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Surely even I can't be THIS unlucky!

Cleeecooo

Cleeecooo

Cleeecooo

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Hi,

Got my two new EVGA GTX 570 2.5gb's yesterday to replace my GTX 580.

I can't seem to get either card to work! :eek:

They POST perfectly, everything normal. They get past the windows logo screen. But when I get to the logon screen - this is all I see;


I can log on normally, but still, that small bar is all i can see.

I've tried the cards together, each individually etc. Onboard gfx works fine, i'm using it now. My 580 works fine aswell. I've tried driver sweeper in safe mode many times.

What else can I do?

thanks
 
I think its resolution issue aswell i think all you require is a full format. as i think the resolution you had before is stuck for some reason on login way to fix it would be to delete monitor information from your registery but its tricky and can break the drivers from installing. so recommend full format.
 
move all of your stuff on your backup drive, then do a full re-install on the ssd then move your stuff back onto the ssd?
 
If you have a spare hard drive then unplug your drive and install windows on the spare drive, if that all works ok then go ahead and re-install on your drive.

It's a bit time consuming, but if it doesn't fix it then you still have your old install waiting to plug in again with no messing about.
 
If you can boot up fine from the onboard graphics then it probably won't need an OS reinstall to fix (tho that might fix it). Have to admit this is a new one on me.

Is there an option in the BIOS for the onboard GPU with a setting like On/Off/Auto?
 
Although possible, it'd be pretty rare for two cards to be defective in the same exact way.
What outputs are you using? What cables? Tried different outputs and cables and/or adapters? What monitors are you using? Do you have a different model monitor to try to connect to?
 
If you can login it might be possible to install the nvidia drivers from the startup with some kinda quiet/unattented install command line options (setup using onboard then restart) - bit of a stretch tho (old info suggests launching driver setup executable with the -i command line option).
 
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