Spec: Quad core Q9300 4Gb corsair DDR2 Gigabyte E-P45-DS3 Mobo Gigabyte 9800 GTX (GV-NX98X512H-B) Card. Vista Ultimate 64 bit SP1 Acer AL1721 monitor The problem is that after i install display drivers, vista does not load. After the progress bar display, the screen goes completely black, and the computer hangs. There is no problem entering in safe mode, and after uninstalling the drivers, all is well (except the lack of display drivers naturally ) I have tried downloading the latest stable drivers from nvidia (175.19), tried the drivers that came with the display card (not sure what ver that is) and even tried drivers from MS site. All with the same result. I have also found this thread: http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t47148.html which is pretty much the same problem i have. Unfortunately, i did not find any solutions for it. Can anyone help me please? Thanks in advance.
I have the same issue - Vista Home Pro Athlon Dual Core 6000+ Geforce 8500GT I was playing Spore when the driver failed and the computer rebooted. After the Windows load bar, black screen. I can boot fine with the driver uninstalled and in Safe Mode. I am about to try the 162.22 Nvidia drivers... Have you had any luck?
You two aren't running non-signed drivers are you? Vista had/has an issue with refusing to load them. There's a fix out there: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-Tweak/Driver-Signature-Enforcement-Overrider.shtml
Nope - drivers right off nvidia.com. I think forgot to mention in the last post that I'm on 32bit Vista. In any case, I spent a good few hours installing and uninstalling drivers, using driver wipe programs, etc. Eventually I must have got the combo right, because now it's working fine. I think the trick was making sure ALL the driver files were deleted, all over the system... Best of luck!
I had the same problem after installing a new driver; I had to go back to a restore point from before I uninstalled the last driver, install the new driver over the top of it, then I could uninstall and run driver sweeper without it killing my Vista install in the process. I can't remember which driver version that was now, I think the uninstall process was broken for it somehow. Very strange.
Unfortunately that doesn't work with SP1 anymore. The only workaround I've found (and use) is ReadyDriver Plus.
