New Graphics card causes screen to freeze

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Hi,

My CPU is an Intel Celeron 430 / 1.85GHz. I have Windows 7 - 32 bit. Ram is 3GB - Dual DDR2 - 800. My Motherboard is an ECS Elitegroup FSB 1333 / G3IT-M7

I recently installed a PCI express Nvidia Gforce 210 Graphics card (DDR3) on my PC. I also installed its driver which I got from the Nvidia website.

Ever since the instillation my screen keeps freezing, no matter if I work on MS Word or run my antivirus. When the screen freezes the only way to shut the PC down is by force.

I don’t really need the graphics card since I don’t do gaming or watch many movies, but a friend insisted that we put it in. So I went to Programs and Features and tried to uninstall the drivers, but it told me that I cannot uninstall because “other installations” need to finish.

When I press shutdown, it tells me there are five updates waiting to be installed and that I must not turn off my PC. So I leave it on. It’s been 14 hours and it is still installing Update 1 of 5.

Yesterday I installed 12 Windows Updates and they all updated and installed. I did not install any new updates, so I don’t know where they are coming from.

I don’t want the graphics card and its drivers, if it’s gonna cause problems I just do very basic work on the PC. How do uninstall all of it?

Thank you in advance for your help.
 
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Sometimes installations just get gummed up. If you have a slower CPU, which you do, then it's important that you take steps to make sure the minimum amount of processes are running when you do your install. You don't want things like anti-virus programs constantly running in the background. With a slower computer, the more things you have running, the more chances an installation gets hung up on something.

If 'programs and features' won't let you uninstall it, you can try running the driver installation again. See if it overwrites the previous installation. I looked and the driver is the 'version 342.01' dated Dec 14 2016 driver, right?
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Sometimes installations just get gummed up. If you have a slower CPU, which you do, then it's important that you take steps to make sure the minimum amount of processes are running when you do your install. You don't want things like anti-virus programs constantly running in the background. With a slower computer, the more things you have running, the more chances an installation gets hung up on something.

If 'programs and features' won't let you uninstall it, you can try running the driver installation again. See if it overwrites the previous installation. I looked and the driver is the 'version 342.01' dated Dec 14 2016 driver, right?
 
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Sometimes installations just get gummed up. If you have a slower CPU, which you do, then it's important that you take steps to make sure the minimum amount of processes are running when you do your install. You don't want things like anti-virus programs constantly running in the background. With a slower computer, the more things you have running, the more chances an installation gets hung up on something.

If 'programs and features' won't let you uninstall it, you can try running the driver installation again. See if it overwrites the previous installation. I looked and the driver is the 'version 342.01' dated Dec 14 2016 driver, right?
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Yes, that is correct. Thank you for the advice.
 
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I uninstalled the Nvidia driver, removed the graphics card, I even downloaded DDU which removes all Nvidia instillation, and I'm now using the PC's VGA Graphics card, but it still freezes after ten minutes of running. I can't restore point because it only takes me back on day to restore :( DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO....
 
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