catastrophic failure after failing to update to the latest 368.22 driver

Desmond S

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My graphics card is a g1 970. It's been working fine until i just tried to update from 364.72 to the latest 368.22 driver. On the Current Driver it said "none", which is weird because I have been running on 364.72 and gaming with it without any problems. I began to install the driver, and when it hit around 1/3 of the progress bar the screen just went black and wouldn't come back.

I rebooted my pc and screen resolution has already been switched to 800x600 and the driver seemed to be uninstalled. I tried to install the new driver again and it failed. I also tried to manually install it through windows device manager and it showed something as follows:

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Recent hardware changes: a new power supply cooler master v550 and samsung 850evo 500gb bought and installed a week ago, still running fine.

I used samsung's software to migrate my windows 7 64bit to the ssd.

I also went to the windows uninstaller and found that the old driver 364.72 was still there but i could not modify nor delete it as it said certain files are not found. Then I used Display Driver Uninstaller to wipe out the obsolete files and attempted to install different versions of Nvidia driver (364.72, 365.19, 368.22) but they all failed.

Finally i opened my case and unplug and replug in the card. No smell, light is on, fans are spinning. But driver installation still failed.



Any help is appreciated.