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I think we have all encountered a situation where the driver does not want to be installed. This article will talk about why drivers are not installed. The article is a review, but, nevertheless, it may be able to help you in some cases. If you have a problem installing the driver for your Nvidia video card, then here is a specific article for you: “”. By the way, if you have a laptop, then before installing the Nvidia driver, you may need to install the Intel driver first.

Let me start with the fact that without drivers it is impossible for any operating system to work. All devices - keyboard, mouse, HDD, DVD, etc. communicate with the system via drivers. Even if the system does not ask for them, this does not mean that the device does not need them to work in your computer or laptop.

In Windows 7 and 8 (after XP), drivers began to be added to the system installation package. On the one hand, this is not bad - there is no need to surf the Internet and look for the necessary drivers. But on the other hand, this approach has greatly reduced the computer literacy of users and, in addition, drivers from the hardware manufacturer are much preferable because provide more flexible configuration, and therefore better performance of the computer and device. As a result, we got a simpler installation, but we forgot that you can install this or that driver yourself.

The above does not apply to those people who worked in Windows XP and also to those who found Windows 2000 (oh, it was a cool system at that time). When Windows XP came out, I tore through Windows 2000 with a creaky heart.

Everyone needs to know the driver installation procedure! After all, when working with a computer, different situations arise that sometimes need to be resolved manually. And in order to understand what you are doing, you need to know the process a little and then you will succeed.

I’ll say right away that when installing drivers automatically, sometimes the wrong drivers are installed that your device needs, for example, drivers for a video card. Therefore, before installing drivers, you must know the model of your device, and then proceed with the installation.

I talked about what a driver is and how to install them in the article: “”. Here I have told you several ways to install drivers, so this information can be very useful for you.

What system do you have installed?

Before you install drivers, you need to clarify what bitness is in your operating system. The article “” will help you with this. Also, when downloading drivers, you should know which Windows you have installed. I mean the version. If you need to install a driver for Windows 7, then you must download the driver specifically for this system.

Sometimes this is not required, since the installation file contains all the necessary drivers for different versions of systems. But to be sure, it’s better to download it specifically for your system.

And don’t forget that you need to download drivers from official sites, since resources where different drivers are collected may make mistakes, for example, make a typo in the Windows version. And then you will install a driver that is incompatible with your system. As you understand, information from the original source will be more truthful. Although this is not always true.

To find out what operating system you have, you need to right-click on your computer and select “Properties”.

A window will open from which you can find out the version of Windows and the bitness of the OS.

Now let me remind you of the points of standard driver installation:

• Find out the model of the device for which you need to install the driver;
• You need to find out what operating system you have;
• Go to the official website and download the driver, indicating your OS;
• Driver installation.

It seems like simple steps, but it is precisely because of the wrong choice of driver that conflicts occur during installation.

Administrator rights

If you do not have installation rights, then naturally you will not be able to install the driver, unless of course you know the administrator password. Sometimes users do not install drivers due to this reason, so let's do the following.

Right-click on the downloaded driver and select “Run as administrator”, then enter the administrator password.

After that, install the driver as usual.

Remove and reinstall drivers

You can try to remove the driver using standard Windows tools, unless of course it is in the list of installed programs, or use third-party software to remove drivers.

If you have ever uninstalled a program, then it will not be difficult for you to remove the driver through Windows tools. Namely: go to “Start” - “Control Panel” - “Programs and Features”. Next, a window will open in which you need to find the driver that needs to be removed and delete it.

But often drivers are not on this list, and therefore you can use special utilities. You can also remove the driver manually, but for inexperienced users this procedure will seem difficult, although everything is very simple and logical. Now I will give an example of removing drivers through a program that is considered popular for this task. It's called Driver Sweeper.

Note: You can also remove the driver under your account, but sometimes this cannot be done.

In order for you to navigate the program, you need to switch to Russian, since the default is English. To do this, click “Language” in the left menu and select “Russian”. To apply the changes, click the “Apply” button below.

Click "Analysis and Cleanup" to see which drivers you can remove. For example, I want to remove NVIDIA drivers. To do this, I check the boxes where I encounter this word.

