Surely even I can't be THIS unlucky!

Cleeecooo · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:18

EVGA_Nick said:
Although possible, it'd be pretty rare for two cards to be defective in the same exact way.
What outputs are you using?
DP
What cables?DP cables that came with my moinitor
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?

Tried using HDMI and i have 2 Samsung S27A750D's. They both work perfectly using onboard gfx

Rroff said:
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 - bit of a stretch tho.

I can log in fine, the rest of that sentence i have no idea about :eek:

Hyburnate said:
Do they work on there own in Safe Mode?

nope

JeffyB · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:51

I had to do a full reinstall when I moved from my 5870 to a 6990, was getting odd corruption in windows. Reinstall solved everything and was probably quicker than debugging the problem.

Cleeecooo · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:52

i'll do a reinstall then

How would I keep all my settings?

Also, I'm presuming that taking a disk image and then reinstalling and putting the image back on will do literally nothing?

KiiYzOo · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:55

did you read what I said?

Cleeecooo · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:56

KiiYzOo said:
did you read what I said?

ofcourse!

But that means I lose all my bookmarks and settins does it not?

khemist · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:24

Export your favs and import them again later.

JeffyB · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:26

You can save you bookmark folder, also a good idea to backup your mygames folder (in my doccuments) for all your saves and to backup your installed steam games to save on re downloading them.

Cleeecooo · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:26

all steam things are on my other SSD

mikeo · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:35

cleeecooo

How many different graphics cards is this now in the last 12 months?
and I thought I was mad (sorry... an enthusiast!)

Not taking the mickey here. But it's at times like this, that a full image backup of your main drive comes in handy (did I hear Acronis TI anyone).

Good luck

PS. Also handy to have Windows target your user/username folders (IE. documents etc.) to a different HD, then no need to worry if you OS boot drive goes FUBAR.

Cleeecooo · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:37

mikeo said:
cleeecooo

How many different graphics cards is this now in the last 12 months?
and I thought I was mad (sorry... an enthusiast!)

Not taking the mickey here. But it's at times like this that a full image backup of your main drive comes in handy (did I hear Acronis TI anyone).

Good luck

8800
5850
6970
480
580
580
570

7th gfx card

I have an image but i's from a few months ago - forgot to keep updating it

Howling · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:37

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

This part confusing anyone else? :O You spent £600 on 2 seller cards instead of just buying another 580? *scratches head*

Cleeecooo · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:37

Howling said:
This part confusing anyone else? :O You spent £600 on 2 seller cards instead of just buying another 580? *scratches head*

needed VRAM

Howling · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:40

Doesn't the 580 run 3gb?

harmony · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:43

I cursed you because you didn't buy my cards!

mikeo · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:43

Cleeecooo said:
8800
5850
6970
480
580
580
570

7th gfx card

I have an image but i's from a few months ago - forgot to keep updating it

Impressive list

Bummer about your backup/s. Automation is the name of the game here

I await with interest to hear the resolution to your current problem

Don't let it get you down

harmony · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:44

I didn't read carefully, but if you use Intel IGP to get into Windows and uninstall all the nvidia and amd drivers, can you then boot into Windows using the GTX570s?

Cleeecooo · 12 Oct 2011 at 22:54

Howling said:
Doesn't the 580 run 3gb?

the ones that do are really really expensive :/

harmony said:
I cursed you because you didn't buy my cards!

lol, they did't have DP

mikeo said:
Impressive list

Bummer about your backup/s. Automation is the name of the game here

I await with interest to hear the resolution to your current problem

Don't let it get you down

haha, i won't!

Pulse · 12 Oct 2011 at 23:09

This may sound stupid and I may of missed if this has already been mentioned. But have you tried the auto setup button of your monitor?

Cleeecooo · 12 Oct 2011 at 23:10

Pulse said:
This may sound stupid and I may of missed if this has already been mentioned. But have you tried the auto setup button of your monitor?

auto setup?

tommybhoy · 12 Oct 2011 at 23:32

^Push/touch the circle in the stand:

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201107/20110707172426770/BN46-00036A-Eng.pdf

If that works, I'll send you a carrot myself!