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Video card upgrade issue.

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StiCy

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Just got an GTX 260 off ebay in the mail today. Took out my 9800 GTX and put in the GTX 260. Then booted into windows using what looks like the generic vga driver and windows said it was installing the needed software. Why would it need to install anything? I already had Nvidia drivers loaded for my 9800 GTX. I also ran driver sweeper. So windows loads its stuff and asks to be rebooted. Windows reboots and prompts me to login. Resolution and color is back to normal. After login the screen I get a bunch of artifacts and windows freezes up. After a while it blue screens. It now blue screens in both safe mode and regular mode. Shut down the machine pulled the GTX 260, put the 9800 GTX back in. Now I get blue screens with both cards. The only way I could get back the normal was to use a restore point. Everything is back to normal using the 9800 GTX. I want to try the GTX 260 again, I am wondering if I got a bad card. Did the driver windows load get corrupted and keep windows from loading?
 
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StiCy said:
Just got an GTX 260 off ebay in the mail today. Took out my 9800 GTX and put in the GTX 260. Then booted into windows using what looks like the generic vga driver and windows said it was installing the needed software. Why would it need to install anything? I already had Nvidia drivers loaded for my 9800 GTX. I also ran driver sweeper. So windows loads its stuff and asks to be rebooted. Windows reboots and prompts me to login. Resolution and color is back to normal. After login the screen I get a bunch of artifacts and windows freezes up. After a while it blue screens. It now blue screens in both safe mode and regular mode. Shut down the machine pulled the GTX 260, put the 9800 GTX back in. Now I get blue screens with both cards. The only way I could get back the normal was to use a restore point. Everything is back to normal using the 9800 GTX. I want to try the GTX 260 again, I am wondering if I got a bad card. Did the driver windows load get corrupted and keep windows from loading?
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Nope. That is normal behavior if the new graphics card has somewhat different secondary features than your older card. I'd recommend completely uninstalling the NVIDIA drivers manually before switching cards, and then reinstalling the NVIDIA drivers manually after installing the new card.
 
So round two, I uninstalled the 9800 GTX from the device manager. Also I uninstalled anything Nvidia related from add/remove programs. Then shut windows down and removed the 9800 GTX and then installed the GTX 260. Started up windows 7 and it finds the new card and says its installing the software. Also there is no way to stop windows from doing this. Windows then asks to reboot. Computer then boots back into windows and sits at the logon screen. Up to this point everything is fine, the resolution is at 1600x1050 and the color is correct. After logging in I still get a bunch of artifacts and the "Welcome" message freezes. If I wait a while my desktop loads and I can see everything, but there are still artifacts on the screen. After about 15 seconds the screen goes blank and my monitor goes into sleep mode. I check that the fan is still spinning and it is. I even tried the other DVI port. Still no luck. Removed the GTX 260 and put my 9800 GTX back in. Everything is back to normal. Any ideas?
 
I assume your using Windows 7? When you uninstall the driver from device manager there should be a check box that asks you if you want to delete the driver. Check it off to stop Windows from installing the gtx 260.
 
tosgamer said:
I assume your using Windows 7? When you uninstall the driver from device manager there should be a check box that asks you if you want to delete the driver. Check it off to stop Windows from installing the gtx 260.
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I am using windows 7 64bit. I checked the "delete driver" box when uninstalling the 9800 GTX. After I put the GTX 260 in windows just loads its Driver. Would I need to go into safe mode and uninstall the 260 like i did the 9800 and check the "delete driver" box? Then I should be able to load windows the regular way and load a current driver from the Nvidia site, without windows getting in the way.
 
Definitely sounds like a bad card. Even without nvidia's drivers, you shouldn't get artifacts.
 
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