Graphics drivers will not install

[TheRandomness]

I've tried both AMD (16.12.1) and Nvidia (373.06 and 376.48) drivers (each card separately, R9 290 and GTX 750Ti) and every time I've tried it will pause for a bit at the 'Installing Graphics Drivers' section before jumping straight to the end and failing. Each time I've tried I've used DDU to remove the failed installations but nothing else seems to be working. Also, Device Manager says that (in the properties of the card after the failed installation) that the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

I've tried both AMD (16.12.1) and Nvidia (373.06 and 376.48) drivers (each card separately, R9 290 and GTX 750Ti) and every time I've tried it will pause for a bit at the 'Installing Graphics Drivers' section before jumping straight to the end and failing. Each time I've tried I've used DDU to remove the failed installations but nothing else seems to be working. Also, Device Manager says that (in the properties of the card after the failed installation) that the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

Did you use DDU in safe mode using the onboard graphics during all of the process? I personally always remove the old GPU and don't install the new one before wiping all drivers first (using the onboard), then I install the new GPU and still use the onboard first to install its proper drivers only when its done I go and use it, doing this way always ensured me everything went correctly.

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Did you use DDU in safe mode using the onboard graphics during all of the process? I personally always remove the old GPU and don't install the new one before wiping all drivers first (using the onboard), then I install the new GPU and still use the onboard first to install its proper drivers only when its done I go and use it, doing this way always ensured me everything went correctly.

Yes to safe mode but no to onboard graphics. I'll try that in a bit.

[TheRandomness]

32 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Did you use DDU in safe mode using the onboard graphics during all of the process? I personally always remove the old GPU and don't install the new one before wiping all drivers first (using the onboard), then I install the new GPU and still use the onboard first to install its proper drivers only when its done I go and use it, doing this way always ensured me everything went correctly.

Well I'll be damned, it worked

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

Well I'll be damned, it worked

Sometimes when you try to do the process already through the GPU it'll force it to install the generic drivers so it can display the video and in some cases such generic drivers can cause interference with the ones you're trying to install for it, my brother had very similar issue when updating from a GTX 560 to a GTX 980 and  when we done the process through onboard buumm it worked too [:

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Sometimes when you try to do the process already through the GPU it'll force it to install the generic drivers so it can display the video and in some cases such generic drivers can cause interference with the ones you're trying to install for it, my brother had very similar issue when updating from a GTX 560 to a GTX 980 and  when we done the process through onboard buumm it worked too [:

Well, now I'll just repeat for 376.48  And for the 750 Ti, instead of this 730 I had lying around c:

[TheRandomness]

1 hour ago, Princess Cadence said:

Sometimes when you try to do the process already through the GPU it'll force it to install the generic drivers so it can display the video and in some cases such generic drivers can cause interference with the ones you're trying to install for it, my brother had very similar issue when updating from a GTX 560 to a GTX 980 and  when we done the process through onboard buumm it worked too [:

Well shit. It's just giving that now, every time.

[Princess Luna]

5 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

Well shit. It's just giving that now, every time.

I would transfer your both temp and tmp folders away from the boot ssd to one of your storage HDD, not only that makes your ssd write more than what it needs I have read quite a few articles suggesting other gains from removing such folders from the boot device.

[TheRandomness]

25 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I would transfer your both temp and tmp folders away from the boot ssd to one of your storage HDD, not only that makes your ssd write more than what it needs I have read quite a few articles suggesting other gains from removing such folders from the boot device.

It says that I require permission to do so, even though this account is an administrator account..

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

It says that I require permission to do so, even though this account is an administrator account..

This is awfully weird, seems like an issue with the windows, I have been thinking and that error does seem like an error that would happen if you dont have a full privilege account on windows, you could try using windows built in ADM account but if the error persists this is a problem on windows itself and then out of my league of advising

[TheRandomness]

6 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

This is awfully weird, seems like an issue with the windows, I have been thinking and that error does seem like an error that would happen if you dont have a full privilege account on windows, you could try using windows built in ADM account but if the error persists this is a problem on windows itself and then out of my league of advising

I think I might just reinstall windows at this point, it'd take less time and be easier...

 

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

I think I might just reinstall windows at this point, it'd take less time and be easier...

 

It is what I would do if I was in your shoes, Im sorry you got into so much trouble...

[TheRandomness]

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

It is what I would do if I was in your shoes, Im sorry you got into so much trouble...

I'm still completely unsure of why this happened  Ah well, my SSD was nearly full anyway, I guess it's time for a reinstall.