NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M Driver not installing

[jm57]

I am trying to install the new driver for my NVIDIA graphics card, but I can't seem to get it to work. I tried downloading it from both NVIDIA and Toshiba but neither will work. When I use the download from NVIDIA it will run perfectly and even say that the driver has been successfully installed. However whenever I restart and check NVIDIA control panel it still indicates that I have the old driver installed. Whenever I use the download directly from toshiba, it will start the archive extractor process but as soon as it is finished extracting and is supposed to launch the setup, it does not. It will just end right there for no reason. I have tried installing it in safe mode, safe mode with networking etc. but nothing will work. Any suggestions/help is appreciated.

Thanks

[patio]

Laptop drivers should ONLY come direct from the laptop manuf.....Period.

This is true with ALL laptop machines.

[Computer_Commando]

Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit?  Are you sure you have downloaded the proper driver for the hardware you have?

[jm57]

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit. I first tried downloading it from Toshiba directly, but every time I try this the setup will never launch. This is the only reason I tried the NVIDIA download, as it has worked in the past. However this time neither will work.

[patio]

Re-install your MBoard chipset drivers from the Toshiba Driver CD ...re-boot and retry the Toshiba vid drivers...

[Computer_Commando]

The GeForce GT 330M  direct from nVIDIA for latest drivers says "...Automatically Find Drivers For My NVIDIA-Powered Notebook...."

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook_drivers.html

If you have the incorrect one now, it's going to find the incorrect one there.  You need to select the proper download, not let it automatically find one.

It appears they don't have one:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=162180

[joe3fl]

Try disabling driver signing. Click start and type "gpedit.msc" Under user configuration expand Administrative Templates>System. Click "driver installation". Double click "code signing for device drivers" set to enable then on the drop down chose ignore. Just to make sure it takes effect, restart the computer. Try to re-install said driver. GOOD LUCK!

[jm57]

Thanks for everyone's help. Unfortunately I'm all out of ideas Nothing is working!
I contacted Toshiba customer service and they have yet to understand what is wrong with my computer/graphics card. One specialist reccomended I extract all the contents of the update to a temporary folder, and then run the setup from there by clicking the setup.exe. Doing this at least got the setup page to open for the first time, but once everything got started I immediately got this error message, "the nvidia setup program could not detect any drivers that are compatable with your current hardware". I have no idea why it's doing this I have the latest driver installed that was released before the one I'm trying to install. Anyways if anything I said helps with trying to solve the issue, I'll take anything at this point.

Thanks again everyone

[blumercury]

Hi. Don't feel too bad. I'm having the same problem so I'm guessing it's not just us.

I bought my computer from Office Depot. It's a Toshiba Satellite A665-S6067 with Windows 7 64bit. It has the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M installed and has an intel i7 processor.

Sounds pretty good right? But as soon as I turned it on it showed me that the display adapter was not working properly. Code 43. I tried downloading all the new drivers and updates I could think of but none would install. I had the exact same problems you did with the toshiba installer and the nvidia one. I'm supposed to have a control panel and all this other good stuff but none of it will install. I just keep installing the same audio drivers over and over with no display. So now I just have to deal with the VGA adapter that adam and eve used and random computer freezing.

I think our best bet is to have Toshiba replace our video cards. It's not like I can boot from a start up disk because my computer didn't come with one and it started off broken already; reinstalling the same stuff will just get me back where i started. NVIDIA basically says on the site that if there are hardware problems to contact the manufacturers (and Toshiba is not even on the dang manufacturer list!) because they probably don't want to be responsible if they tear up something in the computer when trying to fix it. I think NVIDIA cards are allergic to Toshiba. -_-