Can't install the NVIDIA drivers for GTX 1070

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Hi, i'm having problems installing the latest Nvidia drivers (368.39-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql) for my newly bought GTX 1070 FE.

I have Windows 10 Home 64 bits.

Up to now, i had 2 Radeon 6950 in CF. I uninstalled all AMD/ATI drivers and folders in my machine, as indicated here. I then unplugged the radeons, plugged in the 1070, and i get POST, i get into Windows, but when i try to install the Nvidia drivers i get from the installer an error message that says "This NVIDIA graphics driver is not compatible with this version of Windows" (i'm translating from Spanish, exact wording in English might differ).

So the Device manager only shows a "Basic Microsoft display adapter", and GPU-Z only recognizes some of the features of the card:

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Would anybody know how to solve this problem? Thanks in advance!
 
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Yeah actually I've heard that there were some issues on the november rollout. All's good in the end, with a pre 1511 you were sitting on a pretty insecure windows. After running windows update to make sure you are upto date, i would try the DDU uninstall + manual driver install again. Just to make sure, run the installer as admin.
I have rebooted into safe mode, and ran DDU to remove any remaining AMD drivers. Then DDU performed a reboot. I rebooted again into safe mode to run DDU again, this time to remove any remaining NVIDIA drivers, and again DDU reboots after completing its tasks. Once in normal Windows again, i tried installing the Nvidia drivers to no avail, same error message than before ("This NVIDIA graphics drivers is not compatible with this version of Windows")...

Any ideas?
 
Thank again, Hlsgsz, it's really appreciated! As for the links you gave me, that's the driver i downloaded... And the link to the English version (US) takes me again to the International one. I'll try to find a repository somewhere else that does not force me into downloading the international version, in case that helps...

I have seen in the geforce forums (https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/945984/gtx-1070-driver-368-39-installation-issue-windows-10-/) that it's not an uncommon problem. Apparently the only fix right now is forcing an update of windows, which means a lot of time, and re-installing your apps. A pain in the a$$... I have tried as suggested in this thread (http://superuser.com/questions/1092694/nvidia-driver-install-fails) to reboot in safe mode and (after running again DDU) manually update the driver in the Device Manager, but i get an error too. I really wouldn't want to have to re-install Windows!! But i don't see an alternative...
 
I know, but Windows was not offering any further updates in Configuration\Updates, it said my system was fully up-to-date. I have had to force-install that last update to version 1511, which more than an update is a re-install. Good news is that now windows sees the card and has installed the driver, as GPU-Z shows:
http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/16/07/04/gnp.png
Bad news is that the Nvidia installer is unable to install any of the components (Physics, the driver itself, Geforce Experience, and a few more). This is what one of the posters in the geforce forums thread I linked above was saying, that you can just get the driver installed. I guess this will be fixed sooner than later by MS or Nvidia, whoever is in fault (MS, i'd say).

Thanks all for your help!
 
Yeah actually I've heard that there were some issues on the november rollout. All's good in the end, with a pre 1511 you were sitting on a pretty insecure windows. After running windows update to make sure you are upto date, i would try the DDU uninstall + manual driver install again. Just to make sure, run the installer as admin.
 
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I had this issue pop up too. I was running Windows 10 build 10240, but in my case I could not get Windows to update/upgrade to 1511 or 1607, so I could not install the new Nvidia drivers and therefor could not use my shiny new GTX 1070.

My workstation has a ton of configuration so I wasn't about to just dump it and re-install, so I spent ~4 days working on solving the Windows upgrade issue. The punch line is; There are 3 partitions on my boot drive and they all showed up correctly in build 10240, but when I booted to the command prompt with 1511 or 1607 Windows media repair mode they showed as RAW and not NTFS (using diskpart) - repeatable by switching back and forth between boot medias. My fix was to backup my boot drive via True Image, wipe the drive (diskpart / clean), install fresh Windows 10 Pro 1607, restore just the C: partition over the top of the fresh 1607 install, then boot and do the upgrade within my old Windows 10 build 10240.

I hope this saves someone some aggravation.

More details in my comment over here: more details
 

I have the same issue with my gtx 1070, my OS is Windows 10 and my version is on 10240. When I'm downloading the updates, the update is on version 1607. Is 1607 fine? Because when I stumbled on this discussion all I read is version 1511. Sorry I'm not an expert in softwares.
 
For furter reference, the solution is to manually upgrade to teh latest Windows build. As sometimes this can't be done through the normal update process, oan has to do it manually: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/
This keeps all files and apps in place.
 


I updated my OS to build 1607, the nvidia driver is now installed. Thanks for the help. 😀
 


NICE YOU GOT IT FIXED ENJOY YOUR GAMING NOW ! :)
 


Hey I'm having the same exact issue and some help on how to get it done would be amazing. I read through your message and even went to the other link but I don't understand partitions and things like that too much so if you can please reply here or email me at alexis_quintana1@aol.com it would be a great help. Thanks
 


"Update now" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/
 
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