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So i have been having some issues with the new nvidia drivers recently. After a few days my computer finally stopped working, would turn on but no screen. I had to go into safe mode and uninstall any nvidia drivers and used DDU and started fresh with a clean install. So I can get on my computer now. But everytime I try to update my drivers, it starts to update and after a minute or so, it turns off. So i have to restart it each time and see what I could do different. I dont want to buy a new video card if I dont have to. And I also updated to Windows 10 not to long ago. seems like it is having problems.. maybe I am wrong

PC Spec
Z77-D3H (Intel Core i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz)
EVGA GTX 560 ti
8 gig Ram
windows 10 pro 64 bit
 
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Okay, one more thing to try before I'm calling it quits. Also bear in mind that the 560ti is a 5 year old card, so it very well may be going out.
Uninstall the drivers and all Nvidia programs from normal mode. Reboot. Delete all of the Nvidia folders from your program files directories, your documents directory, and your appdata directories (%appdata% and %localappdata%). That should effectively delete the settings.
Reboot again. Open device manager, and open the display adapter section. Right click the GPU and tell it to update the driver. Tell it to search manually for the driver. Browse it to C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver and make sure search subfolders is on. It should install the driver and only the driver this way. Reboot again. After...
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First, boot into safe mode. Try installing the drivers from there, using the "clean install" option.
Note that not all parts of the installation are done this way, so run the install again from normal mode to install things like PhysX.
 
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KK I didn't know I could install my graphics card driver in safe mode. I will give that a try.. Usually when I did install. I would install only the main driver and nothing else and used clean install as well. It would still turn off on me. Regardless what version of the driver. Brb though
 
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No luck. I tried installed the driver I got from the manufactured website on safe mode. and while it was doing its thing. It said "NVIDIA installer cannot continue - Microsoft Visual C++ resdistributable packages for Visual Studio cannot be installed in safe mode..
 
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Try it with only the drivers checked, not the control panel etc. If that works do the full install from normal mode.
 
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That's the thing. I downloaded the driver from the Nvidia site. And when I was in safe mode. I just clicked it, it started doing its thing. and before it goes to the point where I can check if I wanted express or custom installation. I got that error prior to that. So unless there is another way to install that drive in safe mode.
 
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This is turning into quite the tail chase, running in circles, isn't it?
From normal mode try installing the Visual Studio packages manually, from here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40784
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632
I don't think it'll need 2008, but here's that too: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29
 
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:( so ya, in safe mode. I installed everythign you told me to. So when I click on the driver it gives me different segmetns it will run it. meaning it has to do a "System check than a License Agreement then Options than Install than Finish" So while it does its System check, i got the error again of "Microsoft Visual C++ resdistributable packages for Visual Studio cannot be installed in safe mode"

so I am not sure where to go with this. I am thinking maybe its my video card thats dead. When I try to install Out of safe mode I do not get this error but when after i choose my option on how to install it does turn off mid installation.
 
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Okay, one more thing to try before I'm calling it quits. Also bear in mind that the 560ti is a 5 year old card, so it very well may be going out.
Uninstall the drivers and all Nvidia programs from normal mode. Reboot. Delete all of the Nvidia folders from your program files directories, your documents directory, and your appdata directories (%appdata% and %localappdata%). That should effectively delete the settings.
Reboot again. Open device manager, and open the display adapter section. Right click the GPU and tell it to update the driver. Tell it to search manually for the driver. Browse it to C:\NVIDIA\DisplayDriver and make sure search subfolders is on. It should install the driver and only the driver this way. Reboot again. After you're back in Windows, try to run the full installer again.
 
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