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Quadro Tesla Graphics Driver 306.79 Refuses To Install On My Office PC. But The Page Says It Supports My OS!

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Accepted solution by Malik Kaur — been there man run sfc /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup Image /RestoreHealth if the intsaller fails on every version 🤷 A damaged…
  1. Soren Olsen
    @proxygremlin

    ugh. i downloaded NVIDIA Quadro Tesla Graphics Driver 306.79, the download page clearly lists Windows XP 64-bit, and Im on one of those. i ran teh vendor app on my office PC and got this:

    It says teh driver isnt compatible with this vresion of Windows. Ive rebooted, run it as admin, redownloaded it. Same thing. My current driver is quite old and I need teh new one for a game. Why would teh installer refuse when the OS is listed?? im about to throw this thing out the window lol

    thinking

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  2. Nell D.
    @ndemir

    Some laptops use OEM-customized drivers (common on hybrid graphics). In that case get teh driver from the latpop makers support page, or use the generic NVIDIA pcakage only if it explicitly lists mobile GPUs. lmk how it goes

    thumbsup

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  3. Soren Halvorsen
    @sorenh447

    which version are u on??

    reading release notes like its a horror novel

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  4. Nell D.
    @ndemir
    in reply to @sorenh447

    Check your Windows build with winver... newer driver packages can require a minimum feature update... if youre on an old build, install teh pending feature update first and try again.

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  5. Malik Kaur
    @malik.kaur40
    in reply to @ndemir Accepted solution

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

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  6. Una Garcia
    @unag520

    @sorenh447 nah thats not it, nvidia has nothing to do with it but hey ymmv

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  8. Theo R.
    @theo.reid

    @ndemir works on paper, not in real life

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  9. Soren Olsen
    @proxygremlin
    in reply to @malik.kaur40

    @malik.kaur40 I was using the desktop package on a laptop GPU. grabbed the right one from the NVIDIA support page and it installed fine. feel a bit silly but happy.

    mindblown

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