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nVidia Drivers Suddenly Missing?

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rpjkw11

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The latest drivers are listed as 337.88 have up and disappeared, even Driver Cleaner Pro doesn't list them. I tried installing new ones from nVidia, but I get and error during installation. Looking in Win 7 System, it says there are none. This just happened about two hours ago while running Flight Simulator. So, how do I remove drivers that supposedly aren't there and get new ones to install?:confused:

Thanks in advance.

BTW, this concerns my laptop.
 
i7 4700MQ, nVidia Geforce GTX 770M, 8GB G.Skil 1600 RAM. Strange that everything appears to be working fine, but I get notices that a driver search is underway, which seems odd if I'm OK.
 
Let's back up. You're using a driver cleaner pro to assist, is that correct?

If so, run Malwarebytes first. See what it says. If your system is running fine other than getting a third party alert, I would suspect the third party software is wanting to, or already has, install something that isn't necessary, maybe even harmful.
 
What was going on was, for some reason, I started getting messages apparently from Microsoft telling me it had to re-download and install video drivers. So, I logged onto nVidia's site to install drivers (my current was 337.88 out of date) but I kept getting "fail" and the drivers wouldn't update/install. I opened Driver Cleaner Pro with the idea of removing any old drivers, but "nVidia" was all I saw and didn't want to go that far. After trying half a dozen times to install new drivers, I opted a "clean install" and that seemed to work. I was even able to install GeForce 2-point-something plus the newest drivers.

So everything seems to be working properly again.

Thank you for the responses; they undid "brain blockage".
 
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