After specifying the driver, we have 2 choices: “Analysis” – when we need to analyze it and “Cleaning” – when we need to remove it. Let me show you for clarity, click “Analysis”.

As you can see, the program has found: folders, files, as well as registry entries that relate to these drivers. After that, you can click “Cleanup”. In my opinion, “Analysis” is needed to check the program, for example, it may accidentally delete the wrong file and thereby disrupt the system. That is, after analysis, you must go through the list and make sure that it has selected the necessary drivers to remove.

Click "OK".

Now you need to wait a while for the program to remove the drivers. After this procedure, the program will ask you to restart your computer, which you do.

This program is not updated, but it removes drivers properly. If you can't remove drivers using this utility, you can try Driver Fusion. You'll get the hang of it quickly, as it works the same way as Driver Sweeper.

I’ll talk about manually removing drivers another time; I think that the programs will cope with this task, and you won’t have to mess around with Windows.

Non-working device

Unfortunately, nothing lasts forever and therefore the possibility that your device may fail should not be ruled out. In this case, the device can be disconnected from the computer or laptop and connected, for example, to another computer and checked for functionality.

A story from experience. One day, a friend contacted me with a problem - the sound in the laptop did not work. I tried everything, but I couldn’t restore the sound on the laptop. The verdict was reached - the sound card was damaged. Then I bought a new sound card at the nearest computer store, connected it, installed the drivers, and here we have the sound that we have been waiting for so long. I think you understand that this part of the article must also be taken into account.

By the way, there are useful articles about sound: “” and “”.

Windows problem

You can update Windows or try reinstalling Windows. I know that we all don’t like this procedure, but we need to look for a way out! And since Windows is very closely related to drivers and the operation of components, Windows can be a problematic part when drivers are not installed.

Attention! Be sure to use all the links I have provided in this article. These articles will help you with your problem, and you will also learn how to install drivers.

When installing Windows 7 on a brand new laptop from my Zalman ZM-VE200 external hard drive emulating a CD/DVD drive running via USB, I encountered an error. The system refused to install without finding the drivers required for installation. No amount of resetting BIOS settings, changing the order of boot disks, changing the installation disk/image to other editions, or changing a 32-bit system to a 64-bit one also helped.

A message popped up:

The required driver for the optical drive was not found. If you have a floppy CD, DVD, or USB flash drive with this driver, insert this media. Device drivers were not found. Verify that the installed media has the correct drivers and click OK. Note: If the Windows installation media is inserted into your CD/DVD drive, you may want to remove it while you perform this step.

Error installing Windows 7

The solution turned out to be simple: I switched the external hard drive to another USB and the download went through, the installation proceeded step by step, the problem was solved by itself

The problem lies in the new USB 3.0 interface, the ports are usually painted blue, be careful with them when installing Windows 7 from USB flash drives and USB hard drives

Possible causes and solutions:

1. Insert the installation flash drive into a regular USB 2.0 connector, and not into a USB 3.0. They are easy to distinguish by the color of the contacts: in 2.0 it is black, in 3.0 it is blue. Just don't plug into the blue connector. Look at the picture
   Windows 7 does not support USB 3.0 out of the box. Therefore, when installing from a flash drive, connect it to a USB 1.x/2.0 port. If you only have USB 3.0, you will have to stock up on drivers.
2. Try resetting the BIOS to factory settings. If the previous point does not help, try resetting the BIOS, this has helped many
3. Temporarily disable USB 3.0 in BIOS settings On some laptops and computers, it is possible to disable USB 3.0. via BIOS, and then the connector will work like a regular USB 2.0. Try to do this, install the system, and then return it back.
4. Don't use Windows builds. Only original images. Perhaps you are not installing the original Windows, but one modified by unknown “authors”. Many drivers and system programs could be removed from it, and a bunch of unnecessary programs could be added, so I advise you to find the original image: on torrents, on MSDN, on a licensed disk, etc.
5. Burn the installation disc at the minimum speed. If you burned the image to disk and cannot install it, then try burning the image again on a blank at the minimum speed - 1x, 2x or 4x. Oddly enough, but this also helps.
6. Download USB 3.0 drivers separately to a USB flash drive and point to them during installation. If none of the points help, then you will still have to download the USB 3.0 drivers, put them on a flash drive or hard drive and indicate where they are during installation. Then the installation will go like clockwork.
   Drivers for USB 3.0 can be downloaded from the USB 3.0 drivers link: Renasas Electronics* USB 3.0 Driver or on the website of other manufacturers
7. Try installing Windows from another USB flash drive It’s unlikely that it will help, but for some readers this was the only thing that helped. Let's leave this to the conscience of flash drive manufacturers or users who initially formatted flash drives incorrectly.

