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Question

windows 8.1 struggle with updating drivers

Dec 6, 2014 3:00PM PST

This is only part of a much bigger issue I will be posting about later, however I will take it step by step.

I recently built a systems that bsod has been plagued by bsod. From all of my previous troubleshooting I have reason to believe driver issues has a part in it.
That being said, lets skip to the issue at hand. I was in the process of updating drivers at the manufacture's website and upon installation I receive an error message stating that "the installation could not continue" that "the driver could not find the proper hardware to continue.

The gpu I have is a Gigabyte nvidia GeForce gtx 750ti

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4948

the driver I was attempting to install is found on the gigabyte website.

Does anyone have any insight into why I am unable to install this driver? Could my intuition be wrong and the bsod not be caused by driver issues, but faulty hardware? I know I am leaving a lot of facts out, but my main issues are with installing this driver, if anyone can help me with this, then hopefully I can move forward and combat my other issues with my newly built pc
Thank you all in advance for taking the time to read this and the help you all provide =]

I know I am leaving out a bunch of info, please ask about anything I may have left out and I will answer promptly.


System

Fresh retail version of windows 8.1 (yet to update) due to bsod during installation

Amd fx6300 6 core cpu

gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 rev4 mobo
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4672#ov

gpu
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4948

pny 8gb ram

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-8gb-pc3-12800-ddr3-desktop-memory/1397327.p?id=1219051117285&skuId=1397327

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