Updating Nvidia Driver - No Signal to Monitor

gerg04

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Win 7 64-bit
MSI 660TI PE
Asrock Z75
Built September 2012

To preface: Everything about my PC/graphics card/monitor worked fine until I manually deleted the driver, I'm fairly certain there's no hardware failure.

After getting errors when starting BF4 I decided it was time to update my GPU driver. I proceeded to download the latest beta drivers 334.67. I then goto the control panel and delete the outdated driver and reboot. To which I have no display, showing "no signal" to both the HDMI inputs on the gfx card and the on board card, no display. I then try a VGA connection to the on board input, still no display. I then remove the video card and am able to get a display via VGA. Boot into safe mode and run driver sweeper to remove the old driver.

Boot back into windows normally to install the 334.67 beta driver. I get an error " The Graphics Driver Could Not Find Compatible Hardware". The problem is as soon as I put the card back into the mobo, I am unable to get a signal to any motor, HDMI or VGA. Even after setting my primary graphics boot to "on board" in bios.

And this is where im pretty much stuck. Since I can't get a display with the card installed, I cant get any driver to install. Every search I see is pointing to new builds and fresh install of windows, not simply deleting and old driver then updating. Last time I did this a few months ago, I didn't have this problem.

Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
 
When you install a PCI/PCIe graphics card, the on-board graphics processor chip is automatically disabled to avoid a resource conflict between two similar devices. So that answers your problem with not being able to use the on-board chip when you install the PCI card. That's normal behaviour on any PC.

Now, about the driver problem. You should not be using a beta driver anyway on your main computer that you probably need every day. A beta driver is unfinished and unstable, intended for testing, bug-reporting and other user-feedback on a spare computer you don't rely on.

Download a finished, stable version and try installing that.
 

gerg04

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While you make a logical point, the fact that its the beta driver is not the issue at hand. I have had no issues using any previous beta drivers from Nvidia's website in the past. And know people 1st hand and on the forums using the same driver with no problems. For the sake of wanting to resolve this I will try the latest stable release anyway.

However my problem is lying before the driver installation. If I can't get an output to my monitor with the GPU installed on the motherboard, and can't install a driver unless the GPU is installed...I'm pretty well stuck.