Lots of Horizontal Lines and Blue Screen Errors. Please help I have no idea what's going on.

[xillyllix]

I decieded to upgrade my GPU to a Sapphire R9 Fury. First thing I did was uninstall the software from my current video card and took that video card out. I tried fitting the new card in and the case was 1/4 of an inch too short. So, I took basically everything out and cut a part of the bracket off with a dremel.

Put all the parts back together and the video card fits. It looks okay and when I came back to the computer it looks like the system rebooted itself. Okay great. For a monitor I'm using a tv and its connected to my computer through a hdmi cable that goes to the end of the video card. I turn the computer off but it's taking it's time. No biggie. I return later and the tv has an image of the windows logo and the pc was already off? Really wierd.

I was using my pc was reg. surfing and all of a sudden I get these weird as vertical lines going horizontally throughout my screen. I can't do anything so I rebooted. Those lines won't go away.

I still have my old video card. I'm not sure what to do at this poing but I think the new video card is DOA and is wrecking havok on my system. So, I took out the video card and put the old one back in.

Hopefully I can just uninstall the software and install the old one and see if I can return this. I do not know if changing video cards like this made things worse or not.

I get this blue screen I never saw before:

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

Driver_Irrql_Not_Less_or_Equal

What do I do now? Never encountered such a problem before.

 

[terry4536]

Those horizontal lines are a symptom of a failing graphics card. I would return the graphics card if you are still in the return period. If not then I would contact the manufacturer for warranty repair or replacement.

 

[dudio]

List your system hardware please, especially your PSU

 

[terry4536]

I would try removing the graphics card and trying the integrated graphics. If you can get that far then go to the device manager . Under Display Adapter you can uninstall the new graphics card driver. Then try reinstalling the old graphics card and driver.

 

[xillyllix]

I'm actually freaking out over here. I took the new video card out and put the old one back in and still same problem of blue screens. Right now I'm run memtest just to see if it's possible its the memory and mono. Its been ten minutes no errors.

Going to try and reboot to safe mode.

 

[terry4536]

Are you using the graphic card video output or the motherboard video outputs? If you are using the old graphics card with the new driver, then removing or disabling the new cards driver may help.

 

[xillyllix]

I do not know how to remove the new card driver. My system is old so I figure I will upgrade the video card and later the ram.

Parts list:
MSI P55-GD%% LGA 1156 Intel P55 Chipset Intel
(original video card) XFX Radeon HD5850
Corsair 750W TX Series
Intel Core i%-750 Lynnfield
Corsair XMS3 8GB
Then you have the HDD and the rest.

Motherboard doesn't have on board video output. You need a video card. I replace the old video card witht eh new one and had all these problems. Dont know what to do and can't get into safe mode.

I don't remember how to get into safemode it's windows 7 ultimate edition.
Hitting ESC sends me to this red screen I never seen before. Grub4Dos 2009-10-06
F8 just loads windows very slowly.
f12 does nothing.

Should I put the old video card in a different slot? When computer started acting up I figure it must be the GPU so I removed it and put in the old one. Same problems.

What to do? Is something wrong with mobo as well? All these problems happened after installing new video card.

 

[terry4536]

The error you mentioned is a driver conflict. The installed graphics card has a driver problem. Windows should have loaded a generic driver for basic ooperation of the installed graphics card

Open up the Windows control panel. If you have Windows 10, the Control Panel can be found under Windows System in the start men.

Then open up the Device Manager. Then click on the Display Adapter. It will show the installed graphics. Then click on the graphics adapter and select driver in the menu. Then you can update the graphics driver there.

The graphics driver can be dowloaded from the manufacturer's website. It can also be downloaded from http://support.amd.com/en-us/download or http://www.geforce.com/drivers.

 

[xillyllix]

I was able to go into safe mode and unistalled the driver and software. Reboot computer and it appears to be okay. I put the old video card back in and thought I was okay.

PC load a little slow but it appears okay now the blue screen came back ad not sure what to do

 

[xillyllix]

Is it possible it's both a video card problem and a virus? After uninstalling old video card I installed the new one. Then horizontal lines. But when reading the blue streen it says it's because of ndistpr64.sys.

It looks like ndistpr64.sys is a virus and I am having a hard time going back into safe mode. F8 is not nothing and I cannot acces msconfig to select safe mode.

 

[terry4536]

If you are still having problems with blue screens, I would suggest trying to repair the operating system with the system disk. If that is not possible then , try reinstalling the operating system.

I doubt that the problem is related to a virus. It is much more likely due to a driver problem. Or at least it started out that way. But I suppose you could have downloaded something in your attempts to repair the initial problem. Run your anti-malware software, but with multiple blue screens a fresh install of the operating system is probably necessary.

 

[xillyllix]

I was able to go into safe mode once using msconfig and selecting safe boot. None of the Fxx would work. I wanted to avoid reformatting as it's a lot of work to set everything up to my liking. Fortunately, while I lost data, most of everything was on other HDDs.

When I was in safe mode that one time I found about 5 recent programs I have no idea what they were. So, I must of downloaded something that acted up around the same time as my video card problem.

Most of my stuff were on other drives but still this really sucks. Asked Newegg for an exchange and they told me to contact Sapphire. I saw two bad reviews and figures well that's the minority GPU should be okay. I don't even remember downloading anything recently. Can't get into bios and directly after windows 7 splash screen I get the blue light of death.

 

[xillyllix]

I tried using system restore on my windows 7 disc and all I got were error messages. 🙁 sigh..... At least my other HDD were okay.

 

[terry4536]

I think a reinstall of Windows 7 is your best path at this point.

 

[xillyllix]

I'm going to try and return the GPU.

However is it possible the PSU is too low for this video card? It's a Corsair 750W TX Series PSU.

 

[terry4536]

The Corsair TX power supplies are usually pretty good power supplies. So although it's possible that it has degraded over time. The Sapphire R9 Fury graphics card has a system requirement of 750 watts.

So if the power supply is old, it is possible that it has degraded enough to cause problems on a power hungry card. You can swap the power supply (with a 750 - 850 watt PSU ). It is difficult to test the watts for yourself because the power supply watts is tested under a load.