Windows 7 GPU Problems (Drivers?)

2009-12-06 12:38:53

#1

Racoon_Flyer: Member; +10|6194|Cambridge, UK

So basically I got a new motherboard + i5 + ram, everything works fine apart from my GTX275, which for some reason when I go to log in it gets to the welcome screen and freezes with a few like black spots on the screen, it works fine in safe mode and from there I can uninstall the drivers, and this makes it work fine in windows but of course I have no GPU driver, so I install the driver from my now working windows and restart, same thing. I put my old 8800GTS in and everything works fine, the driver installs fine, I can run games and stuff. But if I put my GTX275 in and reinstall drivers it does the same thing. I have tried everything I know and I can not fix it. Any help would be appreciated.

Current Specs:
Core i5 750
Asus P7P55D
4GB DDR3 PC3-10666
GTX275
320GB + 1TB HDs

Last edited by Racoon_Flyer (2009-12-06 12:40:17)

2009-12-06 12:40:38

#2

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6841|SE London

Which drivers are you using?

Have you tried different ones?

2009-12-06 12:47:29

#3

Catbox: forgiveness; +505|6975

What size power supply do you have?

Love is the answer

2009-12-06 12:53:08

#4

mr.hrundi: Wurstwassereis; +68|6697|Germany

did you install the drivers manually? If you did, try starting the device manager (hope that's the name, I'm using a german version of 7), select your graphics card -> right click -> update software. maybe it finds the right one by itself...

2009-12-06 12:58:08

#5

Racoon_Flyer: Member; +10|6194|Cambridge, UK

@Bertster7 Currently to post this on my 8800gts the latest 195.62 ones, I have tried them and the 190.62 drivers on my GTX275 but neither worked.

@Catbox Currently using a 700W Cooler Master Real Power M700, this powered my old E6600+GTX275+8800GTS as PPU setup fine.

@mr.hrundi And I have tried that.

Last edited by Racoon_Flyer (2009-12-06 12:58:45)

2009-12-06 13:38:12

#6

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6841|SE London

Racoon_Flyer wrote:
@Bertster7 Currently to post this on my 8800gts the latest 195.62 ones, I have tried them and the 190.62 drivers on my GTX275 but neither worked.

Have you tried using the Vista drivers instead?

Worth a try.

2009-12-06 14:01:09

#7

Racoon_Flyer: Member; +10|6194|Cambridge, UK

Bertster7 wrote:
Racoon_Flyer wrote:
@Bertster7 Currently to post this on my 8800gts the latest 195.62 ones, I have tried them and the 190.62 drivers on my GTX275 but neither worked.
Have you tried using the Vista drivers instead?

Worth a try.

The drivers for Windows 7 64bit and Vista 64bit are the same.

2009-12-06 16:23:03

#8

Wallpaper: ☺; +303|6253|The pool

I didnt even need to install drivers for my 8800 with W7 (I did later so I could use the nvidia control panel), dont think you would need to for a 275. Or is it a dual GPU card, I cant remember

My flickr

2009-12-06 16:31:56

#9

ceslayer23: IN YOUR MIRROR; +142|6620|CLOSER THAN I APPEAR

I found that slightly overclocking or underclocking my card (7900gt) fixes this problem. Download evga precision, overclock like 5% and then set the program to run on startup

2009-12-07 09:02:35

#10

Racoon_Flyer: Member; +10|6194|Cambridge, UK

The problem seems to be with anything 3D, I can get it too boot fine into the diagnostic mode on msconfig, but if I try doing anything that puts any real load on the card it just freezes, anyone know what could be causing this?

2009-12-07 09:38:02

#11

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|6995|Salt Lake City

Maybe the video card itself is going bad. Try it in a different computer and see if it still has problems.

2009-12-07 10:00:20

#12

Racoon_Flyer: Member; +10|6194|Cambridge, UK

Yeah I think thats the problem, I have no way to test it currently but I used rivatuner to underclock the card and it runs fine.

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