nVidia Driver Disappearing in Windows 7!

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Jacez44

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After a few hours of installing any set of drivers, they simply disappear.

Using Windows 7 beta 7057.

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Jacez44 said:
After a few hours of installing any set of drivers, they simply disappear.

Using Windows 7 beta 7057.

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I've had a similar experience. I haven't found the cure yet, but I did just get 7077, so I'll report back.
 
I had a problem starting with the 182.06 drivers. Every time I restarted Windows Vista 32 it would act like the drivers were not installed and reinstall the default ones. After searching the internet and contacting Nvidia the only solution seemed to be restoring my PC back to a time before the install. It took me a couple of weeks to troubleshoot and the restore wouldn't go back that far. Luckily, I run Windows Home Server and it had older backups I could restore.

I tried driver cleaners in Safe mode and several other suggestions. None of them worked. It was like the drivers screwed up something in the registery that an uninstall and driversweep wouldn't catch. I tried updating to the next drivers but the problem persisted. This issue sounds somewhat similar.

Good luck. If you still have a restore point before the installation, you may want to roll back now. The restore points get replaced fairly quickly.
 
I have no idea what's wrong, however this could make a really neat party trick! :D
 
If you're running Win7, why not use beta display drivers as well? Try 185 drivers and see if the issue is the same.
 
Did you upgrade to that 7057 or was it clean? if it was an upgrade weird things like that have popped up on some machines.
 
I saw this once with 7068 x64 and the win7x64 nvidia driver. A restart fixed the issue. But 7068 has shown a few other hardware driver issues also, at least in my machine.
 
A restart does not fix my issue, and I've re-installed Windows 7 [7057] but the problem persisted.

Now, I'm going to install build v.7077 and if that doesn't finally work I'll go back to Windows Vista.
 
Now with 7077 and everything is faster with no issues. I don't know what was changed but I like it.
 
Jacez44 said:
If I have 7057, do I have to perform a clean install or can I just upgrade?
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I did a clean install and reformat, IMO it is the best and easiest.

You do a clean install but not reformat the C drive and it will save your old install in a folder windows.old then you can copy your data from there. You still will have to reinstall your programs.
 
caniba said:
I did a clean install and reformat, IMO it is the best and easiest.

You do a clean install but not reformat the C drive and it will save your old install in a folder windows.old then you can copy your data from there. You still will have to reinstall your programs.
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Then what's the point? Might as well format the partition.

Well, as soon as it finished downloading, I'm going to try 7077.

But if it doesn't work.. I'm not sticking with Windows 7 when I can't play games, and now.. even movies for some reason.
 
Maybe use the actual Windows 7 drivers rather than Vista drivers? They are not the same, that's why they have different downloads.
 
bigdogchris said:
Maybe use the actual Windows 7 drivers rather than Vista drivers? They are not the same, that's why they have different downloads.
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Yeah, that's what I've been doing. Not that it matters - even if I use Vista drivers, they still disappear.
 
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