HELP! GTX 760 driver problems, I've looked everywhere.

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thomaswde

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Here goes...
My system:
OS: Win 8.1 x64
MoBo: MSi G45 Z87
CPU: i5 4670k
RAM: 8GB
Yada yada yada

Okay, everything was working great running integrated graphics waiting on my GPU to arrive. It came in yesterday ,just in time for Titanfall :)

Now the problem: I installed my MSi GTX 760 2GB OC then booted with with HDMI output from the GPU. Everything kicked on great and Windows booted in low res as expected. Windows detected new hardware and began auto install of drivers. I cancelled this and used the included drivers disc to install the Nvidia drivers. Driver installation failed on express settings. I then re-tried using the clean install option. Failed. I then tried uninstalling all Nvidia software from my system, running DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) to clean up, shut down, reboot, and tried again. Failed. I've used CCleaner, driver cleaners, tried installing the version on the disc, the newest version from Nvidia's website, everything. Always fails. Now, it is running off the windows basic display driver but still outputting thru the card, it no longer tries to install new hardware and I can seem to make it recognize the card at all, even Nvidia experience says I do not have a GPU installed. I'd really rather not go jerking hardware back out or doing a sys restore if I can avoid it but am about ready to try anything. Not a huge fan of Titanfall just sitting there not getting played ;)
 
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I was really trying to avoid that and with regard to the time I invested it probably would have been more efficient. This is what ended up working for me as of about 1am last night. Posting it in case someone like me is browsing for an answer:

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING USE WINDOWS UPDATE TO FULLY UPDATE YOUR MACHINE, THIS IS IMPORTANT.
1. Use GeForce Experience to download current Nvidia driver then select "Clean Install", this will fail however it will succeed in resetting the device to being an unknown display.
2. Restart.
3. Go into the "Device Manager" and right click the display device and choose update driver. Browse manually to the Nvidia folder on your machine where the updated proper driver has been installed and select it. This...
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thomaswde

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Thanks for the shot but that is way back there in the list of things I've already tried. This has really got me fairly befuddled. Since this post I've managed to get my system to recognize the device as a "Nvidia GTX 760" by using the Nvidia updater to run a "clean install" which still fails but it uninstalls the previous drivers first, then going to "device manager" and letting it find drivers. If I try to manually install the driver by selecting the path it fails, but if I let it find it's own it installs this old one. (it defaults to 331.65 and I'm trying to update to 335.23 (released yesterday). At least I've got a working card now, just wish I could figure out how to run a version made in the last two years, haha.
 
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thomaswde

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I was really trying to avoid that and with regard to the time I invested it probably would have been more efficient. This is what ended up working for me as of about 1am last night. Posting it in case someone like me is browsing for an answer:

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING USE WINDOWS UPDATE TO FULLY UPDATE YOUR MACHINE, THIS IS IMPORTANT.
1. Use GeForce Experience to download current Nvidia driver then select "Clean Install", this will fail however it will succeed in resetting the device to being an unknown display.
2. Restart.
3. Go into the "Device Manager" and right click the display device and choose update driver. Browse manually to the Nvidia folder on your machine where the updated proper driver has been installed and select it. This may or may not work but it should at least identify the device as a discreet graphics card, in my case GeForce GTX 760.
4. If that did fail try right clicking and letting Windows find the driver, hopefully it will install driver version 331 which is the Nvidia driver that came out around the same time as BF4. If this works, and it took me a few tries to get it to, 5. Restart.
6. Go back to "Device Manager" and right click the now functional GeForce graphics card and choose update driver, browse to the current version that is installed under the Nvidia folder tree in your local drive. Install.
7. If this worked, Restart.

Told you it would have been easier just to reinstall windows, haha. I'm just happy shit works now.
 
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I'm having this exact problem on my wife's dell 435t/9000. It worked fine until last week then the display driver just died. I tried clean installs with various drivers. Tried letting the pc find its own driver. As you said the only thing logical left to do is a clean install of windows, but I've "misplaced" my old install disk.
I guess it'd be a great excuse to build her a rig. That ole @920 is still going strong though and that tri channel 9gb 1066 ram lol..
 
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