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September 21, 2014 9:01:18 AM

Hello,

I just bought a new grapics card yesterday and everything worked fine but today I saw a prompt to update the nvidia software and after i did, the video card wasn't recognised anymore. When I try to install the driver, it says: "Invalid data". Also, my wfi card and audio are not working.

I would really appreciate your help, thanks in advance.

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September 21, 2014 10:04:37 AM

Yo, from what you've told and I know it seems the new drivers fiddled with your system and made all the cards connected to pci slots inactive (or undetectable, or whatever). One solution to this is to simply use Windows recovery option. Open start menu, type in recovery, choose the option that pops out, continue with the process and select point in time just before you installed/updated your nVidia drivers. That should and will solve the problem with the cards not working, however the issue still remains how to update the driver and not wreak havoc in the process. Maybe someone else can help you with that part, I've never had nVidia cards and am not familiar with how their drivers work. Hope that helps.
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September 21, 2014 10:10:28 AM

Zero Oblivion said:
Yo, from what you've told and I know it seems the new drivers fiddled with your system and made all the cards connected to pci slots inactive (or undetectable, or whatever). One solution to this is to simply use Windows recovery option. Open start menu, type in recovery, choose the option that pops out, continue with the process and select point in time just before you installed/updated your nVidia drivers. That should and will solve the problem with the cards not working, however the issue still remains how to update the driver and not wreak havoc in the process. Maybe someone else can help you with that part, I've never had nVidia cards and am not familiar with how their drivers work. Hope that helps.


Thank you very much, i'm starting the recovery process right now. Maybe the problem is that I upgraded my Motherboard, processor and graphics card but kept the HDD?
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September 21, 2014 10:22:38 AM

Well, that information does change things quite a bit lol. The fact that you changed mobo and cpu as well should not normally affect things, as windows (which is the main content of your hdd) does allow you to change the hardware (I've done it myself), however ideally you will be looking to have a clean reinstall of the OS. The answer is simple. you changed key hardware which interact with the OS, meaning any preferences, settings and drivers (i.e. bios utility files etc) that the OS retained from before will become invalid. It some cases (like mine, luckily) it will allow the OS to work with the new hardware flawlessly (so far so good), however it does increase the risk of things going wrong simply because the OS was installed, and therefore directed to work best with, my old hardware. If that makes sense. So yeah, in this case many things could be going wrong; it might still be the simple case of your updated video drivers causing the problems with your audio and wifi card, however, much more likely, new drivers caused some discrepancies within the system that's already unstable and thus triggered some other problems. I'm talking vaguely because by no means am an expert, just sharing my basic knowledge and understanding about PCs. Found this thread that might be somewhat helpful, http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/46024-63-changing-m... , hopefully it will shed some more light on the topic.
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September 21, 2014 10:26:50 AM

Zero Oblivion said:
Well, that information does change things quite a bit lol. The fact that you changed mobo and cpu as well should not normally affect things, as windows (which is the main content of your hdd) does allow you to change the hardware (I've done it myself), however ideally you will be looking to have a clean reinstall of the OS. The answer is simple. you changed key hardware which interact with the OS, meaning any preferences, settings and drivers (i.e. bios utility files etc) that the OS retained from before will become invalid. It some cases (like mine, luckily) it will allow the OS to work with the new hardware flawlessly (so far so good), however it does increase the risk of things going wrong simply because the OS was installed, and therefore directed to work best with, my old hardware. If that makes sense. So yeah, in this case many things could be going wrong; it might still be the simple case of your updated video drivers causing the problems with your audio and wifi card, however, much more likely, new drivers caused some discrepancies within the system that's already unstable and thus triggered some other problems. I'm talking vaguely because by no means am an expert, just sharing my basic knowledge and understanding about PCs. Found this thread that might be somewhat helpful, http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/46024-63-changing-m... , hopefully it will shed some more light on the topic.


OK thanks a lot! I'm doing a fresh install of Windows in a new HDD then.
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September 21, 2014 10:30:41 AM

Awesome, hope things go well. Let me know when you finish installing your OS + drivers if things are back to normal.
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