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why wont via let me install its own driver on my home-built tower?

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run sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth if the installer fails on every version. A damaged component store can break driver installers in odd ways.

  1. Zane Arslan
    @zane.arslan12

    hmmmm ok short verison: CLE266 16.01.20.04 (Windows 98SE/ME) wont install.

    Windows Update

    Windows Update
We couldn't complete the updates.
Undoing changes. Don't turn off your computer.

Error code: 0x800f0922

    longer version: my home-built tower came with a manufacturer-customized graphics driver. i wanted the newer one from VIA directly. every installer i try says its incompatible with my Windows. is teh laptop maker locking this down, or is my Windows install broken? i would really prefer not to reinstall Windows just to update one driver lmao if there is a way to check what teh installer is actually comparing, i would love to know it. im about to throw this thing out the window lol

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  2. Theo
    @tquintero_40

    been there man as a last resort u can extract teh package and install teh INF manually: Device Manager > Update driver > Browse my computer > Let me pick > Have Disk, or pnputil /add-driver <path>\*.inf /install. if teh INF doesnt list your hardware ID, tho, dont force it.

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  3. Sara
    @sara.bauer

    same issue here on my office machine.. 😭 glad im not the only one fingers crossed 🤞

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  5. Theo
    @tquintero_40

    oof exact same thing happened to my brand new build last month

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  6. Theo
    @tquintero_40

    Make sure you picked the right architecture and the right OS family. A package meant for a different Windows edition, or a server/workstation branch, will refuse with teh same generic text.

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  7. Sara
    @sara.bauer
    in reply to @tquintero_40

    Some laptops use OEM-customized drivers (common on hybrid graphics). In that case get the driver from the laptop makers support page, or use the genreic VIA package only if it explicitly lists mobile GPUs.

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  8. Kofi
    @kofis548
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    run sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth if the installer fails on every version. A damaged component store can break driver installers in odd ways.

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  9. Theo
    @tquintero_40

    nope

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  10. Theo
    @tquintero_40

    @kofis548 nah thats not it, 98se/me) has nothing to do with it idk maybe im wrong lol

    somewhere an AI is confidently telling someone the wrong fix rn

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  11. Rhea
    @subnetrider

    OEM drivers can lag far behind, if the laptop makers version is ancient, teh vendors generic mobile package is usually fine once you match the right one. just my 2 cents

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  12. Zane Arslan
    @zane.arslan12
    in reply to @kofis548

    @kofis548 dude installed the pedning Windows feature update, then CLE266 16.01.20.04 (Windows 98SE/ME) went on without a single complaint. the error was technically true, just unhelpful.

    thumbsup

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