Windows logo, then nothing happens

[Elmfruit]

I reinstalled the OS, downloaded drivers and when I wanted to reboot after the GPU driver the system won't go past the windows logo. The computer is still running and the monitor is still on, but nothing is coming through. And this keeps happening if try to start it. I've had this system for a while, my first thought was that something might be giving up.

Specs:
GeForce GTX 680
i5 3570K
Asus P8 Z77-v pro
Fractal Design Newton r2 650W
8GB ram

 

[junkeymonkey]

will it go in to desktop in safe mode ?? if so then I would feel windows is stuck loading a driver you installed and cant load it up to proceed on to desktop ??

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/start-computer-safe-mode#start-computer-safe-mode=windows-7

 

[Elmfruit]

I have no problems when starting it in safe mode. I'd guess it could be the last installed driver that caused the problem (the graphics card driver)?

 

[junkeymonkey]

I cant ? could be .

in safe mode it loads only standard default built in to windows drivers/start up so its sounds like something you added [driver -start up program]

thing is it could be anthing from the vid card driver to chipset - adobe reader if its part of start up.

mat look in event viewer and see if something pops up in it

may start with the vid -card driver and see whats what and then go down a list if things one at a time until you stumble across it

 

[Elmfruit]

The thing is I just reinstalled windows, installed the mb drivers and everything was fine, then I installed the video drivers and that's when it went downhill. Apart from mb drivers the only other things I've installed are graphics card drivers and Google Chrome.

 

[junkeymonkey]

with that sounds like a good place to start

whats your system specs and all??

 

[Elmfruit]

The system specs are up in the first post, I can't remember much more about the ram tho, more than that they are ddr3. As for the os, it's windows 7.

 

[junkeymonkey]

ok , windows 7

heres what I would do -uninstall the NVidia driver boot back to desktop as normal and reinstall the driver in custom mode - in custom mode deselect everything but the driver and control panel and re try to see if will boot on just that .. if so go install the rest one at a time and boot to see if one of the added NVidia programs is at issue ?? [shadow play gforce experience ,ect...]

heres the drivers footnotes [look over page 27 on don't use device manager to do the drivers ] or if any known issues may be in play

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/359.06/359.06-win10-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf

 

[junkeymonkey]

just wanted to add - try a older driver or 2 to see how they go ?? maybe a unknown issue with the latest not reported yet ?

 

[Elmfruit]

So uninstalling the driver made me able to start the computer without safe mode. It seems to be the driver itself that causes this, as I tried custom-installing three different drivers and all failed. I know I have used at least one of those at some point. I'm not really sure what to do now..

 

[junkeymonkey]

all you can do is test the card in another computer and see if it does the same thing if it cant run the installed driver it maybe something with the card it self or try another NVidia card in your rig to see ?

read last post page 2 ???

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/326993-windows-wont-boot-after-installing-nvidia-gpu-drivers-2.html

 

[Elmfruit]

I will try my card in another rig and see what happens tomorrow. I'll get back and report what happened!

 

[junkeymonkey]

another thing as well if your psu is failing to fully poewe the card ?? I've seen that as well will work with windows default but not with loaded drivers??

hard to say lots can be going on unknown not being there like for any hands on ?? all I can do is give my best guess

post on how it test out

good luck