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My new graphics card just arrived today, but not sure on what I should first:

Uninstall absolutely everything Nvidia related, then turn off the pc, remove the card, fit the new card and then install the new drivers.

OR

Turn off the pc, remove the card, fit the new card, uninstall everything and then re-install new drivers.

I remember the last time I removed my graphics drivers, my mouse and keyboard would not be recognised as they were USB and no matter what I tried, I couldn't get back into the desktop. I don't want this to happen again!

Cheers
 
If it is an nVidia card you have bought, remove the old card, put the new card in and off you go. If it is AMD, uninstall the old drivers with DDU and remove the old card, plug the new card in install the latest drivers, cross your fingers and toes :)
 
It's Nvidia, yeah.

Current is GTX460, new one is GTX760.

I don't have to remove my current drivers for the new card? Won't there be any conflicts or anything?
 
Nope. It'll be fine, there might be a beta driver/more updated driver for your 760 but it won't cause issues, just check when you're back into Windows.
 
Plug and play brother and if you don't have the latest drivers (337.50) grab them, as they are fantastic :)

It also doesn't hurt to use Display Driver Uninstall now and then. I got caught out with BSODs and DDU sorted that little PIA out :)
 
The driver will need reinstalled to do it properly, even if same model with a different GPU Bios ID it will detect as a new card but yours is a totally different card.

You should not need to clean out driver though unless you get issues.
 
I recently went AMD to Nvidia.
Here's what I did:
Switch on, uninstall drivers using DDU, switch off, swap cards, switch on, install latest drivers.

Worked for me.
 
Think it could be either a problem with gpu drivers (answer is usually clean and (re) install) or possibly motherboard not seeing the card (which would necessitate a Bios update).
Before doing bios update I would check to see if this is a known issue
 
Okay, so when I installed the new driver and it was booting up, I had signal on the monitor but just before it goes onto windows where I put in my password to login, I had no signal on the monitor. ~30 seconds later it came back on and it was working.

I don't know if this is going to be a one off - if it isn't, what could be causing that?
 
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