GTX 660 TI Not Being Recognized

bigbubba645

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Feb 17, 2013
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Hey All,

So I went ahead and built my new gaming rig yesterday. I had all my components except my GPU and everything went flawlessly. I installed windows 7 and had everything up and running last night. I was using my i5-3570k onboard graphics and had a resolution of 1920x1080 (my 24" Dell monitor's max). So my GPU came today, it is an MSI GTX 660ti power edition. After work, I installed it and the resolution was terrible (to be expected without drivers). I popped in the driver CD that came with it and then downloaded the most recent driver from the NVidia website. For some reason, I don't think the drivers are working because in my DXDIAG it is only reading a "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" for my card. I'm fairly new to PC building so I have no idea what to do. The highest resolution I can get is 1280x1024 and it looks terrible. I am currently using the VGA In on my monitor, and the graphics card came with a VGA to DVI-D converter that goes into my video card. I tried running an HDMI cable, and while I could get a 1920x1080 resolution it was not full screen. Any idea how to get my computer to recognize the card? Getting very frustrating.

Thanks
 
Also, I should add, that every time I try to install the new driver, after the computer reboots, windows crashes. My monitor goes black and I have to reset the system. It then prompts me for a windows repair which I have been doing. Is that repair maybe removing the driver each time?