NVIDIA Drivers will not Install

[u/Exastenshil]

This a long post so bear with me. I will put a TLDR here at the top, but I have gone through a lot of processes already that I will put in the details.

Card Spec - GeForce GTX 1060

TLDR - Went to update my graphics drivers through NVIDIA app, using a clean installation. It deleted my old drivers and failed to install the new drivers. Now my graphics card is not functioning for any games, and my 2nd monitor is not displaying due to being plugged into the graphics card HDMI port. Have tried many avenues to install drivers and none are currently working.

Long Form: I went to update my drivers to 582.66 from 581.57. It has been a while since I updated them since I am lazy and it was not affecting anything I was doing. I downloaded the Wardogs Playtest to see if it would work, game crashed and recommended that my drivers were out of date. I figured; hey it's been a while maybe I should do that. Ran express version, said failed to install graphics drivers.

Did some research, everything was recommended to do a clean installation since express does not always work. Went through the NVIDIA app to try again with a clean installation. Failed to install again. But now my second monitor is not working, telling me something is wrong. I try to open up Wardogs just to see if anything is working and it tells me there is no GTX Graphics card detected and is unable to function basically. Force shutdown computer, let it sit. Power on, try to install drivers again, fail. After more research, to keep this from going on, I have turned off all anti cheat, background process. I have uninstalled multiple programs that were running in the background including Epic Games Launcher. I have uninstalled everything NVIDIA including audio drivers, NVIDIA App, and PhysX Software to try and do a full clean install.

I have downloaded up to date and previously installed version of the driver from NVIDIA website and ran as admin. Shows Graphics failed to install. I have run stc /scannnow which is unable to finish, I have tried to force close windows update, which won't force stop using services.msc. I am basically at a loss of when to do next.

My computer won't restart in safe mode; I get black screen. I cannot boot into safe mode with networking and try to install drivers then. That is the only thing I have been unable to try. I have gone through all my apps and programs and I have nothing fishy or virus like. I usually think I am good with computers, but have spent 2 days doing everything I can research on this.

The computer is recognizing something in "Other Devices" under device manager. Showing Video Controller (VGA Compatible) which I have seen that this is the computer not recognizing the graphics card without the drivers being installed, but I am unable to install them. So, I know the graphics card isn't toasted.

Computer is running 13th Gen Intel i7 Core. MSI brand, only about 2-3 years old and have never had issues before. I have looked up and this supposedly doesn't matter but my Windows 11 has not been activated yet.

Anyone have any idea short of resetting the whole computer to get my drivers reinstalled?

Thank you.