Driver install blew my system?

Discussion in 'Videocards - NVIDIA GeForce Drivers Section' started by Inspector999, Dec 30, 2011.

  1. slckb0y

    slckb0y Banned

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  2. buddybd

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    Damn so many horror stories and I still hav absolutely no issues. I went from a 570 Classified to a 580 SLi yesterday (reinstalled driver of course), and still everything's fine.

    I don't even use Driver Sweeper and I don't install the 3D drivers either.
     
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    Yay another blame on Nvidia for anything that happens to PC.
     
  4. Agent-A01

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    read thread before trolling. OPs problem was mobo.
     

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    Yes your right the was a driver i think it was the 175.xx i think,i do remember the driver being withdrawn by nvidia,it worked for some and didnt work for others,it worked ok for me on my on my 280gtx in sli,if Hunter was still around he would be able to tell you the exact driver...he was pretty good with drivers.
     
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    speak for yourself. OPs real problem was found, meanwhile, even uninstalling my drivers didnt help, driver sweeper didnt help, i had to manually wipe every single 290.53 file to get my random BSODs and 3d lockups to stop.
     
  7. signex

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    I think something similar happened to me too, but PC is fine.
    Just black screen and nothing happened, restarted and the system was fine again.

    I booted up WoW in windowed mode and screen went black again.

    So restarted PC again and set the 295 back to clock speeds and now i didn't see a black screen anymore.

    But when i went to bed, i heard the PC restart twice o_O

    Well i can't say it's the drivers to blame though, i just got a new graphics card and power supply.
     
  8. sertopico

    sertopico Maha Guru

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    I don't know if it's drivers' fault, but since I've installed them my system became quite unstable: black screens, colored screen at logon window, flashing pixels, BSODs, but the worst thing is that when I turn the PC power on (directly from PSU or from the power strip), I have a blackout in the whole apartment. I'm starting to think that these drivers screwed up seriously my Maximus Formula causing these huge overcharges... I even changed PSU but after a week the electricity was gone again... Some minutes ago another blackout. It wasn't happening before...
     
  9. seercirra

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    theyre beta drivers for a reason..

    really they should let nvidia know this is happening so it doesnt happen to more people
     
  10. Mineria

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    It wasn't the driver :D


    Reminds me, is it normal to have a Hello Kitty image on the BIOS startup screen after installing 300.11?
     

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    Perfectly normal
     
  12. buddybd

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    Those drivers installed Paranormal Activity in your house? o_O

    Seriously though, I doubt drivers can cause those lol. Did you try changing your motherboard, power strip/socket?
     
  13. sertopico

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    LOL... Was thinking about that... :D

    Anyway, I've changed the power strip and the day after same problem, even tried to plug the PC to others light sockets but same issue... Since some of you said that these drivers may stress the northbridge too much I thought they damaged some component of my mobo, which was working very well since now. Didn't try to change mobo though, it's quite expensive and with sandy bridge in the air the best thing would be a total rebuilt of my system... :D
     
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    There was one driver (196.75) that did cause a serious problem for many users.
    ATI fanboys always bring it up when discussing drivers.
     
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    So what did you do?


    I just got BF3 and now my ram isnt stable anymore with 290.53 -_-

    I was greeted with high pitch sound freeze after a while, again.. I raised mch further from 0.300v to 0.325v and tRFC form 92 to 96 but still it keeps happening, i had to back down my oc to 445mhz fsb (ram 1068mhz, mch 0.275v and kinda high timings tRFC 84) and so far its ok.. I didn't have such problems with 285.xx

    edit: yep now that i lowered my OC its fine.. heh, i guess its older LGA775 that can suffer the most, esp. when Oc'ed.

    But to have such a difference 290.36 vs 290.53 is a bit worrying. I mean i had 1000% stable OC with 290.36 and now with 290.53 its not even with much higher voltage and relaxed timings.. Nice optimization hacks, not :p
     
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    ^ First I'm going to replace my GTX470 which is causing various issues and maybe an abnormal current absorption, then I'll call an electrician who will check my house for anomalies and then the Ghostbusters... Hope they won't cross the streams. LOL :D

    Anyway my system OC is stable so far, so I'm not experiencing your kind of troubles, but that's really a pain in the a.. I guess...
     
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    May be entirely coincidental but since installing those beta drivers weird stuff has been happening to my computer also.

    BF3 was randomly freezing, which required ctrl, alt + del to get me back to the desktop where it says BF3 is not responding. Then I've been having a weird problem where my graphics card doesn't display anything when I turn my computer on in the morning, and requires me to turn the monitor on/off a couple of times to get a picture.

    Obviously this could be unrelated, but it definitely ties in time wise with when I 1st started using those beta drivers. I since uninstalled, used driver sweeper in safe mode and reinstalled the latest WHQL. Hopefully this solves at least some crashes... :3eyes:
     
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    my gpu also f......... i was playing bf3 sudnly bsod and my gpu puff only the fan went to maximum but mine actualy fried my luck the gpu was stil under warranty so rma but was working with this crapy drivers it might be a coincidence maybe not i thinck i wil buy a ati or some becouse or nvidia change the Guy that make these crapy beta drivers or i thinck its best for me to change brands becouse Dam i had a 8800gt some years back and shes stil intact but i didnt instal this drivers on her it might BLOW nvidia fix this crapy branch
     
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    What makes you so sure of that it was the driver?
     
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    I have been playing BF3 a lot recently, and so far no problems at all :S RAM is at stock clocks and timings (manually up'd voltage a little) but my processor is overclocked.
     

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