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Hello, I really need some help here guys, kinda in an an emergency!
Essentially, my GTX 970 just arrived, and I've been saving for months for it and today is finally the day. I installed it, everything was going fine, the light came on, and it fitted very nicely.
When I turn my computer on, it discovered the new graphics card, but since no drivers were installed, it's basically useless. I couldn't play any games, and GPU-Z didn't even recognise it as a GTX 970, is simply called it a 'Standard VGA Adapter'. So I installed the latest NVidia driver '344.16' from the NVidia website. When I rebooted my computer, the trouble started.
My computer is now useless; when I turn it on, it loads the boot logo, and does the little windows animation...then the screen dies. Literally every time I try, the screen dies. I've tried different screens, both HDMI and DVI - nothing works. I've tried setting priority for PCI slots, disabling onboard graphics, everything I can in the bios (yes, it is the latest version).
So I did a system restore to yesterday, and tried again - no change, same problem. I tried again with the slightly older driver, to see if it was a new bug. Same issue. Essentially, when I have no drivers, I can boot into windows but do nothing there to do with my new graphics card, but with the drivers, windows fails to load. I have tried resetting default bios settings, everything.
I really really need help I'm pulling my hair out over this, I think I'm going to die. Please help me!
Essentially, my GTX 970 just arrived, and I've been saving for months for it and today is finally the day. I installed it, everything was going fine, the light came on, and it fitted very nicely.
When I turn my computer on, it discovered the new graphics card, but since no drivers were installed, it's basically useless. I couldn't play any games, and GPU-Z didn't even recognise it as a GTX 970, is simply called it a 'Standard VGA Adapter'. So I installed the latest NVidia driver '344.16' from the NVidia website. When I rebooted my computer, the trouble started.
My computer is now useless; when I turn it on, it loads the boot logo, and does the little windows animation...then the screen dies. Literally every time I try, the screen dies. I've tried different screens, both HDMI and DVI - nothing works. I've tried setting priority for PCI slots, disabling onboard graphics, everything I can in the bios (yes, it is the latest version).
So I did a system restore to yesterday, and tried again - no change, same problem. I tried again with the slightly older driver, to see if it was a new bug. Same issue. Essentially, when I have no drivers, I can boot into windows but do nothing there to do with my new graphics card, but with the drivers, windows fails to load. I have tried resetting default bios settings, everything.
I really really need help I'm pulling my hair out over this, I think I'm going to die. Please help me!
DelroyMonjo
October 14, 2014 9:35:17 AM
Stennersaurus
October 13, 2014 11:42:38 PM
This is the first GPU I have installed, there are no other drivers. And yes, I have found the driver exe file and run it, but when I do it stops half way through and says 'cannot start the proccess', then finishes showing that only half the components actually installed. However, the ones that didn't install aren't mandatory for the card to rj, the actual graphics drivers installed successfully. And I will try that DDU thing you said. Thanks.
frag06
October 13, 2014 4:37:17 PM
Stennersaurus said:
faalin said:
what are your full system specs? More interested in what you power supply is and do you have the power cables hooked up to the video card. have you tried loading the drivers off the cd that came with the card or the 344.11 drivers.
- i7 3770k @4.2Ghz
- Asus GTX 970 Strix
- 8Gb RAM
- P8Z77-V MoBo
- H60 liquid cooler
- 1Tb HDD @7200RPM
- 120Gb SSD
- 800W Corsair PSU
- CiT Midi Gaming Case (Blue LEDS)
- 5 fans
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
I don't currently have an optical drive (embarrassing, I know) so I have to install them from the internet.
My power supply is 800 watts, which is 300 more than requires. I have the Asus Strix model, a there is only 1, 8-pin power cable requires, which is plugged in, shown by the light.
Maybe try DDU. Follow the instructions on the download page.
DelroyMonjo
October 13, 2014 4:25:48 PM
faalin
October 13, 2014 4:04:49 PM
Stennersaurus
October 13, 2014 3:58:05 PM
faalin
October 13, 2014 3:50:43 PM
I haven't had a optical drive in my computer for over 5 years. I have on laying round just in case, pull off the side panel of the computer plug it in do what I need with it and then unplug it.
Try downloading the 344.11 drivers and give those a try. for the 344.11 drivers you have to search for a 700 series card but they do support the 900 series card. or see if Asus has drivers on their webpage for your card.
Try downloading the 344.11 drivers and give those a try. for the 344.11 drivers you have to search for a 700 series card but they do support the 900 series card. or see if Asus has drivers on their webpage for your card.
Stennersaurus
October 13, 2014 3:43:57 PM
faalin said:
what are your full system specs? More interested in what you power supply is and do you have the power cables hooked up to the video card. have you tried loading the drivers off the cd that came with the card or the 344.11 drivers.
- i7 3770k @4.2Ghz
- Asus GTX 970 Strix
- 8Gb RAM
- P8Z77-V MoBo
- H60 liquid cooler
- 1Tb HDD @7200RPM
- 120Gb SSD
- 800W Corsair PSU
- CiT Midi Gaming Case (Blue LEDS)
- 5 fans
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit
I don't currently have an optical drive (embarrassing, I know) so I have to install them from the internet.
My power supply is 800 watts, which is 300 more than requires. I have the Asus Strix model, a there is only 1, 8-pin power cable requires, which is plugged in, shown by the light.
frag06
October 13, 2014 3:33:55 PM
Stennersaurus said:
DelroyMonjo said:
Try deleting your just installed Nvidia drivers and d/l them again, this time using Nvidia's auto detect graphics card and clean install.I've used a clean install both times. And the 344.16 is the newest one, I looked on the nvidia website to check for the newest one, and this is, specifically for the GTX 970 and 980. I've done clean installs each time.
How did you uninstall the drivers?
Can you list your full system specs?
faalin
October 13, 2014 3:32:58 PM
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