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Black Screen on Driver Install

Scotteh

Scotteh

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Anyone experienced similar issues in the past?

Basically, a few months ago I built up an old PC for the gf to play some steam games, stuck SteamOS on it. When it booted up it went to black screen I put it down to faulty gfx card so switched out the 6950 for the GTX275 as I didn't care enough to troubleshoot it as she'd be playing low demanding games.

Decided to stick Windows 8 back on it so decided to try the 6950 again (I previously ran W7 on it until Aug last year before building it up for her).

Now it loads up fine, lets me log in and will run fine. When I install the graphics drivers it'll go to a black screen and won't come back until I forcibly reboot it.

I've just ran a windows update with 163 updates and it's gone to a black screen so, so I assume that's windows installing some form of graphics driver for it.

So it seems driverless the card works (limited functionality obviously as with any card without drivers) but when drivers are installed it's gone.

There are no other drivers installed (i've checked with DDU) so it's not some sort of conflict.

I'm leaving it now in the hopes it finishes updates and comes back, but assuming it's gone black due to installing a display driver I'm not very hopeful.
 
Updates didn't seem to do anything so had to manually restart it.

After it restarted the updates reverted.

Booted it up and manually installed a few updates so I could put W8.1 on it. Started 8.1 update and black screen again.

Going to try it again now (just left it before, so not sure how far it got).

If possible I'll update to 8.1 then 10 and see how I get on with 10 but doesn't seem to like this graphics card so far...
 
Latest drivers may not support older graphics cards, can you try an older driver.
I would suggest trying a clean install of W10, skip key request and activate with original W7 key later.
Andi.
 
It's a W8 key, afaik there isn't an upgrade path for W8 to W10 without 8.1, as such I'd assume the key for 8 wouldn't be valid on 10.

It's the drivers for the 6900 series specifically so should be compatible.
 
Yup managed to get into safe mode, it had installed drivers for the 6950.

Can't get back into bloody safe mode now (who's idea was it to remove F8...).

Uninstalled the driver but forgot to disable auto update, so it restarted and auto installed the driver again.

Will keep trying to get into safe mode and uninstall and disable driver installs
 
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