• I have three questions for the site administrator: How to install a sound driver? Second question: Where to download Realtek Manager? Third question: (there is a separate article) on the system unit? I had all this and it worked before reinstalling the system. A few days ago I had to reinstall Windows 7 and now there is no sound, the realtek manager is gone and the front soundbar is not working. I can't find the driver CD. You can, of course, call a specialist, but the prices are expensive, and I’m studying at school, and I want to figure it all out myself, because I managed to install the operating system myself. Edik.

Letter No. 2. I have a problem: I reinstalled the operating system and immediately a question arose how to install sound driver, the Windows 7 operating system found all other devices and the drivers were installed automatically, this can be seen in the device manager, but instead of my audio device it was written Audio device on the High Definition Audio bus and that’s it. According to your article, I determined - Device instance code (equipment ID) went to www.devid.info, pasted into the search field

HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0883&SUBSYS_1043829F&REV_1000 and clicked Search, after a few seconds the following result was obtained:

Realtek High Definition Audio
Manufacturer: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.

Operating system: Windows XP, Vista

I decided to call the wizard and he very simply installed the sound driver for me from his disk, but the Realtek manager did not appear for me and he and I were unable to turn on the front sound panel, although before reinstalling the system it worked and I connected it to it headphones. Tell me how to do everything right, you are also a master. Ilya.

How to install a sound driver

Note: Friends, in general there is a rule, immediately after installing the operating system, go to the website of your motherboard and download all the drivers (sound, network, etc.) from there, we even have a detailed article on this topic. If for some reason this did not work out for you, you can download the sound driver directly from the website of the manufacturer of the sound card built into your motherboard; in most cases, it will be a Realtek sound card, that is, read everything that is written below.

We take a computer with the same integrated (built-in) Realtek sound card into the motherboard in the form of a microcircuit, like our reader, and a newly installed operating system and Windows 7 without sound drivers (I deliberately did not install the driver for the sound device, we’ll install it together with you).
In device manager I have an item Sound, video and gaming devices and under it is a Device supporting High Definition Audio, indicating that the system contains a new generation audio device that supports the high-definition audio standard HD Audio, but there is no sound in the system, since a driver is not installed for this device.

Note: On older motherboards, instead of High Definition Audio, there may be AC’97, an outdated standard audio codec developed by Intel in 1997. But the sound subsystem built into our motherboard operates according to a newer standard - High Definition Audio or HD Audio. Intel High Definition Audio is a relatively new specification for audio codecs, developed by Intel in 2004, characterized by improved digital sound quality, an increased number of channels, and a higher bandwidth compared to AC"97.

• We determine the exact name of our sound card and, accordingly, exactly what driver we need.
• We find the driver on the official website of our sound card, download it and install it, if it is a realtek sound card driver, it must be accompanied by the official driver realtek manager will also be installed(no need to download it separately).
• In order for the front sound panel to work, we have to configure realtek manager, this is not difficult and in most cases is enough for the front sound panel to function normally. If we fail, we will have to enter the BIOS and set the Front Panel Type parameter - from HD Audio to AC-97 (all details below).

During the existence of the site, question How to install the driver for sound, was asked to me countless times, in addition, before writing the article, I specifically observed how an ordinary user searches for drivers on the Internet and came to the conclusion. People want to find drivers anywhere, but not on the official website of the device manufacturer. Why is this happening?

If the situation is, for example, with drivers for a video card, then it’s relatively simple, everyone knows about the existence of a Russian-language site, where everything is very simple and clear and even has its own program, by running which you can easily find out the exact name of your video card and select the necessary driver there . Naturally, on such a site it is not difficult for an ordinary user to download the required driver, this is undoubtedly a big plus for the creators of this site.

