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theburninator92

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I finally got my GPU to work, in the midst of the fun I downloaded the vanilla Nvidia driver for it instead of going to the MSI website and getting the one specifically for it and now it isn't doing jack.... I have gotten it to halfway boot since then but that's about all, even did a system restore to a couple of days ago (before i had it working) and that did nothing... My small tech brain is running out of options here guys. I just wanna play games already!
 
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Desktop video cards are not OEM models. The vendor does not modify the driver set like they do for some mobile platforms. The drivers on MSI's website will just be a vanilla copy of the official NVidia drivers pulled in for convenience.
 
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Download the latest drivers from the Nvidia website:
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Uninstall everything Nvidia using the Add/Remover Programs list in the Windows Control Panel.

Install the latest drivers using the "Custom Installation" option while only installing those components you need, the Graphics Driver and the PhysX software at a minimum (don't install Geforce Experience, Nvidia Update, 3D Vision, HD Audio, etc. unless you need those).

Be sure to select the "Clean Install" option when you get there.

Get playing games, assuming all goes well.
 
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It isn't showing that I have anything from nvidia installed in the utility you said thanks to the system restore, but they are showing up when i do a search in W7, should I just manually un-install em all?
 
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Well, you can start out by just installing the latest drivers. If that doesn't work, then uninstall everything using the method above and start over. If there is nothing Nvidia showing in your Windows Add/Remove programs list, then you have none installed and they are laying dormant somewhere.

Did you previously have a AMD video card installed? If so, then you would uninstall those drivers as well.
 
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This is a new build, that nvidia driver was the only one that have ever been installed on it, I can't go into install a new one because it says that I don't have any compatible hardware.. It was working perfectly until I updated the driver.

 
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Can you go to your Device Manager and see what graphics card is installed/working?
My Computer (right-click) > Properties > Device manager/Hardware (I forgot exactly what it says)

I'm wondering if you have on-board graphics enabled or something like that. Since you have video, something is working. If you have an Nvidia graphics card installed and working, we need to figure out why it's not being recognized.
 
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The intel integrated graphics is what I'm using right now, I have it selected to boot "PEG" first, no matter what I do when I hook the DVI to the GPU I get no response now (other than the fan on it spinning up), a couple of times the light on my monitor flashed from orange (no signal) to blue (signal) and then went immediately back to orange..
 
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