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NVIDIA drivers causing issues, please help!

Footyslayer

Footyslayer

Footyslayer

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Hi everyone, I am pretty desperate for some help here!

Yesterday I installed the latest NVIDIA drivers, all installed OK. Last night I shut down my PC, upon booting today I am getting issues...

PC boots as normal, I get to desktop and things start loading in the bottom right (Virus software, spyware software, volumr icon, etc) then after a few seconds I get a black screen with no mouse pointer, I can't see anything or hear anything. Oddly if I press my reboot button on my tower there is a 2-3 second delay until it kicks in where it is normally instant.

I have tried the following...

Uninstalled driver and re-installing
Doing a clean uninstall with DDU
Downloading and re-install the last driver that worked (but no problem persists with current and older driver)

If I boot into safe mode this does not happen, I am normally pretty good at sorting this sort of thing out but any NVIDIA driver installation causes this.

As it stands I am in safe mode, I am about to uninstall the driver via DDU again, I will be able to boot into windows normally but then do not have any drivers installed, the PC works as normal though.

Has to be a driver issue but I can't solve it :(

Any help please?
 
Hi

latest driver 352.86 its not great from reports on guru3d forums roll back to a older driver:)

Have you tried a windows repair ?
 
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This new driver is seriously crapppy , I even had to manually remove the new drivers instead of the clean install which usually causes zero problems ! as it caused stutter , black screens and crashes on nv Control panel , low SLI usage and in the case of the witcher 3 SLI stopped working altogether ! Old driver working again although missing SLI profile for it , will get NVinspector to sort that
 
My plan is to re-install the GTA driver, it worked fine. However even when installing that I get the issue, almost as if the new driver has caused issues for any drivers.

Any advice on getting the old driver to work I would be very happy :D
 
I had a similar issue- installed the new drivers from yesterday and then there was no sound anymore. I started uninstalling the NVidia stuff from the Control Panel but it didn't help. At the end I did a system repair and got my sound back.
 
I had black screen crashes on several games, I just downloaded the gta v ones and clean installed them and everything is fine again.

Seems nvidia want us on 600 and 700 series cards to upgrade, But I have read even 980 and titan x owners have issues.
 
Footyslayer said:
My plan is to re-install the GTA driver, it worked fine. However even when installing that I get the issue, almost as if the new driver has caused issues for any drivers.

Any advice on getting the old driver to work I would be very happy :D
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I downloaded the GTA driver from guru said no compatible hardware found same as from Nvidia direct, went to Windows devices clicked my gtx 780 and choose roll back driver and let it do its thing and all is fine again for me. The latest driver would stop working in games and even desktop so had to revert
 
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