Win10 nvidia driver problems

Operating Systems & Open Source Windows
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Hi Guys,

Edit :
turns out, its a hardware problem, and not a driver problem.
Edit 2:
Thanks to everyone who participated!

Original Post:
i'm stuck and i need your help.
windows 10 fucked up.
My gfx card isn't usable, no nvidia video driver installed.

Gfx card is disabled because error 43 in device manager.

Geforce Experience couldn't install a driver, after install, it just said, ther is a new version, install?
And now it can't even download.
After finishing download, it stops and gives me the option to download again.
No install option.

Manual install didn't do anything, still no driver installed.
it looks like win 10 just removes everything.

i'm just starting to remember why i switched to linux.

Anyone an idea how i can get the gfx working again in win10 ?

Thx!

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Have you tried a clean install?

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yes.
Same result.

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Welcome to windows 10 and the new nvidia drivers that have become crap.

Try manually installing the driver in device manager.

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haven't actually tried that, thanks. Ill have a try.

And yes, win 10 welcomes me, but i don't feel welcomed.
It greets you by the way.

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What card and which driver version are you installing? What's the power supply? Was this card used in a previous system / on a different windows version successfully?

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it is actually a laptop.
870m
and it was ok for like 1 month, while i fidled with the hardware.
but suddenly, driver has gone to hell.

Driver 376.09
@billgatez it sais, the optimal driver is already installed.

Yesterday was a geforce experience update. i noticed it after that.
probably that was what it fucked up.

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I recommend wiping the drivers and installing an older driver, something in the 374's.

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this is now a fresh install on a different drive. Nothing is on here. Barebones and not even registered win 10 pro.
just installed Geforce experience and bam, same problem.

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If the card is disabled in device manager drivers won't help. The card needs to be enabled first.

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through a restart, but the problem is drivers, and drivers get fucked by win 10.
Thats what i think and hope.

373 is installing.
windows detected a changed grahpics driver.
restart @Yoinkerman the card shouldn't be disabled no, its the nvidia driver and a restart.
and nope, still disabled gfx error 43.

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i just don't know whats wrong. The 870m worked just fine a while ago.
And right now, its turned off completely. -> error 43 -> shut it down.

Some parts of an nvidia driver seem to be there, but no controle-pannel, and geforce esperience makes those weird things it has never done before.

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I would try resetting the motherboard bios to stock.

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@thecaveman i don't see how that should help?
considering that its a laptop bios, its fairly limited, and i haven't changed anything in it.

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Yeah but the gfx card is usually a built in piece of a laptop, and it might be that the bios isn't communicating correctly with the operating system. That's my guess, and I don't see any other probable cause or point of failure that hasn't been checked over besides the physical machine itself. Fresh installs should cure any windows side error, now if that fails you should troubleshoot the hardware.

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Un install the Nvidia driver with DDU in safe mode. And be shure to check the box that turns off the windows driver install. Then try an older Nvidia driver or the new one.

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turns out, its a hardware problem.

I had it running for a moment, after reapplying the heat sink, but after a short benchmark it crashed, went bad again.
Ill update this, when i know what caused it.
And i will update the main post.

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In this source, you get know hot to fix Nvidia Driver Problem: http://wccftech.com/fix-windows-10-nvidia-driver-conflicts/

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Thanks for the late reply and necro but as in the edit of the main post, it was a hardware problem.

To be precise, it was a ball of solder stuck under the GPU shorting out a cap to ground.
It worked sometimes because the ball rolled around and only sometimes shorted out stuff, until he got stuck..

It got there through an unclean and untidy working environment.