BSOD/black screen after/while installing Nvidia GeForce drivers

[mintsnapple]

Good morning all! After receiving help on my previous dilemma where my monitor wasn't displaying anything when connected to my graphics card, I just wanna say the community here is amazing. However, another problem came when I was trying to install the drivers for my graphics card, so I would very very much appreciate any help I can receive on this matter!

The first time I successfully connected to my GPU and went to Device Manager, it was listed as Microsoft Basic Adapter, so I assumed I needed to install drivers. I downloaded them straight from the Nvidia website. It detected everything perfectly, but while installing, the screen just turned black. Interestingly, any music I had on during installation turned off as well, so I knew something was wrong.

I held the power button to manually restart my computer, and I would either get a black screen after the Lenovo logo or a BSOD with stuff like
"Driver IRQL is not less than or equal to" or "video VDR failure" or
"system service exception" or
"kmode exception not handled" or
"registry filter driver exception" or
"NTFS file system"
etc.

One time, I DID manage to get through to my login screen, and successfully logged into Windows. Immediately, Windows was installing driver software without me telling anything. After it finished, I restarted and relogged in. My computer felt faster and to test this, I ran League of Legends, which ran phenomenally better. To further test, I ran Resident Evil 6, which also ran excellently, but then my computer froze when I changed the resolution to 1600x900 (my native). Afterwards, manually restarting seems to only give me the same BSOD/black screen problems as before, and I don't know how I can reproduce that one time when Windows automatically installed updates for me. The only thing that works for me is going into safe mode, rolling back to Microsoft Basic Adapter, and rebooting normally. However I obviously need some sort of driver to use this GPU.

Things I have tried:
-Using different/older drivers from the website gives the same problem each time
-Using DDU/CCleaner before an install
-Doing a clean installation
-Installing with GeForce Experience
-Reseating the GPU
-I can successfully install the driver in safe mode, but after rebooting I just get the black screen after Lenovo logo
-System Restoring to before all of this happened, I found that the driver was successfully installed after logging in, and that I needed to restart for hardware changes to take effect. After doing so, I would just get the same black screen.

My specs:

My power supply is a EVGA 600W Bronze Power Supply, and my GPU is a EVGA GeForce 9800 GTX, which I know is old, but I got it for free from a friend, who never used it from what I know.

I would very much appreciate any help on this matter...I literally have been pulling my hairs out for the last 24 hours on this GPU. The problems Nvidia has will be taken into account the next time I look for a new GPU. Thank you!

Edit: I just installed the drivers in safe mode, which worked successfully, and then disabled the GPU in Device Manager. Rebooting, everything worked fine. But, immediately after enabling the GPU again in device manager, I get the black screen. What is going on here?

 

[delellod123]

use MSI afterburner or something similar to monitor GPU temperature while gaming (when u are able to). This can rule out or determine if the issue is from heat.

 

[mintsnapple]

use MSI afterburner or something similar to monitor GPU temperature while gaming (when u are able to). This can rule out or determine if the issue is from heat.

thanks so much for the reply! But would heat really inhibit driver installation? Unless like..the heat permanently damaged my GPU in which case I don't really see my situation getting better

 

[veiledvenus]

I'm having a similar problem, described at http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2503187/p9x79-pro-1pro-x64-black-screen-boot-hang-post.html - I'm subscribing to your thread, since this seems to be one of the dozens of threads of people with this issue that no one on TomsHardware is even looking at, let alone trying to help with. If I find anything that might be helpful to all of us having black screen issues after POST but before Windows splash screen starts (that seems to be related to NVIDIA driver issues possibly), I'll post a link here. Good luck! I really wish TomsHardware had as many people as active here as they used to - I'm beginning to wonder if the forums here are dying out.

 

[veiledvenus]

I have found a temporary fix for this problem. I go into control panel > uninstall programs and uninstall the three NVIDIA programs that Windows Update keeps reinstalling (NVIDIA 3D Viewer, NVIDIA Update, and NVIDIA Driver programs - and tell it to "restart later" on the final program) before every time I shut down or restart the computer, I haven't had a black screen hang once.

Now I just need to figure out how to prevent the NVIDIA programs from reinstalling with each Windows Update, permanently. Any ideas?