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gfx drivers messing with windows?

theleg

theleg

theleg

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Recently built a new computer, everything working fine for a week or two and then suddenly, windows won't boot. Starts windows, gets to the loading screen and then i get a graphical glitch and it reboots and gives you the safe mode options.

Booting into safe mode and resetting the gfx driver to the standard vga driver will allow me to boot into windows normally...then when i reinstall nvidia driver, problem comes back.

Its windows 7 and a geforce 670.

any ideas whats going on chaps?
 
Orcvader said:
Full system specs? Tried an older set of drivers?
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haven't tried older drivers yet, will give it a whirl..

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Samsung 256GB SSD 830 NotebookApple Series SATA 6Gbs KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC256NEU)
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit - OEM (GLC-01844)
Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
GeIL Black Dragon 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GD316GB1600C11DC) **OcUK Exclusive**
PC Power & Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 600W '80 Plus Bronze' Modular Power Supply - White
Zalman Z9 Plus Tower Case with Fan Controller - Black
Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler (Socket LGA136611561155775AM3AM2+AM2)
Samsung SH-224BBBEBE 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
 
Specs seems fine, it seems suddenly strange for it to suddenly not want to boot.

Do you have Lucid Virtu installed? Could try uninstalling that?
 
Can you try an older nVidia driver? Or do you have another system you can try the card in?

biuro74 said:
Try BurnTest (MSI Kombustor) and you'd know if graphic card is fine.
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Would Kombustor even work without drivers installed?
 
tried a couple of older drivers, still the same problem :/

i don't have another system to hand. could probably cobble something together.

does it sound like it might be a problem card or something?
 
The graphical glitch does seem like a borked card to me, but check 100% before you go sending anything back.
 
Reinstalled windows...Nothing else...Things are working fine. Throw in the nvidia dvd and install drivers...problem is back :/
 
Not that using dvd drivers should really make it crash. but why not just use the most recent downloaded ones... And it sounds like your card to me anyway, need to try it in another system just to make sure.
 
I've tried 4 different sets of downloaded drivers including the recent beta release of a couple of days ago...and those on the dvd...i just wanted to see if anything would be different with a new windows install..just to be clean :o

extremely frustrating. ill try a couple more times and then try and put another machine together with parts..then i guess ill have to return it if nothing works :/
 
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