The situation is different with sound drivers, although here, too, there are only a few main manufacturers and the most important one, in my opinion, is Realtek; personally, I most often have to deal with searching for and installing drivers from this particular manufacturer. Indeed, the website www.realtek.com freezes periodically and does not support the Russian language, but you can still download drivers from it; personally, I have always succeeded.

Of course, first of all you need to know the name of your sound card. To accurately determine the name of almost any device connected to the motherboard, including built-in and discrete sound cards, you can use a simple, but nevertheless irreplaceable (for example, in my work) program called AIDA64 or you can use exactly the same Everest utility .

More exotic methods of determining the name of devices and searching for drivers for them by ID equipment code, using the site pcidatabase.com and www.devid.info, are given in our article How to find a driver by device code(link to the article above), we will not repeat ourselves, if everything written below does not help, you can read it.

So, let’s go to the official website of the AIDA64 program. Having been free in the recent past, it recently became paid, but you don’t need to buy it right away. For the first 30 days, the developer gives us the opportunity to use the program without any restrictions. It seems to me that this time is more than enough for us to determine the name of the device we need. If you like the program, then of course you can buy it.
On the official website of our program http://www.aida64.com/ click on the Download button,

You can download the program in the installer or in the archive, let's download it in the archive, click on AIDA64 Extreme Edition Trial version, ZIP package , Download .

We’ve downloaded it, now let’s unzip our program into some folder,

go to this folder, then run the file aida64.exe and our program starts

In the main program window, click Computer.

then Summary information

and we see everything that is installed inside the system unit: the name of the motherboard and its chipset, and we also see the name of the processor, video adapter, BIOS type, and so on.

Sound card as we see - Realtek ALC883 High Definition Audio.

Half the job is done, go to the official Realtek website - www.realtek.com. Many users complain that the Realtek website does not support the Russian language; you can get out of this situation by using the Google Chrome browser, it will easily translate everything for you.

Click Downloads

and choose High Definition Audio Codecs (Software)

Check the box I accept to the above and click Next

Why I chose High Definition Audio Codecs (Software) drivers. Because these Realtek sound drivers are universal in their kind. They support all new audio formats and are suitable for almost all Realtek High Definition Audio sound cards, including ours (highlighted in red). These drivers are intended for operating systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7/8 32-64bit.

• 1. Support Vista/Windows 7 WHQL: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC886, ALC887, ALC888, ALC889, ALC892, ALC899, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC670, ALC680 ALC260, ALC262,ALC267,ALC268,ALC269, ALC270, ALC272, ALC273, ALC275
• 2. Support Windows 2000/XP WHQL: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC886, ALC887, ALC888, ALC889, ALC892, ALC899, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC670, , ALC680 ALC260, ALC262, ALC267, ALC268, ALC269, ALC270, ALC272, ALC273, ALC275

In this window, you and I need to select the version of the sound driver installer to download, if you and I have one of the listed 32-bit operating systems installed: Vista, Windows7, Windows 8, then click on the first Description (description) of the table
If we have one of the 64-bit systems installed - Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, then click on the second Description of the table.
Accordingly, if you have 32-bit Windows 2000, Windows XP/2003 (32/64 bits) installed, then select the seventh position.

We have chosen our version of the operating system, for example, we have Windows 7-64-bit installed, now we select Site from which we will download, you can select any one, for example, located in China and left-click on it once.

Download the driver and run it.

Drivers are being installed into the operating system.

and Realtek Manager is installed along with the drivers. After restarting the computer, we will have sound in Windows.

In the device manager we see the version of our driver, it is the latest.

Read our next article -. Very convenient, I recommend it!

A driver is a program that is necessary for the operating system and various software applications to interact with hardware devices connected to it. Hardware components such as sound, video cards, printers, scanners and they all need a compatible driver for them to work properly.

All device drivers are designed for specific operating systems. For example, Windows XP drivers will be different from Windows Vista drivers. Therefore, it is necessary to take extra precautions when installing and updating device drivers because installing incorrect or incompatible drivers can not only damage the device but also your system.

