Gtx 980 freezing on startup

Diehardcj

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Nov 23, 2016
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Hey guys, I'm new to the forums. I've been trying to find a solution via searches and contacting manufacturers. My setup is
CPU- intel I5-4690k
Gpu- MSI GTX 980
Psu-evga 650Gs
Memory- 4x corsair vengeance 8gb
Motherboard-MSI z97-G45
Samsung ssd + 3Tb hdd, corsair liquid CPU cooler.

After about a year of having this, my graphics card randomly went out so I recently got an RMA from MSI. After plugging my new GPU in, I can't get past the windows loading screen (Win 10-64bit), it just freezes. I've tried a fresh install of windows and it works fine up until I download the drivers and all which came from the motherboard disk, then the unit will freeze. I called MSI and they recommended a new PSU, so I tried a Corsair CX750M and it's still having the same issue. Like I said, it works fine up until I download the drivers and all from the boot disk. I've wiped the main drive several times and reinstalled but it hasn't helped me. Please help =(

Oh, I have also tried it in Windows 8 but still no luck there.

Thank you guys!
 

Diehardcj

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Nov 23, 2016
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That's what I was thinking, but the strange thing was that it worked before I installed the drivers. Yea I used the disc that came with the motherboard, it was the only way to get the network adapters needed to get online. I had additional drivers I downloaded from MSI but when I try to run the Nvidia Installer it says that it can't continue because "the graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware."
 

Diehardcj

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Should I still download the intel drivers from the disc and try to avoid anything graphics related? Thanks for the help by the way, and link :p

Edit: I tried that after finally being able to work on it again and still no luck. It downloaded the driver which when it opened it was GeForce Experience, went through a bunch of Nvidia drivers and reset. After resetting it made it to where windows has the loading bubbles around and then the screen went black and my monitor says no signal. Also my keyboard and mouse shut off at that point which is strange.