Hello, I really need some help here guys, kinda in an an emergency!
Essentially, my GTX 970 just arrived, and I've been saving for months for it and today is finally the day. I installed it, everything was going fine, the light came on, and it fitted very nicely.
When I turn my computer on, it discovered the new graphics card, but since no drivers were installed, it's basically useless. I couldn't play any games, and GPU-Z didn't even recognise it as a GTX 970, is simply called it a 'Standard VGA Adapter'. So I installed the latest NVidia driver '344.16' from the NVidia website. When I rebooted my computer, the trouble started.
My computer is now useless; when I turn it on, it loads the boot logo, and does the little windows animation...then the screen dies. Literally every time I try, the screen dies. I've tried different screens, both HDMI and DVI - nothing works. I've tried setting priority for PCI slots, disabling onboard graphics, everything I can in the bios (yes, it is the latest version).
So I did a system restore to yesterday, and tried again - no change, same problem. I tried again with the slightly older driver, to see if it was a new bug. Same issue. Essentially, when I have no drivers, I can boot into windows but do nothing there to do with my new graphics card, but with the drivers, windows fails to load. I have tried resetting default bios settings, everything.
I really really need help I'm pulling my hair out over this, I think I'm going to die. Please help me!
Essentially, my GTX 970 just arrived, and I've been saving for months for it and today is finally the day. I installed it, everything was going fine, the light came on, and it fitted very nicely.
When I turn my computer on, it discovered the new graphics card, but since no drivers were installed, it's basically useless. I couldn't play any games, and GPU-Z didn't even recognise it as a GTX 970, is simply called it a 'Standard VGA Adapter'. So I installed the latest NVidia driver '344.16' from the NVidia website. When I rebooted my computer, the trouble started.
My computer is now useless; when I turn it on, it loads the boot logo, and does the little windows animation...then the screen dies. Literally every time I try, the screen dies. I've tried different screens, both HDMI and DVI - nothing works. I've tried setting priority for PCI slots, disabling onboard graphics, everything I can in the bios (yes, it is the latest version).
So I did a system restore to yesterday, and tried again - no change, same problem. I tried again with the slightly older driver, to see if it was a new bug. Same issue. Essentially, when I have no drivers, I can boot into windows but do nothing there to do with my new graphics card, but with the drivers, windows fails to load. I have tried resetting default bios settings, everything.
I really really need help I'm pulling my hair out over this, I think I'm going to die. Please help me!