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April 10, 2013 4:13:28 PM

Greetings,

I recently purchased a new graphics card (GTX 660Ti)and a new hard drive. I am having a common problem with NVIDIA drivers which consists of the problem in which when you run the driver installer you receive a message the message "NVIDIA Installer Failed".

I have a totally empty hard drive with just Windows 7 Installed, so it makes a lot of "fixes" irrelevant because they include clearing driver folders.

Got any suggestions?
Thanks,

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April 10, 2013 4:20:17 PM

1) Open a command prompt with administrative priviledges and run "sfc /scannow"
2) Re-download the driver from the official Nvidia site or install it from a disk if you have it and upgrade to the newest version.
3) Run Windows updates if you haven't already.
4) Contact Nvidia.
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April 10, 2013 4:51:42 PM

did you have AV program installed? if yes temporarily disable it before installing the driver. last time i have a such a problem my AV screwed it up for me
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December 2, 2013 5:20:27 PM

FireballRoberts said:
Greetings,

I recently purchased a new graphics card (GTX 660Ti)and a new hard drive. I am having a common problem with NVIDIA drivers which consists of the problem in which when you run the driver installer you receive a message the message "NVIDIA Installer Failed".

I have a totally empty hard drive with just Windows 7 Installed, so it makes a lot of "fixes" irrelevant because they include clearing driver folders.

Got any suggestions?
Thanks,

You have probably sorted it by now but just in case you haven't here is the solution, you don't need sfc /scannow or any registry cleaner, you need to delete the Nvidia Corporation file from your program files in win 32 x86 in 64 bit it will be in Program files and Program file x86, but before this you need to go to control panel, User account and family safety/ User accounts/ change user account control settings/ and move the slider down to never notify, a restart is necessary after this, if you do not do this first it will say you do not have permission, then you can delete the files and you will have no problem installing Nvidia after this, but remember to put your User account back to default afterwards.
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September 24, 2014 6:32:47 AM

I use Windows 8.1 Pro 64 bit and have a Galaxy GTX 760 GC card and was trying to upgrade to 344.11 and kept getting
the 'Nvidia installer failed' message. After reading forum after forum and running DriverSweeper, running in Safe Mode,

going into the registery and deleteing anything that referenced Nvidia, trying to install older versions even

the one I was using previously, 'Run as Administrator', manually installing the driver through the 'Device Manager',

the driver in Windows update wouldn't install either . Nothing worked so after several days of reading forums

and trying everything I could think of I was about ready to yank the card out and throw it in the trash and

go buy an Radeon. What finally worked for me was I thought I would go into Run/msconfig and see what programs

were running and possibly preventing the driver from installing. I noticed on the 'General Tab' 'Selective

startup' was selected so I thought I would try 'Normal startup' and after rebooting I was able to install the

driver with no problems. Hopefully this will help someone.
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