[Problem] Extreme nvidia driver issues.

[zaakery]

Hello everyone, I received this computer long ago on christmas 2012, why did I get an HP computer? I have no idea. Well, the summer after, my friend sold me his gtx 670 for a large chunk off the price, so I took it. I installed that graphics card, and it worked like a charm (other than the 6 beeps but it didn't let me even access bios to go into legacy boot anyways.) Regardless, it didn't matter because it worked. I had that for a while, then my hard drive started acting up. So we got that replaced, and decided to go into the whole graphics card beeping problem as well. We installed the old graphics card to be able to access the bios, turned it on legacy boot, disabled fast boot, and put the new one back in after a full start up. This time, after multiple restarts and confirming that the graphics card was installed into the computer correctly, it just wasn't picking up ANY signal at any point of time. So, we got our warranty on it, and got a BRAND NEW Gtx 670, which is extremely beneficial for me considering what I paid for the first one, but back to the point. We put the bios back to legacy boot and fast boot back off, put the card in, same exact problem. What I think it is is HP's stupid motherboard not allowing any new/foreign hardware because they only want us using their stuff. But, there's a different current issue. We installed the old card back in for the time being, (Nvidia GT 640) and it works fine, but I can't play games. I constantly get the "Bsod" (The windows 8 one is nothing like the older ones) and so I managed to install a crash report program before it went bsod again, turns out I need to update my drivers, so I do so, and now I don't get the Bsod, but EVERY time I play a game or sometimes when I'm not even in a game, the nvidia drivers stop responding. The most common resolution is to downgrade the drivers, but when I do that, it gives me a bsod. Please please help. I don't want to resort back to console gaming, I'm getting way to many errors and I just want it resolved.

 

[zaakery]

If a card is damaged(not fully broken) it may still appear to work, but fail at random times. Damage to the card or the board may cause this issue.

It is very hard to be sure without another system to test on.

From time to time things can get messed up on Windows, but I have never had this from simply removing a card. I have swapped cards on my system many times for testing other cards and configurations without any issues(even going back and froth from Nvidia to AMD).

It's the drivers crashing, not the card. The older driver works perfectly, other than a frequent bsod, and the updated driver DOESNT bsod, but frequently crashes and recovers.

 

[nukemaster]

Drivers crash when hardware is failing as well(ask my GTX 670 that had to be replaced. It would driver crash in almost every game and then the game needed to be restarted most of the time, then it would crash again later.).

In the case that the driver can not recover you get the blue screen error(Driver recovery was made a part of Vista[and all since] to reduce driver related blue screens. AMD had GPU/VPU recover even back in the XP days for the exact same reason. Crash the game not the system). In fact all blue screen errors are a result of Windows not being able to recover from one type of error or another(sometimes bad drivers, other times failing/misconfigured hardware).

 

[zaakery]

Drivers crash when hardware is failing as well(ask my GTX 670 that had to be replaced. It would driver crash in almost every game and then the game needed to be restarted most of the time, then it would crash again later.).

In the case that the driver can not recover you get the blue screen error(Driver recovery was made a part of Vista[and all since] to reduce driver related blue screens. AMD had GPU/VPU recover even back in the XP days for the exact same reason. Crash the game not the system). In fact all blue screen errors are a result of Windows not being able to recover from one type of error or another(sometimes bad drivers, other times failing/misconfigured hardware).

Everything always has to have an issue.. I don't think I've ever had a time where there were no bugs to fix with my system. Can these issues happen from the GPU not being put in completely right? Or is it only if its damaged

 

[nukemaster]

You can try to re-insert the video card. Worst I saw with a not fully seated card was on running at X1 and not X16.

You have to bug someone with another system to test the card to be 100% sure.

With the 1000's of combinations of parts, things do not always go smooth. Even un related things can cause issues.

I mean I had the Audigy control panel causing explorer to micro freeze(it was like a short pause, some people may not even notice or care about it.) because they drivers did not work right with multi core cpu. A quick affinity mask to make the program(it was the mixer software that had the issue) no longer see or use the extra cores fixed it up. I do not think even creative ever released a bit. It was LOTS of trial and error to link sound card to explorer issues.

 

[zaakery]

You can try to re-insert the video card. Worst I saw with a not fully seated card was on running at X1 and not X16.

You have to bug someone with another system to test the card to be 100% sure.

With the 1000's of combinations of parts, things do not always go smooth. Even un related things can cause issues.

I mean I had the Audigy control panel causing explorer to micro freeze(it was like a short pause, some people may not even notice or care about it.) because they drivers did not work right with multi core cpu. A quick affinity mask to make the program(it was the mixer software that had the issue) no longer see or use the extra cores fixed it up. I do not think even creative ever released a bit. It was LOTS of trial and error to link sound card to explorer issues.

I'm currently using the combination of parts that the computer itself came with, I can try reinserting though, I'm pretty confident that it's in the right slot.