GTX 1080 and Windows 10 pro (64)

[woodburner96]

I have tried everything on a new build to get the 1080 FE to install - Nope.
Gigabyte aurous 7 wifi - all drivers installed - no overclock
2700x Ryzen
Corsair 3200
970 pro
I have done a fresh install both from disk & updated from creator...Driver install fails
I have tried 3 different legacy driver versions...nothing
windows ver is 1809 build 17763.1 - completely up to date

any help would be gratly appreciated, been at this 2 days & this is my CAD work system...cant be down much longer.

 

[Karadjgne]

What's not installing? Gpu is plugged into the slot, powered from the psu. Any copy of nvidia drivers for gtx1080 (windows10 x64). Should install with no issues. Nvidia drivers can be found at nvidia.com, got nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows other than picking the right OS.

 

[woodburner96]

What's not installing? Gpu is plugged into the slot, powered from the psu. Any copy of nvidia drivers for gtx1080 (windows10 x64). Should install with no issues. Nvidia drivers can be found at nvidia.com, got nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows other than picking the right OS.

Apparently i'm not the only one with this issue as a quick google will give a lot of similar issues with window 10 and 10 series cards 1060, 1070 1080- that being said everything is good, I have installed dozens of cards, this one has me stumped. Card is good - (works on other system) everthinng checks out, but will not install from disk or nvidia site.

 

[COLGeek]

Did you install the AMD chipset drivers for the motherboard, before installing the Nvidia drivers?

https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-am4/x470

 

[Karadjgne]

Maybe check the Windows Defender. Since this last update (it was the April I just installed) it seems everything now gets a halt put on it by Defender. Took me 20mins to figure out as I had notifications unchecked, I just happened to be looking at other software that wasn't working on startup and saw the blinking shield.

Many ppl with win10 and 9series cards or newer tend to have issues with legacy bios on older mobo's, a common issue all over Google. As new as your system is it shouldn't have any hardware incompatability at all, even closely related to bios, or compatability with installed drivers, so my assumption is that it's a setting either in Defender or UAC or similar that's preventing this.
Maybe AV. Some other issues are due to ownership, so might try running Driver Deleter Utility (DDU) from guru3d.com (in safe mode) first, to remove any prior nvidia attempts and associated fikes/registry links.