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Hi everyone, I'm having a wierd problem.

I'm trying to install nVidias latest nforce drivers (4.27), however, after the part where I specify where to put the new files, the installer just dies. No crash error, no locking, it just vanishes. I go to the control panel to see if its made any changes, but none are apparent.

Any idea why these drivers apparently wont install? Or do I get to wait until their next nforce release?

What card do you have?

While I dont know what bearing my vid card would have on nForce (motherboard related) drivers, my card is a Ti4600, and the latest drivers for it installed fine. My motherboard is an MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR, based on the nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset.

readyman, nForce drivers are Motherboard drivers (and video if onboard)Forceware drivers are for video cards.

vander, have you tried installing in safemode?

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Vander!!!

I changed my f***ing name because I was sick of it, wether intentional or not. Call me pretty much anything else, but not that.

And no, I havnt. I'll try that sometime today.

hehe, if you haven't figured it out, we do it on purpose..

Anyway, you know the driver pack starts out installing by extracting itself to the c:\nvidia folder. Maybe the driver pack is doing that, but not starting the actual install process. Go in there and you will see the folder for the video drivers for your card, and another folder for the nforce drivers. Look for the setup and start it manually see if that helps.

vander ;P

If it's the selfextracting process that fails, well, that is just a glorified data-appended PKZip self-extractor. Use WinRAR, WinZIP or anything else that can read such archives and extract manually, see if that helps.

The extraction process succeeds, the install itself dies. Ive already ran the install program manually after extraction, several times.

Then nuke your machine and stop bothering us! I bet you even downloaded the file more than once and still it will not install! you have all the answers!

But heh, by any chance did you happen to read the note at the top of the 4.27 download page??

Nvidia.com wrote:Windows XP - Unified Driver

If you have previously downloaded the 4.24 English kit, there is no need to download this English kit below since it is the same drivers as in 4.24.

Avder wrote:Any idea why these drivers apparently wont install?

My previous version was 3.52. I havnt updated these drivers since december.

Go away mister cant calculate RAID properly.

Drivers went from 3.13 to 4.24 with a 64 bit BETA version inbetween.

Avder wrote:My previous version was 3.52.

3.13, whatever, I had the first number right. I was quoting from memory.

Have you tried going into device manager and updating each component manually?

I'll try that in a bit.

Safe mode idea didnt work, the installer did the same thing as in normal, so I went the do it yourself route and updated as many drivers as I could manually. I am really digging these ATA Drivers, noticeable performance difference on my 120G ATA133 drive already. I do wish I could get the complete package installed, supposedly theres some more control programs in the thing. I tried manually installing a few of them but no joy. Oh well.