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PC wont boot with Nvdia drivers

kirito867

kirito867

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Hi

Ive had my PC from overclockers for around 2 and a half years with zero issues and in that time I purchased a Nvidia 780 ti graphics card and this has been running perfectly for the last year.

A couple of days ago I went to play KOTOR on steam, it loaded up the lucas arts logo and then crashed with a TDR error. Ever since then ive not had a functional card/pc. Ive tried reinstalling windows 10 and now im back to windows 7, ive used tools like DDU with no success and I'm only able to boot into safe mode.

I'm not really sure where to go next, it seems like the card might be busted but im hoping someone has an idea.

Any help is appreciated because I am lost!

Spec

Core i5 3.4ghz OC 4.4ghz
Asus motherboard P8Z77-V LX2
Nvidia gtx 780ti
Windows 7 professional
 
Try starting in safe mode, then uninstall the video drivers. Restart pc and let Windows update run. Download and clean install latest drivers.
Check the Nvidia support forums for more details and help.
Andi.

BTW Google stop error 116 and the .sys filename.
 
andicole0 said:
Try starting in safe mode, then uninstall the video drivers. Restart pc and let Windows update run. Download and clean install latest drivers.
Check the Nvidia support forums for more details and help.
Andi.

BTW Google stop error 116 and the .sys filename.
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Yeah I've done this, I think the first reply is probably right, time to get it fixed/replaced. Really odd how it can just stop working like this after trying to run a game from 2003!
 
If you can see Windows boot screen before it black screens just as it's about to hit desktop, reboot into safe mode>device manager>disable Intel gfx>reboot.
 
tommybhoy said:
If you can see Windows boot screen before it black screens just as it's about to hit desktop, reboot into safe mode>device manager>disable Intel gfx>reboot.
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There are no intel drivers installed from what I can see. I have only just reinstalled windows 7 so it is pretty fresh.
 
andicole0 said:
Electronic devices do go pop occasionally with age.
Andi.
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The monitor is plugged directly through HDMI into the card and I'm still getting enough output to run on the standard VGA grphics adapter driver, is that normal? I assumed that if the card was dead, then I wouldnt get any output.
 
deuse said:
Get the free version of "Who Crashed me" that'll tell you what's going on.
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This is the error. I did have a look at this before and saw that it could be related to lots of things. I had hoped that it was just a windows 10 error.

On Fri 01/01/2016 12:19:08 GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\WINDOWS\memory.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: Unknown (0x00000000)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA8009D824E0, 0xFFFFF8800321668C, 0x0, 0x2)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error.
Google query: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
 
kirito867 said:
The monitor is plugged directly through HDMI into the card and I'm still getting enough output to run on the standard VGA grphics adapter driver, is that normal? I assumed that if the card was dead, then I wouldnt get any output.
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If the hdmi port electronics have blown then yes.
Andi.
 
kirito867 said:
There are no intel drivers installed from what I can see. I have only just reinstalled windows 7 so it is pretty fresh.
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It doesn't matter if it has drivers or not, if it pops up on device manager disable it:

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MS can automatically install legacy driver and can default output through Intel Gfx.

If I don't disable that MS Basic Display Adapter(Intel gfx), I get black screen syndrome even on a brand new OS installation.
 
tommybhoy said:
It doesn't matter if it has drivers or not, if it pops up on device manager disable it:

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MS can automatically install legacy driver and can default output through Intel Gfx.

If I don't disable that MS Basic Display Adapter(Intel gfx), I get black screen syndrome even on a brand new OS installation.
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No luck with this either. The only other thing I can think of would be that the clock speeds need adjusting but I wouldn't know where to start with that. I cant install any monitoring tools or anything because they need the drivers to run properly. Is it possible to adjust GPU settings from the BIOS?
 
tommybhoy said:
It doesn't matter if it has drivers or not, if it pops up on device manager disable it:

5OAl05h.png


MS can automatically install legacy driver and can default output through Intel Gfx.

If I don't disable that MS Basic Display Adapter(Intel gfx), I get black screen syndrome even on a brand new OS installation.
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Can you not just disable the igpu in bios? That's all I've ever done and don't seem to have that in device manager...
 
pgi947 said:
Can you not just disable the igpu in bios? That's all I've ever done and don't seem to have that in device manager...
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It's always disabled in bios, took me a while to identify it too, was quite frustrating as it would do it on W8/.1, W10 but W7 would be fine with AMD gpu's, maybe a Z77 Sabertooth thing idk but always point it out as a possible fix every time I see a boot problem.
 
Ah, I'll keep an eye out for it, as you say may be purely related to the board or chipset, not seen it on Z87 or Z97 :)
 
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