175.19 driver issues

Hey guys, I run a GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB card on a P5E mobo with Vista Ultimate.

I installed the latest driver on the nvidia site (175) and when playing Shaiya I started getting graphical artifacts on screen and then screen would flash black and sometimes recover sometimes crash me to desktop and I'd see 'display driver stopped responding and has recovered' or it would just freeze up my system. After this happened a couple times I started having artifacts on my desktop and also getting the 'drive stopped responding'....I first tried rolling back my driver which did not help. I also noticed I now had graphical artifacts in my bootup splash screens and the windows load screen (dots and bars forming columns vertically).

Now, I can boot up my system if I have NO graphics driver installed and just use the 'standard VGA adapter' that windows installs. If I install ANY nvidia driver (whether from windows update or from nvidia site) my computer would boot with flashing screen and graphical artifacts, after it did that a couple times it no longer will boot with ANY nvidia driver installed (it get sto point where its loading windows and just sits there forever with black screen). I wiped my system again and did another install and also redid my boot records.

Nothing is helping and the only thing I did was install this 175.19 driver. Can I please get some assistance on this?

I had a vert similar problem with my 8800GT. Thread I posted is here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] ctive-else

I ended up RMAing my video card. Replacement is on the way. What I finally did was put my 8800GT into another computer, and it did the same thing in it. The old video card, 7600GT work fine in the same old computer on the same stress tests(ATI Tool). So by process of elimination, I came to it being a bad video card. Might wanna swap it to another computer if you can. Seems the best way to tell for sure. EVGA told me to do that also. I have a run down of all I did to test it on that thread as well. Hope it helps..........................

I had similar issued with those drivers. I had to get rid of them and get XG drivers. I think it was the 177.63