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Try downloading Nvidia GeForce Experience, let it select the best driver for you, and then do a express installation, I had similar problems finding a driver for my old graphics card and this method worked great.

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Alright I've got a gem here for someone. Im trying to repair my parents computer. It is a Q9650 with i believe a 9800gt for a gpu. The OS dive failed and seeing as it was a 500gb HDD that was dedicated for their OS, i bought them a 240gb SSD and a 1TB HDD for extra storage. I installed a fresh copy of windows onto the ssd and now I am incapable of getting the nvidia drivers to install. Fails on graphics drivers every time. I am fairly confident i downloaded the correct file as their gpu is listed in the supported hardware section. The auto detect function of nvidias website is also not functioning regardless of how many times I unistall and reinstall java. Any advice would be splendid as this was supposed to be a simple fix and is proving to be outside my comfort zone

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Try downloading Nvidia GeForce Experience, let it select the best driver for you, and then do a express installation, I had similar problems finding a driver for my old graphics card and this method worked great.

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18 minutes ago, SALEEN961 said:

Try downloading Nvidia GeForce Experience, let it select the best driver for you, and then do a express installation, I had similar problems finding a driver for my old graphics card and this method worked great.

Thanks dude, this worked for me as well :)

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23 minutes ago, SALEEN961 said:

Try downloading Nvidia GeForce Experience, let it select the best driver for you, and then do a express installation, I had similar problems finding a driver for my old graphics card and this method worked great.

You can just look up the graphics card using NVIDIA's tool on their website, and select the latest driver from there. 

 

This is the latest driver available for the video card:

https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/112596

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5 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

You can just look up the graphics card using NVIDIA's tool on their website, and select the latest driver from there. 

 

This is the latest driver available for the video card:

https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/112596

I had issues downloading the driver from the Nvidia website back when I was using my 550TI last year, the auto-detect function didn't work for my GPU, and when manually entering my GPU I got a different driver from what GeForce Experience selected and only the GFE driver worked, but it does look like the website has improved since I last used it, maybe it would work better now.

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1 minute ago, SALEEN961 said:

I had issues downloading the driver from the Nvidia website back when I was using my 550TI last year, the auto-detect function didn't work for my GPU, and when manually entering my GPU I got a different driver from what GeForce Experience selected and only the GFE driver worked, but it does look like the website has improved since I last used it, maybe it would work better now.

I have only used the website personally to download drivers, even after GFE was released. I've also never used the auto-detect function either.

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14 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

I have only used the website personally to download drivers, even after GFE was released. I've also never used the auto-detect function either.

I can confirm that for hardware this old, the driver selection download does not work. This may be specific to my case, however GFE did get the drivers installed successfully 

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1 minute ago, pjsmith727 said:

I can confirm that for hardware this old, the driver selection download does not work. This may be specific to my case, however GFE did get the drivers installed successfully 

How did you select it? Did you use auto-detection or select things manually? And which OS are you installing it on? The link I provided was for Windows 10.

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2 minutes ago, Godlygamer23 said:

How did you select it? Did you use auto-detection or select things manually? And which OS are you installing it on? The link I provided was for Windows 10.

I selected it manually and selected the windows 10 64 bit version. It’s spits out 342.01 which fails to install on every attempt. Have some faith I did assemble the whole pc, this is not my first rodeo lmao

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1 minute ago, pjsmith727 said:

I selected it manually and selected the windows 10 64 bit version. It’s spits out 342.01 which fails to install on every attempt. Have some faith I did assemble the whole pc, this is not my first rodeo lmao

Are you actually using Windows 10 though? And 64-bit at that?

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On 12/22/2017 at 12:29 AM, Godlygamer23 said:

Are you actually using Windows 10 though? And 64-bit at that?

yes and yes. I installed a brand new copy not 20 minutes before trying to install the drivers. Im fairly confident my memory serves me well enough to remember what i installed

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