Black screen after nvidia update on win 7 and gtx 480

ruffpl

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Hi. I never thought that I will have a problem like that but this is how it looks:

I was working on my PC (win 7 64bit, nvidia gtx 480) and I got popup screen of Nvidia driver update for my card (dont remember driver number). I could not close it, so I have pressed the next button, it download the driver and I start express installation. After couple of seconds screen went black and I heard typical "bobom" windows sound that the system found new hardware. After couple of minutes the screen was still black. I had restart my computer, windows boot animation run ok and after that I got black screen and only small line on the top was visible( I saw wallpaper and that the mouse was working). I tried to boot to safe mode but it was still the same :pfff:/ 99% of screen was black. I tried to connect monitor to other video outputs but there is no signal.

What can I do? I can not even get system restore because I dont see anything. Is there some way to restore my pc/delete does new drivers by some bootable program or some other way?
 

garryash

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I installed 331.65 driver and all seems to work OK except Google Earth. It opens up OK but the world is totally black with just place names shown. Not much use really. Went back to 327.23 driver and everything is back to normal.