Accidentally Uninstalled Nvidia

[meed96]

I made a noobie mistake by uninstalling some of the nvidia programs. Now neither my GPU or my built in graphics card will display my desktop.

The computer is still running just fine, but I cannot see what's going on because neither of my graphics cards will display anything.

I'm worried about this, is there any way to fix this?

 

[CrispyChips]

Turn off the PC,unplug the monitor cable from your graphics card and plug it into your motherboard then restart the PC. Then go into your BIOS and enable your Integrated Graphics Card if it isnt. Save and exit.

Now your PC should boot up and go to the desktop(at a low resolution). From here you can re-download Graphics Drivers and install them. Once that's done you need to shut down the PC,plug the monitor back into your graphics card,restart and go through the BIOS to disable Integrated Graphics,save and exit.

That should solve your problem.

 

[trawetSluaP]

Have you tried a restart of the PC? If this doesn't work, I'd disconnect you GPU and reset the Mobo bios. This will (hopefully) mean you'll get a signal with the integrated graphics. I'd then run a program called DDU which will clean your PC of graphics card drivers. Once you've done this go onto the GPU's manufacturer website, download the latest drivers, pop your GPU back into your PC and install the latest drivers.

 

[ruecklm14]

Do you have the disk that came with your GPU?

 

[meed96]

I'm restarting it right now. It's not displaying anything, so I'm probably gonna have to take the GPU out. Can you explain somewhat what the Mobo bios is? Wouldn't resetting that get rid of my data/presets/options/etc?

 

[meed96]

Yes I still have the disk that came with it, but that's useless unless I can see the screen to install it.

 

[ruecklm14]

Yes I still have the disk that came with it, but that's useless unless I can see the screen to install it.

Try and restart the pc. You may not even need the disk and you could go onto the manufacturers website and download the drivers from there.

 

[CrispyChips]

Yes I still have the disk that came with it, but that's useless unless I can see the screen to install it.

should be able to move the cable(HDMI/DVI/VGA) from the GPU to the Motherboard and get a display,if its the Nvidia Drivers you uninstalled,like i believe it is.

 

[meed96]

Yes I still have the disk that came with it, but that's useless unless I can see the screen to install it.

Try and restart the pc. You may not even need the disk and you could go onto the manufacturers website and download the drivers from there.

Restarted it twice, didn't work.. I'm taking the GPU out now, gonna boot again with the integrated card.

 

[trawetSluaP]

I'm restarting it right now. It's not displaying anything, so I'm probably gonna have to take the GPU out. Can you explain somewhat what the Mobo bios is? Wouldn't resetting that get rid of my data/presets/options/etc?

Motherboard BIOS, I don't have a brilliant understanding of BIOs but from what I understand it's what runs the Motherboard, kinda...

If you reset it, it'll reset any settings you changed through the BIOS. When I had integrated graphics and lost picture for any reason a reset of the Mobo BIOS sorted it out for me.

 

[meed96]

Yes I still have the disk that came with it, but that's useless unless I can see the screen to install it.

should be able to move the cable(HDMI/DVI/VGA) from the GPU to the Motherboard and get a display,if its the Nvidia Drivers you uninstalled,like i believe it is.

Yeah I tried that, and it worked for a little bit, and then didn't.

 

[meed96]

Alright, took the GPU out and plugged the monitor back into the default card. The screen was working all the way (past BIOS and the warning screen about the computer shutting down) to the desktop. Now it's black again. Should I try launching it in safe mode instead?

 

[meed96]

Okay so I launched in safe mode, and the screen stayed on. I put the disk in and I'm installing the drivers right now. Gonna wait til they're done and try putting the GPU back in.

The strange thing to me is that the integrated card didn't work. Any ideas why it would have failed as well?

 

[trawetSluaP]

Okay so I launched in safe mode, and the screen stayed on. I put the disk in and I'm installing the drivers right now. Gonna wait til they're done and try putting the GPU back in.

The strange thing to me is that the integrated card didn't work. Any ideas why it would have failed as well?

When you install a dedicated GPU the integrated graphics are deactivated. Could've been a BIOS issue where they weren't automatically reactivated.

 

[meed96]

Okay so I launched in safe mode, and the screen stayed on. I put the disk in and I'm installing the drivers right now. Gonna wait til they're done and try putting the GPU back in.

The strange thing to me is that the integrated card didn't work. Any ideas why it would have failed as well?

When you install a dedicated GPU the integrated graphics are deactivated. Could've been a BIOS issue where they weren't automatically reactivated.

Interesting, I did not know that. I'll keep that in mind, thank you.

 

[meed96]

It's very weird. I took the GPU out.

Starting in safe mode with my built in graphics card, everything works as it should. But when I start normally with my built in card, the screen goes black again.

Anyway, downloading a bunch of drivers, gonna put the card back in when I'm done. I'll reply again if works or fails. Hopefully works.

 

[meed96]

So I re-installed Cuda 6.0 and re-installed my drivers. But the screen still goes black when my desktop shows up. Any ideas?

 

[meed96]

Scratch that it's working now

So happy. Guess I learnt my lesson for playing around with Nvidia drivers.

Thanks for all the help