Any idea why I get no video after installing Nvidia's drivers?

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I'm a noob so this probably has a simple answer...

It's a 970 card. After installing the drivers I restart and get a black screen.

Tried the drivers from window's update, the CD, and on Nvidia's page.
 
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Good news. I booted my computer up to try my luck again and I accidently noticed it was installed in my programs. It probably crept up on me with the windows update.

Because this is such a frequent problem (from all the threads I visited throughout the day) I'm trying to think what I did differently.

Continuing to installing windows updates (or failing to install some...) and disabling Integrated graphics in the device manager might have helped.
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Whats the rest of your system specs?

It's recommended to get drivers from Nvidia, it wont make any difference between either versions you tried though with the black screen. Try reinstall using the custom > clean install option Nvidia gives before installing the driver.

What video cable and monitor are you connecting?

Check you're using the graphics card video out and not your motherboard's if it has integrated graphics. Motherboards can disable integrated graphics if a gpu is detected, although not sure how uninstalling a driver would reactivate integrated graphics if that's what its doing.
 
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I don't have a dedicated monitor yet so I'm connecting to a 60Hz television. My HDMI is connected to my card and I get video before I install the drivers. So does this mean my video is coming from my card?


I have an ASUS P8Z77 motherboard and I haven't touched anything in the BIOS settings. I thought it automatically detected the card and disabled onboard graphics?

Additional specs:
Windows 7
i7
16 GB ram
750 Watt PSU
 
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Need to check the back of your case to be sure, i would like to know for sure before moving on to something else.

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You have HDMI with your Motherboard and is located almost at the top of the case. Your card's HDMI would be halfway down there abouts.
 
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I was pretty sure but I checked anyways. The HDMI is going into the 970.

BIOS screen does come up. And the card only had 1 HDMI available.

I'm probably going to have to get back with you later in the day because Windows corrupted when I turned off the machine. I had to roll back ~200 windows updates (new computer)+ Nvidia's driver via system restore...
 
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Sorry that happened to you.

You've connected all the Pcie power cables to the back of the card yea?

What graphics card did you have in before your 970?

Since seeing the bios screen, your gpu is feeding video. How far afterwards until you get no video?

Maybe the system restore might do the trick.

Your Win7 is legit yea?



 
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Good news. I booted my computer up to try my luck again and I accidently noticed it was installed in my programs. It probably crept up on me with the windows update.

Because this is such a frequent problem (from all the threads I visited throughout the day) I'm trying to think what I did differently.

Continuing to installing windows updates (or failing to install some...) and disabling Integrated graphics in the device manager might have helped.
 
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