Hi, let me begin with stating that I've searched and tried so many options to fix this issue already so it's not like I didn't try to search before creating thread.
EDIT: I've edited this thread further today since the issue is getting deeper. Should contain more details now.
Anyhow..
System: Win 7 64bit
Card: Nvidia GTX 1060
Motherboard: Asus p9x79
So the other day I for some reason felt that I wanted to update my graphics card driver. During install it says Failed install and before I have time to read the reason for failure the screen goes black. I wait around not feeling super comfy with resetting at this point but I do after some time. Computer boots up but shows black screen where the login should be. (starting windows then black).
Now, I can go into safe mode. Which I did and cleaned out the drivers with Display Driver Uninstaller. Then I booted back into black screen again.
So from safe mode I can install my old drivers that did actually work before update. (I use clean install from nvidia installer as a mention)
However these give me the same black screen now.
I even tried an older card that i know works in this setup before (GTX 680) after a driver wipe and then installed drivers for that one but no matter what card I choose, the moment I've given it ANY driver version it just boots to black screen. I can boot normally with either card when it's freshly inserted and has no drivers but again... As soon as it gets drivers the computer gives black screen again.
Another thing that works is going into System>Device Manager> and then right click disable the GTX 1060 or 680. When it's disabled the computer boots normally but if I then go in and re-enable it the computer asks for restart which of course leads to black screen again.
An interesting side note is that before drivers are installed the fans on both cards are spinning at high speed but after drivers are installed and card is enabled I can hear them power down the fans as usual when Windows is booted at the black screen. Just the way it normally does after being given drivers. So hardware wise the card seems pretty happy and understanding of its drivers.
This leads me to believe it's not a hardware issue but some software problem? Someone suggested I try and clean possible remnants of old drivers with CCleaner but I honestly can't even find the option in it? I tried doing a scan and fix on registry but it did no difference either since it seemed to find mostly unrelated things.
What could possibly be going on here?
Sorry for joining forum just to throw this problem out there. Feels selfish but maybe someone else has the same problem in the future.
I've tried resetting CMOS but to no difference. Some suggestions I've found was to update BIOS. But what would that do since it can go as far as windows login anyway?
EDIT: I've edited this thread further today since the issue is getting deeper. Should contain more details now.
Anyhow..
System: Win 7 64bit
Card: Nvidia GTX 1060
Motherboard: Asus p9x79
So the other day I for some reason felt that I wanted to update my graphics card driver. During install it says Failed install and before I have time to read the reason for failure the screen goes black. I wait around not feeling super comfy with resetting at this point but I do after some time. Computer boots up but shows black screen where the login should be. (starting windows then black).
Now, I can go into safe mode. Which I did and cleaned out the drivers with Display Driver Uninstaller. Then I booted back into black screen again.
So from safe mode I can install my old drivers that did actually work before update. (I use clean install from nvidia installer as a mention)
However these give me the same black screen now.
I even tried an older card that i know works in this setup before (GTX 680) after a driver wipe and then installed drivers for that one but no matter what card I choose, the moment I've given it ANY driver version it just boots to black screen. I can boot normally with either card when it's freshly inserted and has no drivers but again... As soon as it gets drivers the computer gives black screen again.
Another thing that works is going into System>Device Manager> and then right click disable the GTX 1060 or 680. When it's disabled the computer boots normally but if I then go in and re-enable it the computer asks for restart which of course leads to black screen again.
An interesting side note is that before drivers are installed the fans on both cards are spinning at high speed but after drivers are installed and card is enabled I can hear them power down the fans as usual when Windows is booted at the black screen. Just the way it normally does after being given drivers. So hardware wise the card seems pretty happy and understanding of its drivers.
This leads me to believe it's not a hardware issue but some software problem? Someone suggested I try and clean possible remnants of old drivers with CCleaner but I honestly can't even find the option in it? I tried doing a scan and fix on registry but it did no difference either since it seemed to find mostly unrelated things.
What could possibly be going on here?
Sorry for joining forum just to throw this problem out there. Feels selfish but maybe someone else has the same problem in the future.
I've tried resetting CMOS but to no difference. Some suggestions I've found was to update BIOS. But what would that do since it can go as far as windows login anyway?