New graphics card - no display

morrise001

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I purchased three of these monitors - http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Samsung+-+23.6%22+LED+...id=1218884673269&skuId=8682068

And this graphics card - http://www.bestbuy.com/site/EVGA+-+GeForce+GTX+660...9757&st=evga%20660ti&cp=1&lp=4

I forgot to uninstall the old graphics drivers from a 560ti before installing the new card. I went ahead and uninstalled and installed new drivers but the card is not working properly. On start up, the computer loads like normal until after the splash screen then the screen just goes black. The card is recognized in device manager and I checked all the power cords and everything is plugged in properly. The fan on the card also spins right up when I start the computer.

I can only start the computer in Safe Mode otherwise the screen goes black and I can do nothing. How can I possibly fix this without having to totally reinstall an operating system?

My system specs are:
i5 2500k
MSI P67-GD65
cooler master 650w PSU
4gb gskill ripjaws ddr3
Windows 7

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers while in safe mode and with the 660ti disable and that didn't help at all and now I've done a restore with the 560ti in the PCI slot and same result - a black screen after the Windows splash screen. I know windows has loaded because it makes the noise after the screen goes black so it has to be some some sort of driver issue with the GPU.

One other thing I tried was deleting everything NVIDIA off the computer and I got everything but the NVIDIA corporation folder to delete because there was a display folder within that folder that was in use and couldn't be deleted. Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
 

avjguy2362

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I would start with system restore (hopefully you had it on!) to several days before you made your upgrade, stick with your older card until you get things back in order, and use one monitor only. You could also try the repair mode with your windows disk and or the system recovery disk if you made one.
 

morrise001

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I've tried the restore with the older card in the system with the same results. I wasn't smart enough to make a system recovery disk so I'm just out of luck on that one. I just went through the registry and deleted all the nvidia files from my computer and am gonna try installing new drivers once again. I can boot into safe mode with no issues but unless the graphics card is disabled in device manager all I get is a black screen when I boot Windows normally.
 

avjguy2362

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I have a feeling it is something else. The default Windows driver is automatically enabled when you uninstall the NVidia drivers, so you should get video output anyway. It would not be optimized for games and many features of the card, but it would still work for basic 2D functions on at least one monitor, even two in windows. Although the settings should not have changed, have you looked at you BIOS to see that the card is set properly for the first PCIe lane. Do you have your original Windows disk? If you put it in your DVD drive and go to re-install windows, there are choices to repair system files without actually re-installing windows.