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Today I just noticed that a certain update (apparently a driver update from nVidia) that has repeatedly failed to install. I tried manually again to install it today, and it just failed again and gave me the error code: 80070103. I'm not quite sure what to do about it (I know about computers to a certain degree though). The first time it failed in update history was 7/2/2010.
If anybody could help me with this problem it would be greatly appreciated!
RE-EDIT: I forgot to "show processes from all users", even though I'm the only user on this computer. Two programs- System Idle Process, and System, are taking up ~48 CPU each. I'm still at 50+% CPU usage. Can you explain what these do? Disregard that last edit.
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jrl,
See: Windows Update error 80070103 Applies to all editions of Windows Vista.http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Windows-Update-error-80070103
Also see the suggestions from the Knowledge Base article below.
You receive error 0x80070103 when you use the Windows Update or Microsoft Update Web sites to install updates http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952032
I have had the same problem for some time now on my Windows 7 64 bit system. I finally went to NVIDIA and downloaded the driver installation package and it installed correctly. Go here: http://www.geforce.com/Drivers.
Thanks for the information, it makes me think that I may need to cancel this update, as I manually installed the latest driver update a few months ago.
Thank you.
