Computer wont run if i have display drivers INSTALLED... please help

LachlanMcb

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Hey everyone, im running a decent kinda old rig, with a nvidia gtx 660.
I started noticing problems when constant messages would say "display driver stopped working but has recovered" when playing some games. Eventually games would start to crash and I would get black and sometimes blue screens of death, which later led to more frequent crashes and artifacts on the screen, all of which would require a manual reboot. Eventually i couldnt play any games without crashing after 30 seconds. Eventually after crashing from trying to play a game, my computer would get a black screen after loading windows, and the only way i could access it was with safe mode.

Form safe mode the only thing I knew to do was to uninstall the drivers, and with no drivers installed i was able to start windows normally (not in safe mode). From there i tried installing different drivers but no matter what driver I try, old or new, the problem persists. My computer doesnt work when i have drivers installed, but works when I dont have any. Please help
 
Solution
can you try the card on another computer to make certain it is the card & not something else in your computer? is there a power cord connected to the card from the psu?

Noobtothemax

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This is pretty crazy, more and more of these reports are coming up after display drivers get installed. Mine is going through the same thing. For no go into safe mode, go to your drivers and uninstall your graphics card driver and restart your computer, you should be able to use it without going into safe mode. I've been trying to figure this out for 4 days now. Tried so amny things.

New PSU, New GPU, messing with old drivers, etc. Nothing yet. Bios is also up to date.
 

LachlanMcb

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May 1, 2016
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windows 7, not really sure if its relative though because everything points towards the graphics card faulty hardware or software, or atleast thats what ive gathered