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HELP ASAP - VIDEO CARD DRIVER GONE WRONG

MrTurtleWaffles
By MrTurtleWaffles
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Okay, so I was in the process of updating to the newest Nvidia beta driver, and my PC froze. Being stupid me, I thought I could just restart my PC and it would be fixed. No. Not at all. I got a black screen when I booted up, and my monitor lost signal from the video card. I have tried switching to my onboard video, and even tried hitting the reset button, but to no avail. HELP ME, PLEASE. MY CARD DIDN'T COME WITH A WARRANTY, EVEN THOUGH IT SAID ON AMAZON "COMES WITH THREE YEAR WARRANTY." HELP. My card is an NVIDIA GTX 770 2GB, if that helps, and I am using Windows 8.1 as an OS.

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This beta driver has caused many issues to a lot of people

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This is why I don't use beta drivers.

 

I was still using the 331.82 Drivers on my GTX770 up until about a week ago.  The only reason I updated to the 337.88 drivers was because I had read that there were significant performance improvements.

I don't use beta drivers for the simple fact that they are BETA, which means, not finished.

 

Somewhere I think a lot of people go wrong is, download every new driver that comes out.  Although, technically, there is nothing wrong with this, driver updates affect different Video Cards in different ways.  For example it might give a 650Ti a massive performance improvement across the board, but it will cause someone with a 770 to crash out of a game that previously had no issues.

 

I use the phrase; "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" when it comes to drivers, if the driver you were using worked without issue, what reason is there to update?

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It happened to my laptop, I know its a totally differnet case, but with an external monitor connected it was working, I now know about you, but remove the GPU, connect the pc to the monitor through the onboard, if it works, turn off the pc, plug the GPU back in with the monitor connected to the iGPU and install the drivers, then I think it will work... Remember REMOVE the GPU from the mobo

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I have gone into the BIOS and done a complete system restore.
Everything is better, though I am going to definitely wait for the full driver.

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