Monitor Turns Off Before Welcome Screen

[DennisColes]

Motherboard: MSI Z68A-G45
Nvidia GTX 580 (Latest 285.62 Drivers)
Windows 7 64 Bit

I've had this computer about 2 months and everything was working great until today. This problem started out of nowhere. I didn't mess around with drivers etc.

Anyway, when I switch on my computer, the bios screen loads up..followed by the Windows 7 loading splash screen. Then just when the welcome screen should appear, my monitor turns to standby and says that it's not receiving an input signal.

I booted in safe mode and removed the drivers. I restarted my PC and it worked and my desktop appeared. However when i install the drivers again and restart the computer as required by the driver installation..the same problem as above reappears.

My monitor is connected via a HDMI cable to the GTX 580.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Alex74]

Have you tried a different (earlier) set of drivers?

 

[DennisColes]

Have you tried a different (earlier) set of drivers?

No, how do i go about doing that?

 

[DennisColes]

When I go to device manager and right click the GTX 580..there is an option to roll back drivers. I clicked this and it now shows as a VGA Adapter. I restarted and my computer booted up...but obviously in low resolution as no previous drivers were ever installed.

I also just installed 290.53 beta drivers. Restarted and my computer now just hangs at the welcome screen.

I can still boot in safe mode which is how i'm managing to write this.

If my explanations are confusing..please let me know so I can provide more detail if needed.

 

[chaosophy]

Not sure about the hanging issue you have now, all i can suggest is installing the drivers again in safe mode and then reinstalling.

But for your original issue all I can think is that once it gets to the welcome/login screen it is switching to a different monitor output. Can you hook your monitor up to the other outputs once it gets to that stage, DVI etc? Also when it does get to that stage have you just tried entering your p/w anyway to see if it logs on and then brings up the monitor as part of an extended desktop?

 

[Skynet5]

I had this problem on a new build a couple years ago.

Have a look at your monitor driver. Try generic driver, old and new driver etc...

 

[DennisColes]

Not sure about the hanging issue you have now, all i can suggest is installing the drivers again in safe mode and then reinstalling.

But for your original issue all I can think is that once it gets to the welcome/login screen it is switching to a different monitor output. Can you hook your monitor up to the other outputs once it gets to that stage, DVI etc? Also when it does get to that stage have you just tried entering your p/w anyway to see if it logs on and then brings up the monitor as part of an extended desktop?

The computer does log in as I don't have a password. I can tell because of the windows login sounds. I don't have an available DVI cable to test. But thanks for your replies. I've tried rolling back to other drivers but no luck.

 

[Tachyon]

I had the same problem as well a few years back. I don't know the names of all the connections but I was able to get round it by changing from possibly DVI to using the VGA connections.

 

[Devious]

I used to get this a lot. Once I had heard it log on I would switch my dvi cable to the other dvi port and the monitor would come on. I would just keep switching ports every time I booted, it was very odd.

The problem fixed its self, possibly a windows 7 update fixed it??