Nvidia control panel not working loop

Thedayapider

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Oct 14, 2016
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So I got this new beast of a gaming pc... not the best but still pretty high end. Problem is whenever I turn it on there's a black bard covering a bit on the bottom... so I discovered I need to go to my nvidia control panel in order to fix the vertical alignment... sure I try to do that "you are not currently using a display attached to an nvidia gpu" oh what's this I ask... I look it up, oh I need to get the latest driver for my 1080 gtx and upgrade... sure let me do that... try to download it, wouldn't work... look it up... oh I have to uninstall then reinstall? Sure... uninstalled can't reinstall, look it up I need to run DDU in safe mode, restart windows 10 in safe mode run ddu clear everything, restart normally and install latest driver, works like a charm and graphics change instantly and everything gets smaller and stuff... but the nvidia control panel is not even opening or giving any error messages or responding at all... restart the pc aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we're back at step 1 with the old graphics, the black bar (still not gone) and "you are not currently using a display attached to an nvidia gpu"... went through this cycle 4 times now and am letting a computer engineer work on it through team viewer and he's doing practically the same thing and now we're both stunned as to what to do (also yes every time I uninstalled the drivers I go to device manager and display adapters and make sure I uninstalled it from there too before I use DDU)... I would really appreciate any help I can get with this considering I'm an absolute noob and can only do my best by following instructions...
 
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Anyway, a friend of mine skyped me earlier and was like "you didn't plug the HDMI into the motherboard rather than the graphics card did you...?"
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oops.

Plugged the HDMI into the graphics card and it works perfectly fine now (though i'm disappointed I can't use gsync on my nvidia driver cause my monitor only works for free sync with AMD).
Thanks for the reply though popatim.

Thedayapider

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Oct 14, 2016
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Anyway, a friend of mine skyped me earlier and was like "you didn't plug the HDMI into the motherboard rather than the graphics card did you...?"
...
oops.

Plugged the HDMI into the graphics card and it works perfectly fine now (though i'm disappointed I can't use gsync on my nvidia driver cause my monitor only works for free sync with AMD).
Thanks for the reply though popatim.
 
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