GeForce GTX 760 Driver's Failing to Install

Kafuka

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To give a little background here. I built a new PC about a year ago and the HDD I was using pretty much went into the deep end. So I bought a new HDD and installed/bought Windows 10. It was working beautifully up until the point where I tried to put in a different old HDD to grab some important files. After taking out said HDD my screen is set to 800x600. This made me think that my drivers weren't updated so I tried to install the new ones that came out today and the installation is failing.

I've also tried to go to Device Management and my display adapter won't even show up. Also on DxDiag, it says that my main display is "Microsoft Basic Display Driver" and not my GPU. Any help would be vastly appreciated I cannot stand looking at my screen in such a low resolution any longer.

EDIT: I just found the option to change to 1080x1920 (sorry new to win10) but the main problem with the drivers still stand. I've tried DDU wiping and everything but I can't get it to install.
 
Solution
Propably something went wrong with windows installation and messed up your registries,its near impossible to kill your gpu by changing hdd's.A new clean installation of windows maybe solve your issue.But to be sure try to open your case while pc is on and see if your gpu fans are spinning.


I don't have any other PCs to check it on unfortunately. But the GPU shows up in my device manager though only under "Other Devices" and when I try to find the driver for it that way it says that the Microsoft Basic Display Adapter third-party INF does not contain digital signatures... which it does so I don't know why it says that.
 


Let me go back to the beginning. I had 2 hdd's in my old build, a 2tb one and a 500gb one. After the 2tb starting showing signs of issues I removed both hdd's and put in a 1tb I had. After installing windows 10 to the new 1tb hdd I tried putting the 2tb hdd in the secondary slot to see if I could pull files from it. The weird thing with that experience though is even though I disabled boot from the 2tb it still booted from the 2tb. After not wanting the hdd in my build anymore I tried to put the 500gb in but booted it (successfully this time) from the new 1tb with windows 10, and to be completely honest I don't think the drivers were installed from the get go anyway.

Another thing, Windows 10 does see my GPU in PCI bus 2 all there and everything, and I'm not 100% sure if its running of it or not. But either way I still can't install drivers and it still says this http://puu.sh/nrtOo/5c3746b893.png and on my old build whenever I used dxdiag it said that my main device was the Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 was my main device
 
Propably something went wrong with windows installation and messed up your registries,its near impossible to kill your gpu by changing hdd's.A new clean installation of windows maybe solve your issue.But to be sure try to open your case while pc is on and see if your gpu fans are spinning.
 
Solution


Yeah GPU fans are definitely spinning. I just got off of a chat with a microsoft tech specialist and they ran this cmd command but right now its at 20% and it has been for a while so I'll see how it goes, if ultimately that doesn't work I will try a fresh restart if the specialist has nothing more to offer. Thank you for your help so far.