graphics card failing after installing graphics drivers

karanbhoir7

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so my rig collected alot of dust i decided to clean it up. so i unpluged all cables wires and cleaned up everything i removed my gpu and cleaned it, after cleaning up i remounted the gpu and plugged all cables properly and turned on my pc and boom black screen after windows loading logo, and windows started restarting no matter how many times i restart same thing so i decided to format it and install win 7(earlier i was using win 8.1), after installing win 7 successfully i installed graphics drivers and same thing again black screen and restart after windows loading screen i tried many thing in the mobo setting to set primary graphics to pcie instead of onboard graphics none work tried clr_cmos after many tries it worked and windows booted up with graphics driver installed, but after sometime doing some light tasks like surfing same thing happened blackscreen and restart, even changing windows theme and viewing pictures causes blackscreen and then pc restarts :(

later i removed gfx and tried to boot windows with mobo everything works fine so it must be gfx or psu problem :( need help what to do ? :(

ps :everything worked fine before cleaning

My rig
psu : corsair vs650 (2yrs old)
cpu : i7 4790k
mobo : asus maximus vii hero
ram : transcend 4x2 1333mhz
gpu : asus 660ti dc2t 2gb (2yrs old)
 
Solution
ok, then try a different power supply 1st; if that doesn't solve it, time for a new video card; but somehow I think it's your power supply or bad cable coming out of it to one of the components

azca

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make sure that your 660ti is sitting fully in the PCI-e slot. Take it out and re-install it and make sure it's fully in the PCIe slot and you hear a click with the clasp. Then reinstall your power cables to the gpu as well.
 

karanbhoir7

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Did it many times didnt worked only getting black screen on bootup
 

azca

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ok, then try this:

1) remove 660ti
2) boot up with IGP
3) run DDU (it will ask to reboot in safe mode). Reboot, uninstall any nvidia driver it shows and disable (in the program) Windows automatic driver install.
4) reboot on igp again. If all is good, shutdown.
5) reinstall 660ti and if windows boots up ok, install the latest nvidia driver

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html
 

karanbhoir7

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nah not working :( did it many times
 

azca

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ok, then try a different power supply 1st; if that doesn't solve it, time for a new video card; but somehow I think it's your power supply or bad cable coming out of it to one of the components
 
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karanbhoir7

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i will check putting the gfx in my friend's rig although my rig work perfectly without gfx i think gfx is failing
 

karanbhoir7

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i gave my graphics card to asus since it has 1 year warranty left let see how it turns out, i cant check my gfx with other psu i dont have one