Common Causes of Driver Errors

Some common causes of driver errors are listed below:

• You are trying to use a hardware device that is not properly connected to your computer.
• Two or more drivers on the system are incompatible with each other.
• The driver or drivers are installed that are not compatible with your system.
• There are unnecessary or outdated drivers on your PC.

Steps to fix driver errors
The first step in identifying a driver error is to ensure that the device is properly connected to your system. Many devices give connection errors, so check that your device is connected to your system correctly. Next, you need to make sure that there are no problems with the drivers. You can do this using the Device Manager utility that comes with your Windows computer system. You can open Device Manager by directly running devmgmt. msc from the command lineStart>Doneit. When you open Device Manager, you will see a list of all the devices connected to your system. You can easily identify a defective file because it will be marked with a yellow triangle with an exclamation mark inside. Right-click on a device to open its properties dialog box. In the properties dialog, check the section Device status on the tab Are common. Drivers are displayed on the Drivers tab of the properties window. Here, complete one of the following tasks:

• Check and Install Driver Updates: Outdated drivers are one of the main causes of driver errors. To solve this problem, click the button Update Driver.The Hardware Update Wizard will open. You can use the wizard to update the driver. It is recommended that you first download the driver update and save it to a convenient location on your hard drive and then start the update process because the update wizard will ask you to specify a location to install the update.

• Driver rollback: If you start receiving an error message shortly after installing a new update, then it is likely that the new update is buggy. To fix this problem, click the button Driver rollback to revert to your previous driver version.

• Uninstalling the driver: If there are problems with your current drivers - missing or corrupted files - then the best thing you can do is click Delete to uninstall the current driver, and then reinstall the driver again.

In case you are not sure what you are doing and if you find the above fixes a little difficult, then it is recommended that you choose a reliable driver scanning tool. Driver scanning tools are designed to check all device drivers and make sure they are not up-to-date. Whenever new updates are available, the driver scanner automatically downloads and installs the best updates on your computer.

When installing absolutely any software, various errors may occur. There is no template answer or advice for such cases. The occurrence of such problems depends on many different factors: software category, OS version, bit depth, presence of malware, and so on. Quite often, errors occur when installing software for nVidia video cards. It’s nVidia driver errors that we’ll talk about today. In this article we will look at the most popular of them and tell you about effective troubleshooting methods.

If you're having trouble installing drivers for your nVidia graphics card, don't despair. Perhaps our lesson will help you get rid of the error. So let's get started.

Error 1: nVidia installer failed

This error is the most common problem with installing nVidia software. Please note that the example shows four items, but you may have more or less. The essence in all cases will be the same - a software failure. There are several ways to try to fix the error.

Installing official drivers.

Do not under any circumstances try to install software that was downloaded from dubious and unverified sites. For these purposes there is. If you downloaded drivers from other sources, then visit the nVidia website and download the software from there. It is best to download and install the latest drivers.

Cleaning the system from old versions of drivers.

To do this, it is better to use specialized programs that will remove old drivers from absolutely everywhere. We recommend using the Display Driver Uninstaller or DDU utility to do this.

Virus software and antivirus.

In rare cases, the above error may be caused by a virus that “lives” on your computer. Conduct a system scan to identify such pests. Sometimes, it is not the virus itself that can interfere, but the antivirus software. Therefore, if you did not find any viruses after scanning, try disabling your antivirus while installing the nVidia drivers. Sometimes it helps.

Error 2: Wrong bit depth and system version

Such an error often means that when choosing a driver, you simply made a mistake in the version of your operating system and/or its bitness. If you do not know these parameters, then you need to do the following.

Error 3: Incorrect video card model selected

The error highlighted in the screenshot with a red frame occurs quite often. It means that the driver you are trying to install does not support your video card. If you just made a mistake, then you just need to go to and carefully fill out all the points. Then download the software and install it. But what if you don’t actually know the model of your video adapter? In this case, you need to do the following.

If for some reason you are unable to find out the model of your adapter this way, you can always do this using the device ID code. We discussed how to search for software for a video card using an identifier in a separate lesson.

We have shown you the most common errors that you may encounter during the installation of nVidia software. We hope you will be able to resolve the issue. Please note that each error may be specific to your system. Therefore, if you were unable to correct the situation using the methods described above, write in the comments. We will consider each case separately.