I recently upgraded to a 4K TV. So, since then I have been searching for a 4K graphics card that I can afford. Eventually managed to get a nvidia geforce gtx 660 2gb. In order to use the high resolution on it you need to use the display port, so i bought an adapter to hdmi. Installed the card last night....and could get not output at all over the adapter. Tried the hdmi and that seemed to have worked fine....so I put it down to a faulty adapter.
Took some trouble getting the drivers installed, but when I finally did the output was a bit oversized for the screen...so I try and adjust in the software on both xp64 and windows 7... and it wouldn't work. It looked like that part of the s/w was crashing out. I did wonder if it was a power issue, I added up everything in my system on Newegg's psu calculator..and it added up to 491 watts on 5oo watt psu, pretty close so in order to eliminate power issue i disconnected several hard drives.
I was still getting some stability issues, sometimes wouldn't boot...sometimes it would hang when loading the OS. Anyway, to cut a long story short I eventually stopped getting any output from the new graphics card. So, it has to be the card that is faulty right? So reverted back to my previous card radeon hd 5450....I'm worried that the faulty graphics card may have killed my motherboard or something as I just couldn't get it to boot for a long time. But after reseating the card several times, pulling some memory.....and letting it sit for half an hour with power completely disconnected...it finally booted!
But now I have this problem. Getting into XP 64 i immediately get BSOD and it reboots. I believe it's because of the nvidia graphics driver still being there.....so I try safe mode. Takes long time to load up...and then I can't do anything. Been many years since I have had to use safe mode, but i get no start menu/ taskbar, right click doesn't do anything...so something not right there?
I'm hoping that if I can get the nvidia driver uninstalled everything else will be fixable now. Not tried in windows 7 yet. Is there anyway to do that?
Took some trouble getting the drivers installed, but when I finally did the output was a bit oversized for the screen...so I try and adjust in the software on both xp64 and windows 7... and it wouldn't work. It looked like that part of the s/w was crashing out. I did wonder if it was a power issue, I added up everything in my system on Newegg's psu calculator..and it added up to 491 watts on 5oo watt psu, pretty close so in order to eliminate power issue i disconnected several hard drives.
I was still getting some stability issues, sometimes wouldn't boot...sometimes it would hang when loading the OS. Anyway, to cut a long story short I eventually stopped getting any output from the new graphics card. So, it has to be the card that is faulty right? So reverted back to my previous card radeon hd 5450....I'm worried that the faulty graphics card may have killed my motherboard or something as I just couldn't get it to boot for a long time. But after reseating the card several times, pulling some memory.....and letting it sit for half an hour with power completely disconnected...it finally booted!
But now I have this problem. Getting into XP 64 i immediately get BSOD and it reboots. I believe it's because of the nvidia graphics driver still being there.....so I try safe mode. Takes long time to load up...and then I can't do anything. Been many years since I have had to use safe mode, but i get no start menu/ taskbar, right click doesn't do anything...so something not right there?
I'm hoping that if I can get the nvidia driver uninstalled everything else will be fixable now. Not tried in windows 7 yet. Is there anyway to do that?