Gibberish on screen when installing any display driver for GTX 275

Aedir

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Hi guys.Now for some time now I have had the problem of my graphics card overheating.The temperatures get up to 85 degrees in like 5 minutes with the fan speed at 100 % .
I would play a game,and all of a sudden the computer just shuts down and refuses to turn back on for like an hour.So the other day I took out my graphics card,cleaned it and put it back in.
Now this is where my real problems began.Up untill the time I pulled it out and cleaned it It would just overheat when playing games,but it would display the normal stuff like the desktop at full resolution with no problems.Now,every time I install any kind of driver,be it the windows default driver for my graphics card or the newest Nvidia drivers all it shows upon boot is the welcome screen,and when it's sopposed to show the desktop I get a wierd jumble of colors and shapes,and I don't hear the windows jingle.I really don't understand what the problem is.I can only run it WITHOUT any drivers.As soon as I install a driver I get the gibberish of colors and shapes.
Any help would be welcome :)
 
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Hello... It is typical that the FAN will go out long before the Nvidia GPU does... Also if I experience a GPU temperature problem, I Check/replace my Thermal Grease on the GPU, You must have moist thermal grease for best conductivity of heat... Has yours dried out?
Here is a general performance chart... http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+275
You could Be needing More GPU Power, a more modern card for your Gaming, and that will help keep the GPU temperatures Down... And Give you more EYE Candy.
If you are experienced, you could try a re-flash of your Video card Bio's as a Last resort.
Boot into safe mode and use a driver cleaner or even ccleaner to remove the old files and then install the drives while in safe mode. If the problem is still there disable fast boot as well as enabling secure boot if you have that option.
 


I have tried it,and unfortunately it didn't work.The thing I don't understand is why it would work without the drivers as opposed to with the drivers.It won't even show the desktop,it just shows some colores and shapes,and after a few seconds the monitor stops responding (the little light that shows it's working starts going off and on as if the pc was turned off)
 
Try grabbing anything important off the box and then try 1 of the 3 linux distros. Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora. These 3 have good driver support for linux, and this would probably be the only option just to rule out any hardware or driver faults. They should have some good generic drives that will allow you to use it for hd videos etc... but if you are gaming you might run into problems. If linux doesn't work either and if you still are having issues I would replace it with something like a cheap gt 620 or even 720 or 730 if you don't plan on playing games just to see if it works nicely. If you still have issues you can send the card back and just buy like an i3 and a intel motherboard. For everyday use the graphics are just fine. Or if you really are a big gamer a pretty good deal atm would be a r9 280x and a i5 + motherboard for about $430-440 total guessing you have ddr3 memory if not add add another $50 for a 8 gig kit. Downgrade the gpu to a gtx 660 to reduce the price to about $370-390
 
Hello... It is typical that the FAN will go out long before the Nvidia GPU does... Also if I experience a GPU temperature problem, I Check/replace my Thermal Grease on the GPU, You must have moist thermal grease for best conductivity of heat... Has yours dried out?
Here is a general performance chart... http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+GTX+275
You could Be needing More GPU Power, a more modern card for your Gaming, and that will help keep the GPU temperatures Down... And Give you more EYE Candy.
If you are experienced, you could try a re-flash of your Video card Bio's as a Last resort.
 
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