Vista - Latest NVIDIA ForceWare Video Drivers

Yes it was in safe mode, and I waited over an hour for it to finish after freezing right there.. are you telling me you let yours sit there for THAT long??

I tried 185.66 twice, neither time worked. I then went ahead and downloadd and installed 182.50 the WHQL signed and they are working fine.

Well, I was off doing something for a bit when I ran the driver installation from within Windows 7. However, I think it only took around 15 minutes before it gave the error and finished after restarting. I cannot remember what service it said that it could not get started causing the delay though.

I got that error when I tried installing previous drivers in safe mode, and when I rebooted the control panel wasn't installed properly, so I had to reinstall in normal mode.

wow, ive just had a blue screen from my Nvidia driver, first one ever on my rig, using 182.50. kinda worried me a bit

Anyone else having problems with this latest whql release 182.5?? It seems to have screwed my system up BIG TIME. Freezing, BSOD, 100% CPU and errors with nvlddmk.sys and can't find NvMcTray.dll. Have uninstalled and used DriverCleaner to remove any traces in Safe Mode and re-installed, all with no success. Worse still, it shows same problems with a revert to previous driver. I looked at the nvlddmk file in system32/driver and made sure it had gone before re-install. I am just doing a CHKDSK but would appreciate some urgent comments

Thanks
Kotuku

Hello Kotuku,

You might see if you have better luck with the 185.66 beta version.

Thanks Brink, I am desperate enough to try anything!

I should have added in previous post that System restore didn't work either!

185.66 wouldn't install for me, first Nvidia driver to NOT install for me.. but 182.50 did, and is working perfect, but I've not tried a game, so I don't know if I'll get a Nvidia error, or BSOD while gaming or not, but I usually don't.

OK, well the beta driver didn't install and I couldn't install ANY previous Vista driver, so I have reformatted and am currently reinstalling all the updates for everything. In the end a quick reformat and get the data back is the quickest way to go. I did have complete backups, but I am concerned that what ever caused this meltdown is in the backups. I am pretty sure it isn't any virus, it totally happened when I installed 182.5

<sigh>

I am starting to remember why I liked ATI many years ago!

You know. when it comes to new drivers, I am like a kid in a candy store... all over them.

Lately though, I have my reservations about it and unless I am having a problem with the current driver, I will hesitate to update to the new one as I just think that they are rushing this things out but I have no way to back this up.