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Installation Help!!!

Nanostronghold

Nanostronghold

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Hi guys. I just received my new graphics card today, an nVidia GeForce GTX 560. I put it in my PC and at first my PC wouldn't even boot. I eventually got to the bottom of that, my Hard Drive boot order had changed somehow. I fixed that, got on and installed the drivers from the provided disk (Windows 7 64bit version) It asked to reboot the system to finalise the installation, so I let it.

Now, whenever i turn my computer on it gets to the point where it starts to load windows, I hear my disk drive spinning up and then I get a blue screen which, among other things, says "Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed" and then it reboots.


I'd already spoken to my uncle about it and he said to put the old gfx card back in so I can uninstall all the old drivers from my last card, so I did that and tried again but I get the blue screen still. I'm only on it now in safe mode.

I'm downloading the latest drivers right now, but if anyone has any suggestions or advice i'd hugely appreciate it.

Thanks for your time

Bob
 
im not actually sure. I think I am, because it came as part of an OC overclocked bundle and I had to contact them about updating the bios so I didnt lose the warranty on the overclock.
 
If you have an overclocked system then first thing I would suggest is to reset the overclock and see if that fixes it, companies that sell overclocked bundles don't really have the time to thoroughly test things so it may be a result of the overclock. Make a note of all the old settings just in case you need to revert back.

You'll probably need to set AHCI mode after resetting to prevent another blue screen at boot up. Also check your HDD SATA cable to make sure it's not loose or anything.
 
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Download driversweeper.

Boot into safe mode with networking if you need to. To do that press F8 continually as POST ends and select it as an option.

Download the latest driver from Nvidia's website. Make sure you get a WHQL or whatever they are called and not a beta.

Download Driver Sweeper. You can get it here.

http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

Uninstall all video drivers and applications (such as Physx and so on) and anything from before (ATI/AMD drivers) using your control panel add/remove programs.

When done DO NOT reboot your PC.

Run Driver Sweeper, select remove ATI/AMD and Nvidia drivers.

When it asks you to reboot do so. Now install the Nvidia driver/ Physx etc.
 
B carefull with driversweeper tho, if u have an Nvidia chipset only remove Nvidia Display drivers and not the Nvidia chipset drivers or u will have to download and reinstall thos which is a pain.
 
Oops yeah I meant to say that but forgot to type it.

Remove display drivers only, or you could remove your hard drive drivers or something and then you won't be able to get back in.
 
What is AHCI mode, and how would I set that? At first I got a "BOOTMGR not found" message so i checked all my cables were in properly then.

Driversweeper seems to have been discontinued so i can't get it on that site anymore :S. Would it be obvious if I had an nVidia chipset? Because honestly i cant remember much of the fine detail on what's in my PC.

Thanks very much for your help guys :)
 
I'll give this a go, may have to re-do it all though :S. As I was typing a reply on here windows shifted focus to a reboot option that popped up right as i was hitting space, so it rebooted :S. i'm not sure how successful this install will be.

Thanks for your help though guys :)
 
Okay, it's not worked this time. Instead of showing the blue screen now it's probably still showing it, but it's losing connection with my monitor now after the first "loading windows" screen and the picture doesnt come back until it reboots. Also, the display has gone a bit wacky and everything that should be blue is now green :S i'm gonna try and successfully uninstall all the nVidia stuff without accidentally rebooting this time :S

Edit: Turned my monitor off and on and that sorted the green thing.
 
Hi again. Sorry to post multiple times. I managed to wipe everything off my programs and features list relating to Nvidia, and I used driversweeper and cleared everything from the AMD display, Nvidia Physx and Nvidia Display sections. I restarted and was about to do a clean install of the latest Nvidia driver, but windows got there first with it's hardware updater thing and managed to start installing drivers itself. I thought i had gotten rid of everything. I thought i may as well let it do its thing and reboot when prompted to see if the windows install would help, but no i just got the blue screen of death again. Is there a way to disable the windows auto driver installer, or where are the files it is installing from so i can delete them without losing anything i shouldnt remove?

Thanks guys, any help is appreciated.

NB: I also removed my overclock temporarily and that didnt help at all unfortunately.

Thanks
 
It's a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard, 600w PSU, 6Gb RAM, i7 960 @4GHz. According to the box the power supply i have should be more than enough, it says 450w psu minimum.

It doesn't have onboard graphics, but it boots fine with the default VGA drivers, and it worked fine with my old card, and it seems like they share the same driver pack. My old card was a GeForce 9600GT 512Mb

Thanks guys
 
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