PC not working after graphics card drivers install.

[dannydan508]

So for Christmas I got new PC parts, cpu, motherboard, case, and psu. I kept my gt730 and a newly formatted hard drive. Upon building the PC, I booted it up just fine. I then proceeded to use the hard drive from my old computer, just for now so I didn't have to install any games. I get in, and I go to the display adapter properties to make sure the GPU was detected just fine, and the display lost signal, then came back. Then it went away again, and then it came back again. Until finally when the display went away, the post screen came up. Then windows wasn't able to load. I previously posted this on Tom's hardware, and they told me to reinstall Windows, so I did. Everything worked fine, until I tried to install the graphics card drivers. During the installing, the screen would go black, and the computer would restart. After that, I was not able to boot into windows normally unless I uninstalled the graphics card through device manager.

I have since given up on trying to fix it, and put my graphics card back in my old computer, even though there's not as much performance.

If anyone knows why the drivers could crash the PC, let me know. I have tried:
Another GPU(low end ATI Card)
Putting the GPU that isn't working in another PC.
Reinstalling windows


Specs:
Xeon x3430
Unknown motherboard brand, supports Xeon and has pciex16 though
8gb team Vulcan ddr3
450bt EVGA(plently of power)
1tb 2.5" hard drive

 

[dannydan508]

After talking to Nvidia for like an hour, I deleted all drivers on the drive, and tried to install old drivers from July, and it did not work. I'm so confused as to why my gpu won't work after I install drivers...

 

[hang-the-9]

You said your old card worked in this thread http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3601592/figure-wrong.html

Could be a bad card (you can test it in another system), or something wrong with the motherboard slot and your card specifically.

Did you check for a newer BIOS for the motherboard? You said you got it off ebay, if it was an OEM board it won't have as good support for video cards as one made for build your own computers.

 

[dannydan508]

Yeah, the card works in my Dell optiplex system, so the cards fine. Its probably a Motherboard compatibility issue, but I might be getting an r9 270 for really cheap anyways, so I'll try it with that if I get it

 

[dannydan508]

So I've sortve found the issue. I decided to take my PC down to the living room, and try it through HDMI. It works perfectly. But if I try through VGA or dvi, it just bugs out. Anybody have any ideas? Mine is maybe that theres no audio device plugged in.