Nvidia Geforce 9800GT

[jamesbrown]

For a while now i have been having problems with this. When i load the pc without the graphics card driver, it works fine (but looks rubbish) When i load the driver from cd and then restart, windows doesn't load. I went into safe mode and rolled back the driver. This removed it. I tried again, but this time i asked windows to search for a driver, it found one and installed it. When i switch on, windows loads and i get the welcome screen. I type in my passwork, and my desktop loads, but then completly freezes after less than a second. I have been having this problem for a long time now. Is it because the graphics card just doesn't work? Do none of the drivers i install work? Is there a bug, is the thing just broken. It is very new, this is a home built pc and has had next to no use because this problem has been preventing me from doing anything on it.

 

Thanks,

[Dalo Harkin]

Go into control panel and remove the display adapter -

You mentioned using a disk - ALWAYS get drivers for a GPU from the Nvidia site - there is a tool there where you put in your OS and the family of the GPU - 9 in your case and then download the driver -

Restart your machine after removing the old one in add/remove.

When it restarts - ignore all the windows update stuff and install the downloaded one you got from the Nvidia site

[jamesbrown]

thanks

 

thanks, will give that a try and will post here again once completed with results.

[jamesbrown]

no luck..

 

I can't believe it. After all this, after waiting an hour for the latest driver to download off the internet, and then installing it, i get all the problems i've been having over the last couple of months again.

 

The welcome screen just won't load. Is there anything i can do now before simply sending the *******ing thing back to the factory?

 

It was really expensive.

[jamesbrown]

graphics driver

 

I've been having the same problem for months now but haven't had the time to deal with it until now.

 

I've built a new pc, and with it i installed a nVidia GeForce 9800GT.

 

Everything is fine without the graphics drivers installed, but whenever i do (even the latest version from the nVidia website) i get a completly blank screen on startup, just after the windows loading menu.

 

Already i've gone into safe mode hundreds of time and unstalled the driver and reinstalled it. i've tryed every tackt but every time when i think i've cracked it, i just get a blank screen instead of the friendly windows vista orb.

 

What should i do? Is there anything i can do software based before i send it back??

 

thanks,

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Can we keep all the card issues in the same thread James please mate. :)

[jamesbrown]

sorry

 

sorry, i just wasn't sure whether this was a hardware issue or a software issue. I really need some help pleeaassseee someone. I'm not sure how much longer i can bare this.

[RandyL]

Hi james;

Is this the driver you downloaded?

181.22_geforce_winvista_32bit_english_whql.exe

[jamesbrown]

..

 

I'm not sure. After feeding in the information about my system into the Nvidia website, it came up with this:

 

GeForce Driver Release 181 WHQLVersion:181.22Release Date:January 22, 2009Operating System:Windows Vista 64-bitLanguage:U.S. EnglishFile Size:95.6 MB

 

This is a WHQL-certified driver for GeForce 6, 7, 8, 9, and 200-series desktop GPUs.

 

This is the one i downloaded. I'm getting a replacement free today, will post here once installed with results.

[jamesbrown]

sorted

 

Hi guys...and gals,

 

Everything is sorted in this area (though there are problems else where)

It was a problem with the graphics card, it was just faulty and wouldn't work with the drivers installed.

 

Got a replacement for free, and it works fine with the drivers. Thanks for everyone's help.

 

jb