So, another strange problem when installing Windows 7 on my partner’s laptop. Every time I downloaded the nVidia drivers, either from the official site or from laptopvideo2go.com, unpacking them yielded an error saying either Non 7-zip archive.
or 7-Zip: Data error.
I tried unpacking the archives manually with 7-Zip, and each time a different set of files would fail CRC inside the archive! So, something is probably going wrong with nVidia’s servers, since other things seemed to be downloading fine.
Forum searching yielded that people just kept retrying the download and eventually it worked. I did this, to no avail. Then I shamefully caved in to superstition and tried downloading with IE (where I had previously used Firefox), and it then worked.
I'm not sure whether I just got lucky with the continual re-downloading, or whether using IE had something to do with it.
Very annoying problem. Re-downloading didn't work for me. I guess I will have to wait for the next update and hope that the issue is fixed.
ReplyDeleteYup - this worked for me too...ashamed to admit it. 3 successive failures on firefox and worked like a charm after saving wiht IE
ReplyDeleteUpset and bemused, but indeed found the same as you did: Firefox kept downloading with varying degrees of corruption, IE6 base un-upgraded install managed it. What is going on with NVIDIA's site?
ReplyDeletedownload nx 20 driver for any error clarification
ReplyDeleteI had the same problem today (2010-04-19) trying to download 197.45 (Win7x64 GTX260) via Chrome. Byte-comparisons showed I was getting a different corrupt version each time. I then used IE8, which got it right immediately.
ReplyDeleteExactly the same here.
ReplyDeleteNo idea why firfox would download it differently to IE.
I used to love Firefox, but I'm finding more and more of these problems lately.