I recently shipped my computer down to myself when I moved away for school. Upon arrival, the computer booted into Windows with major screen tearing and blue-screened immediately thereafter. After I opened it up and looked around, it ceased to post, with the VGA LED on. I figured it was a video card problem, so I purchased a quick replacement card to try to see if I could get my system to work. The system is as follows:
i7 950 @ stock speed
6GB of Corsair DDR3-1333 RAM
ASUS Sabertooth X58 MB
(was a Radeon 6870, replaced with)
Geforce GT520
Samsung PX2370 if it is at all relevant to the problem
When I installed the new video card, everything booted up fine, and the system seemed to be running well, except the display was confined to the middle of the screen (ie inch-wide margins on all sides of the display). At this point, I decided to try to install Nvidia drivers, stupidly not thinking to remove the ATI drivers already on the system. After installing the Nvidia drivers, the system would hang shortly after log-in, and completely freeze a few seconds later, forcing me to restart. Also, some of the boots the display would simply cut out. I booted into safe mode and tried a sys-restore to before I installed the Nvidia drivers, and things went back to normal. I uninstalled the ATI drivers, and tried installing the Nvidia drivers again, this time from their website rather than from the disc provided with the video card. Unfortunately, the outcome was the same, and the system continued to hang shortly after logging in to Windows.
Any advice or ideas as to what may be going on would be appreciated.
i7 950 @ stock speed
6GB of Corsair DDR3-1333 RAM
ASUS Sabertooth X58 MB
(was a Radeon 6870, replaced with)
Geforce GT520
Samsung PX2370 if it is at all relevant to the problem
When I installed the new video card, everything booted up fine, and the system seemed to be running well, except the display was confined to the middle of the screen (ie inch-wide margins on all sides of the display). At this point, I decided to try to install Nvidia drivers, stupidly not thinking to remove the ATI drivers already on the system. After installing the Nvidia drivers, the system would hang shortly after log-in, and completely freeze a few seconds later, forcing me to restart. Also, some of the boots the display would simply cut out. I booted into safe mode and tried a sys-restore to before I installed the Nvidia drivers, and things went back to normal. I uninstalled the ATI drivers, and tried installing the Nvidia drivers again, this time from their website rather than from the disc provided with the video card. Unfortunately, the outcome was the same, and the system continued to hang shortly after logging in to Windows.
Any advice or ideas as to what may be going on would be appreciated.
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