Windows won't boot with NVidia drivers installed

[Varmint]

Help, I installed my new MSI 650 Ti Boost, and it'll boot fine with the default VGA driver from Windows, but when I install NVidia's drivers and reboot, it won't go into Windows.

It's an Asus Z87 Pro, so I tried setting graphics to PCIE in the BIOS, thinking it's something to do with the iGPU, but didn't work.

Tried setting resolution to 640 x 480 in safe mode screen, that didn't work. I even tried MSI's drivers, didn't work.

Device manager doesn't see the card either, and device search doesn't find it. There's a "generic monitor", but I figure that's my monitor?

Any ideas?

PS Running a Corsair CX400 PSU at the moment while my Seasonic 650RM is being RMA'd - but I assume that's enough power for a 650 Ti Boost.

 

[Domini]

What do you mean by "not go into Windows"

Does it crash? No screen shows ups? Need more information to help you out.
I would recommend looking up BIOS updates for the Motherboard.

 

[DraginDime]

Have you tried installing the card in a different pci-e slot on your board? If not try that and see what happens. You can try to update your boards bios also.
If none of that works, do you have another PC you can try the card in?

If it does the same thing in a different PC, I'd probably send it in for an RMA, you may have just gotten a faulty card. Your PSU should be ok for that card. I've got a 650Ti in my HTPC and i'm using a very crappy diablotek PSU thats rated at 650w, but in reality puts out less then 350w. I really need to replace that thing before it burns my house down.....

 

[Varmint]

Thanks guys, there's a discussion here in the motherboard forum.

What do you mean by "not go into Windows"

Does it crash? No screen shows ups? Need more information to help you out.
I would recommend looking up BIOS updates for the Motherboard.

Right after the "Starting Windows" screen, it powers off and reboots.

Have you tried installing the card in a different pci-e slot on your board? If not try that and see what happens. You can try to update your boards bios also.
If none of that works, do you have another PC you can try the card in?

If it does the same thing in a different PC, I'd probably send it in for an RMA, you may have just gotten a faulty card. Your PSU should be ok for that card. I've got a 650Ti in my HTPC and i'm using a very crappy diablotek PSU thats rated at 650w, but in reality puts out less then 350w. I really need to replace that thing before it burns my house down.....

Someone suggested a different PCIE slot, and that actually worked - once - then it went back to rebooting next time I restarted. I could not duplicate it.

I don't have another PC to try, but I'm going to try another PSU, either buy one or wait for my Seasonic RMA.

I'm still using the rev0 bios on my Z87 Pro, been scared to update it. I could try that, i forgot about that.

 

[Domini]

I'm still using the rev0 bios on my Z87 Pro, been scared to update it. I could try that, i forgot about that.

No reason to be scared of when updating it. As long as you dont shut off your PC in the process then you should be good. to go as new revisions can add a lot of fixes and improvements

 

[Varmint]

Update: the video card has degenerated, first showing diagonal red lines, and now won't post at all. It's getting RMA'd. Hopefully it's not some weird motherboard problem, since I've now had to RMA my PSU and video card.