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Need help, autoinstalling bad driver

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I've been trying to mess around for 2 hours now, I uninstalled the driver in safe mode by Hardware Devices menu and driver sweeper. each time I do the PC boots fine in non-safe mode. But once I install any driver (I tried a few) it just does the same thing again. I'm completely stuck and I have no idea what to do at this point. Please help

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Hi guys, I have a problem.

to make a long story short, I installed NVidias new driver and it does NOT like my system.

I went to safe mode (which worked 100%) uninstalled the driver, re-booted up 100% fine.

but when it booted up it installed the latest NVidia driver again which is the problem, it wanted to restart so I let it and the problem came back.

what can I do? My PC is completely unusable.

it gets to the windows password login screen, I enter my pw, then just gives me a full screen of a random color and I have to force power it down w/ the button.
 
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What are you PC specs? OS?

Did you install any new hardware or software right before this problem happened?
 
There's a group policy setting that prevents this
 
socK said:
There's a group policy setting that prevents this
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I don't think its the auto-installing driver that is the problem anymore, I think its just any NVidia driver that is not the default windows driver, or a generic driver that is screwing it up (see my edit)
cybereality said:
What are you PC specs? OS?
Did you install any new hardware or software right before this problem happened?
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windows 7 64bit, 8gb ddr3 1600mhz ram, GALAXY gtx 780, i7 2600k.

I installed NVidia's latest driver through Geforce Experience, it told me "restarting in 60 seconds" but I had unsaved work, so I shut GE forcibly using task manager. I restarted the PC less than five minutes later and its been happening since.

No new hardware.
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Here is a video of what's happening http://youtu.be/H2euq45XLxo
 
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Alright, so I had a spare hard drive that i formatted and installed win7 on.

I installed the 337.88 driver and played serious sam 3 BFE, so everything seems to be OK hardware wise.

I guess something is screwed up on my main hard drive/ssd then? I have over 3TB of stuff on there... I really don't want to wipe everything off and start from scratch but I don't know what to do. I rather fix it.

Any help would be immensley appreciated
 
You may have screwed your Nvidia install by not allowing the driver installer to complete what it was doing. If that's the case, those files may be in an unexpected state and not easily recoverable.

Try system restore. If that fails, I believe you can reinstall Windows without formatting the drive.
 
defaultluser said:
You may have screwed your Nvidia install by not allowing the driver installer to complete what it was doing. If that's the case, those files may be in an unexpected state and not easily recoverable.

Try system restore. If that fails, I believe you can reinstall Windows without formatting the drive.
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I don't have a system restore point.


I haven't thought about reinstalling w/o formatting. Great idea!

...how should I do this? I have a Samsung 840 250gb with the win7 install and a nearly full 3 tb had

Selecting windows repair didn't help. Do I just try to install on top of it?

(Sorry I'm kind of a noob)
 
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/installing-reinstalling-windows#1TC=windows-7

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1...without-formatting-and-retain-all-your-files/

The above work if you can get into Windows.

If you can't get into Windows, then follow these instructions to boot from the Windows DVD:

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsystems/ss/windows-7-new-install-part-1_2.htm

This will guide you through the CUSTOM installation option, which will only reformat if you explicitly tell Windows to do it.

Then when you get to Step 10 you should see your C drive listed (usually the first large partition you see). Select that, and Windows will detect your old install and save it in a Windows.old folder. It will only install Windows, and lleave the rest of your data files intact.
 
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Just run system restore from safe mode? A system restore image is made every time you do a driver install.....
 
You could try the following.

Boot into safe mode, go to command line run sfc /scannow

I would also go into device manager, show hidden drivers and remove any and all drivers that are listed for nvidia. I would also recommend using drive sweeper to remove any nvidia drivers. It sounds like a corruption of the nvidia drivers where something is left over from a bad install.
 
... this is going to sound really stupid

but i think i fixed it. I THINK What happened was right before the PC restarted for the GPU driver, I saw afterburner open and it had CRAZY values. it had like +2335 gpu clock and same thing for memory. I guess the Start OC at Startup button was checked.... so I think thats why this all happened, i only saw it for like a second before the restart, so i wasn't sure. I uninstalled it from the SSD when i booted from the fresh win7 hdd.

The only problem I have now is when I boot up it asks me if i want to go into Windows 7 or Windows 7 (recovered) instead of just going into the first one normally, but everything is working fine again.

Thanks for all the help guys, i appreciate it.
 
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