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Hello everyone,

So my r9 270 died. My screen started jumping around and freezing during gaming. I'd get a black or beige screen with stripes and I would have to power down to restart. Eventually, my PC wouldn't get to the sign in menu and would just go black and freeze or go into Windows Recovery. GPU gets hot really fast upon start up.

I was dying to know if it was the GPU or something bigger, so I bought a tiny upgrade and got the gtx 1050 ti. I could only go into safe mode, so I decided not to uninstall my old GPU. I didn't want the screen to go black in safe mode too as I've heard stories.

So I put in the GTX and voila. I got into my sign in and was able to go to my desktop. The screen did turn blue for a second in the sign in page, so that scared me a bit. When I clicked it went back to normal. That's happened in the past, nothing major. Or is it?

My question is, is there a way to uninstall my old GPU without plugging it back in? (I know it's in the PC's best interest to uninstall old drivers before installing new ones) And it seems like my PC did not pick up the new GTX GPU, but is it because I need to go to the site and download the correct driver first? If I have a picture and am plugged into my new GPU, it is working right?

Thanks guys!
 
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There are two parts to uninstalling a videocard, removing the card(which you've done) and removing the drivers. You do not need to install the card again to remove the drivers. Just uninstall the AMD videocard drivers. Then you will be in the the temporary Windows driver mode until you install the Nvidia drivers which you can get from the Nvidia website.
 
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Cool, I restarted again and this time it read the GTX. So now I can boot into safe mode and uninstall my old video card? The only weird thing, is that my old gpu is not showing up under display adapters. Just the new GTX one. Is there another way to uninstall this in safe mode?
 
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Cool, I restarted again and this time it read the GTX. So now I can boot into safe mode and uninstall my old video card? The only weird thing, is that my old gpu is not showing up under display adapters. Just the new GTX one. Is there another way to uninstall this in safe mode?
 
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