driver Nvidia Driver issues with Win 10 Pro. Help!

[KingCollins]

Hi guys, this is my first post on LTT. I rarely have issues with my PC but now that I have one I could only think of one place to ask for help!

 

Recently I have been having issues with what I believe is driver problems for my GTX960. I first noticed it with Youtube where I would be skipping through a video and then the video would hang, no big deal, just refresh the page and carry on from where I left off.

 

Bare in mind I am currently running Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview.

 

But now it is much more present. Last night I powered on my machine, went to log into the front end gui of my FreeNAS machine and the page didn't load. Then I attempted to load Plex, still nothing. I checked Facebook and Youtube, no problems only for the usual Youtube video freezing when I skip through. This was all done in the Chrome browser. I then proceeded to try Firefox and FF wouldn't even load Google.

 

VLC player also drops frames every 10 or so mins when playing a movie. 

 

This is where it gets weird, the first thing I though of was the graphics driver so I saw I was running the version 373.06. A newer 375.95 version so I opened GeForce Experience and went to download it, when it got to 100%, it would throw an error "Download has Failed". Ok, so then I downloaded the driver manually from Nvidia, when I went to run it, straight away it threw the error "Nvidia Package Manger has stopped working".

 

I tried different compatibility versions and also running as admin. I even tried downloading the Windows 7 version and still nothing. I also did this for an older 372.90 driver, same thing.

 

I manually uninstalled my current driver, and when I restarted my machine, Windows Update automatically installed the driver 372.90. Still seeing the same symptoms.

 

I have no idea where to go from here and I really don't want to do a complete Windows 10 reinstall. 

 

Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

System specs:

• Intel G3258 Oc'd to 4.7Ghz
• Corsair H100i GTX
• MSi Krait Z97S SLi
• 16Gb of generic Samsung 1366Mhz RAM
• Gigabyte G1 gaming GTX960 4GB
• 2x Seagate Barracuda 500Gb HDD
• 1x WD Green 1.5TB HDD
• Antec 750W High Current Pro 80+ Gold 

[jj9987]

Use Display Driver Uninstaller to clean all existing drivers and install a driver you know is known to be working fine. For me, 371.75 was the one.

[KingCollins]

3 hours ago, jj9987 said:

Use Display Driver Uninstaller to clean all existing drivers and install a driver you know is known to be working fine. For me, 371.75 was the one.

Thanks man. I will give this a shot and let you know.

[KingCollins]

@jj9987 I think I have fixed it!

 

I rolled back my build of Windows 10 Insider Preview.

 

I then had to reinstall Chrome because I think it was corrupting the downloads (I got an error when trying to extract DDU).

 

I finally used DDU and removed the driver.

 

Installed 375.95 and taada! Works again.

 

Thanks dude