driver-crashes-startup

[Tom931]

Hello, i just bought myself a gigabyte gtx 460 1gb. When i install the drivers provided my pc goes to BSOD right before login, the driver version is 258.58. A rollback would be useless now because the gtx 460 wont work on any older versions of nvidia drivers. would i have to reformat and reinstall my OS (win 7 ultimate 32-bit). I'm sure this is not a hardware problem. thanks.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Have you tried newer drivers?

 

[Tom931]

i've tried 258.58, 258.96 and even the 260 BETA ones and they all crash on startup. I just bought this card today and without them it wont work.

 

[Mousemonkey]

So what card did you have before? What are the rest of your specs?

 

[Tom931]

alright, im running a dell xps 420- Q660 quad core with 4 gig of RAM and thermaltake 600W PSU, everything is factory clock. I used to have a nvidia 9800gt which when i tried to upgrade the drivers it would crash the same way now that i remember. I could never upgrade my old gfx cards drivers for the same reason and now i have to due to the new card.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Try pulling 2GB of RAM out, you don't need 4GB with a 32bit OS anyway.

 

[Tom931]

i've read that old drivers can intefere with the new drivers so ill try and clean them out and reinstall newest ones. If that fails, ill try your suggestion.

 

[Tom931]

yeah it still doesnt work. would removing the RAM help?

 

[Mousemonkey]

A dodgy stick can cause issues as can a dodgy Windows install.

 

[Tom931]

replacing RAM and removing it didnt work :/
man this sucks, i know my system can handle the card and the drivers but i just dont know what stopping it.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Have you tried contacting Dell to ask them why you cannot update drivers on the 9800GT or this new 460?

 

[Tom931]

i will now, ill post back what they say

 

[Tom931]

Sorry for the extreme late reply, but everything was fixed with a re installation of windows 7. Thanks for the help.

 

[Mousemonkey]

I'm glad you finally got it sorted.