Upgraded video cards. Installed drivers, windows freezes on bootup.

[tyreal42a]

Hello all,

I recently upgrades from 4 gigs of RAM to 8, acquired an SSD and decided my very old GTX 275 wasn't cutting it anymore, so got a Radeon R9 270x.

Things went well and everything seemed fine. I installed the graphics drivers that it recommended, rebooted as it asked, now it just freezes on the windows startup logo with no mouse cursor or icons or anything.

I went into safemode and rolled back the drivers and it boots normally just fine, but not if I install drivers for my graphics card.

I'm not very tech savvy, but does this sound like a driver problem? Any tips on what I can do about it? I can't really use the card if I can't install drivers for it.

 

[dextermat]

Hi,

Please when posting for help, give us at least you computer specs.

1- Are the ram stick same speed, and timing. If not that could be the problem.
2- Do you have a good 500 w psu, your card needs a good 500 w minimum to run properly.

Since your problem occurs after installing the GPU driver, it's probably related to your GPU.

 

[tyreal42a]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the lack of information.

My RAM is all the same speed and timing. I purchased 4 sticks together of the same type.
My power supply is a Ritmo Force860gaming.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3
Intel Core i7 860 2.8

My old video card was a GTX 275 and worked fine with this power supply for years. Everything seems to work fine without the drivers.