Open Device Manager, expand the Display Adapters menu, right-click on the graphic card's name and choose
  Update Driver.
• On the popup dialog, click on Browse my computer for driver software.
• Click on Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer.
• Select Microsoft Basic Display Adapter and click Next, wait for the installation to complete, then Reboot the system.

• After the system booted up, open the Device Manager and repeat those steps to get back to the list of the drivers on the system, this time select the right driver for the graphic card (mine is NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970) and
  click Next, wait for the installation to complete, then Reboot the system again.

After this step, I've experienced no crash until now. I'll also delete those "ghost" devices and continue testing my system for several days to make sure the problem is gone.

I'm not sure why the clean install of the driver, or even Windows, does not work, but these switching driver steps does the trick.

I'll update more info later.

Thank you for your time. Best wishes.

 

NVIDIA Driver Install Fails

The NVIDIA graphics driver on this PC is several versions out of date, so I went to upgrade it due to an unrelated issue. I went to the NVIDIA website, downloaded the 64-bit Windows 10 driver for the GT 720 GPU. I ran the installation as you normally would only to be met with the error "NVIDIA Installer Failed", and it told me the "Graphics Driver" failed to install.

Now I only have one usable monitor, the other is not detected, yet it turns on briefly as Windows initially loads the desktop.

What I Have Tried

Clean Installation

This is the first thing I tried, I restarted the computer, waited a while, and then I ran the NVIDIA driver installer, I selected "Custom Install", and then I ticked the "Clean Install" checkbox. This failed in the same way as before. Note, I also tried "Run[ning the updater] As Administrator".

Windows Update

I opened Windows Update to check for updates, since this can often fix failed driver installs. It said there was a NVIDIA driver update available, so began the update process. This failed with the error "0x80070003". I tried again, it failed again.

Manual Driver Install

From device manager, I right clicked on the GPU, and clicked "Update Driver Software", I opted to browse for driver files, with "Check subfolders" checked, and navigated to C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver\368.39\ and clicked "OK". This failed with "Code 28".

Manual Driver Install (Automatic)

Same as before, except I let Windows find the driver online automatically, I presume it found the same files I had already downloaded, and downloaded them again. This failed.

I am still stuck with one working monitor, reduced graphical performance, and am unable to install the NVIDIA driver.

This is my work PC, so I don't have a huge amount of time to reinstall Windows, so I'd rather not do that, as I have various customisations in place, and lots of programs installed. It'd take a long time for me to do all of that again.

EDIT: More Info

There are no NVIDIA listings under "Uninstall a Program" in the Control Panel. Yet the "NVIDIA Control Panel" app is still in the start menu, but does not start. I believe that is because there are just three DLL files in C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\coprocmanager, and no other files/directories in coprocmanager's parent directory.

When the driver is installing, my second monitor starts working, and then stops when the installation fails.

When the driver is installing, it briefly appears as "NVIDIA GeForce GT 720" in Device manager, after it fails, it goes back to being labeled, quite simply, "Display".

Tried running...

..to no avail.

PC Specs (from Speccy):

• Custom build
  
• NVIDIA GeForce GT720 (not from Speccy, since it just lists the monitor under Graphics).
  
• Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.20GHz
  
• 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (11-11-11-28)
  
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