New Graphics Card drivers won't install and card isn't being detected by system

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I recently bought a pny nvidia geforce gt 730 graphics card. I installed it and the monitor works but when I tried to install the drivers I keep being told "installed graphics adapter: not found". When I look in the graphics manager I also can't find a display or video adapter.
 
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what are your system specs. model of pc, mobo, cpu, etc
 
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PC model: HP Pavillion p6802
Motherboard: N-Alvorix-RS880-uATX (Alvorix)
CPU: AMD Athlon II x2 270 processor (2 CPUs) 3.4GHz
Memory: 4 gigabytes gddr3 ram
OS: Windows 7 home premium 64 bit
 
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did you check hp website for most current bios for for pc???
 
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There website has two bios update options one for a:

H-RS880-UATX Motherboard

And another for a:

N-Alvorix-RS880 Motherboard

But my board says on it that its a.

H-Alvorix-rs880-uatx

So I'm not sure if those bios updates will work on it.

 
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Requirements: Minimum of a 300 Watt power supply.(Minimum recommended power supply with +12 Volt current rating of 20 Amps.)
 
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After 6 days of suffering and asking no less than four certified computer technicians what the problem was I ended up finally figuring it. The answer is Microsoft developers are idiots.

Whenever my graphics card was installed onto my computer Windows update would install drivers for it. These drivers are garbage drivers that are not only incompatible with my graphics card but prevent Nvidia graphics drivers from recognizing it. Whats more if you uninstall them they will always reinstall themselves on reboot. And there is no normal way to turn this off because the setting for turning off drivers only effects online drivers. It doesn't effect drivers that are already on your hard drive like these. The only way I could stop them was to kill the drvinst process before it could finish installing bad drivers.

After that I was able to install the Nvidia graphics drivers. Except the SATAN drivers would install themselves again causing Nvidia to no longer recognize my graphics card and resulting in the monitor going blank. I couldn't find any way to to permanently uninstall the DEATH drivers from my system (though I eventually hope do so) so I installed a process blocking program and so far my graphics card has been working fine.:wahoo:
 
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