This single-item selection installs the driver with its associated accelerators and also the nVidia control panel. MAKE SURE TO UNCHECK ANY THAT MAY BE LOW IN THE DROPDOWN MENU DOWN OFF THE VIEWABLE LIST. uncheck all the rest, which are not needed for our purposes.
exe file as an administrator, choose Custom, checkmark the Clean Install box, and checkmark only the single nVidia driver out of the options offered. Now run the correct current nVidia installer's. **RESTART AT THAT POINT, ONCE AGAIN** Both of those restarts are important to do exactly in the sequence described. There will be a bit of a delay and then the OS will want you to restart again.
You want to be disconnected from the internet so that the OS will not try to automatically choose a set of drivers from Windows Update, rather than the new nVidia drivers you downloaded earlier.
Windows OS will search in its original video card install archive and load old fairly generic drivers. **NOW DISCONNECT YOUR NETWORK CABLE AND RESTART**. You may need to provide admin rights to delete some of the items above. It is best to re-hide those after you are done, generally, unless you and all using that workstation know exactly the complications that leaving those showing can result in. If that folder is hidden then you need to go into the Folders control panel, then the View tab, and down to select show hidden files and folders. Then, into Program Files folder, then Programs Folder (x86), and finally into the normally hidden Program Data folder. Now, go into the root level of C and delete any nVidia folder there. Those extra components usually will already be uninstalled, but if any added uninstalls are possible, do those too. If any added nVidia components are listed in Programs and Features try to uninstall them individually only after you have uninstalled the nVidia control panel first. If the nVidia drivers have been installed in my usual way there will only be the control panel listed. Uninstall via the Programs and Utilities control panel, and do not restart yet. nVidia provides listings of what cards will work with that installer, so you can check if older and newer cards can be mixed together in a 2 card system under the same driver set. If you have two recent Quadro cards, and won't be making clone builds then you can use the higher level drivers. That way those clone builds will contain drivers that can work well with any combination of the above at time of first boot of the clone install.
For my cloning source builds I choose to use the lower level drivers (as if there always will be two of the older type of FX cards in place). There are also driver installers that will be different if you have two recent Quadro cards in place versus if you have one older FX card and one recent Quadro card, or two older FX cards.
There are different driver installers available from the web site for W7 64-bit and W10 64-bit, and even now for W10 64-bit Anniversary Update with the same driver number, but they appear to be different installers. Have the correct current nVidia Quadro driver installer folder on your desktop. Those HP firmware updaters are relatively easy to find via Google.īelow is the method for a very thorough uninstall of older nVidia drivers, and install of new ones. I always apply those firmware updates to any new or used Quadro card I work with, and doing that has solved some blue screen issues which persisted until the firmware update. Many of the HP nVidia Quadro cards have firmware updaters from HP, and those will also work on the non-HP Quadro cards from Dell, PNY, Lenovo, etc. When you navigate to to find the drivers for the Quadro cards (including the FX Quadro cards, the default drivers (ODE, optimum drivers for enterprise) include the special medical grayscale monitor drivers. These tips come from years of working with the high resolution medical monitors we use, and repeated driver installs and updates. The instructions below are optimized for use with nVidia Quadro cards. Validated for compatibility with Dome medical grayscale monitors, controlled by CXtra software. NVidia Quadro drivers W7 or W10 Pro 64-bit best uninstall and install methods