Having problems with graphics card in windows 7 help

hey guys please help
ive installed windows 7 in c drive i deleted the hard drive first before i installed it. now my mouse keeps freezing every so often but when i press a button it refreshes for a few seconds before freezing again ive updated as much as i can i put in a old graphics card and windows seemed to run a little better although not by much i have a navidia 9800gtx+ gigabyte and have no idea what to do i have spent lots of hours looking for a solution on threads to this problem but to no avail if anyone could help it would be much appreciated.

as well i downloaded from nvdia the supposed update for win7 and has made my computer not even start up properly it just makes a high pitched noise keeps running but doesnt show anything on the screen have no idea whats going on please help

Wicker said:

hey guys please help
ive installed windows 7 in c drive i deleted the hard drive first before i installed it. now my mouse keeps freezing every so often but when i press a button it refreshes for a few seconds before freezing again ive updated as much as i can i put in a old graphics card and windows seemed to run a little better although not by much i have a navidia 9800gtx+ gigabyte and have no idea what to do i have spent lots of hours looking for a solution on threads to this problem but to no avail if anyone could help it would be much appreciated.

Wicker

Hi and welcome to sevenforums

Could you do a couple of things for us

First go into device manager (type device manager in search) and see if there are any unknown drivers (yellow triangle on them). If so those need to have their drivers updated.

Second could you go into event viewer (yep type event viewer in search) and see if there are any errors in the "app" tab relating to this

If there are unknown devices, or errors could you use the built in snipping tool to take screenshots and upload them to us using the attachment (shaped like a paperclip) Icon in your reply

Thanks\

Ken

ok um im just reinstalled windows 7 im talking to u from my laptop and i had to put in my old graphics card as with my new one the computer doesnt even show a screen with the old one it boots and says that there was an error and i have to reinstall windows again when installing windows will it make a difference which graphics card i have in and each time i have tried to install it a black screen occurs when it has done those percentages installed so i have pressed the power button for 10 sec to turn it off then on again as the screen stays black i think forever as once i let it run for a while any clues in that respect thanks for a quick reply

Wicker said:

ok um im just reinstalled windows 7 im talking to u from my laptop and i had to put in my old graphics card as with my new one the computer doesnt even show a screen with the old one it boots and says that there was an error and i have to reinstall windows again when installing windows will it make a difference which graphics card i have in and each time i have tried to install it a black screen occurs when it has done those percentages installed so i have pressed the power button for 10 sec to turn it off then on again as the screen stays black i think forever as once i let it run for a while any clues in that respect thanks for a quick reply

Ok do you have a win 7 dvd? if so boot from it. decide which graphics card you want to use and stay with it.

Ken

Hello Wicker,

When updating your drivers, the screen flicker is normal, but it shouldn't last any more then 5-10 seconds.

If you could, could you go into device manager and check if there are any Yellow Indications next to your drivers, and take a screenshot?

DJ

Hi and welcome to seven forums

I asked him to do that already.

Ken

ok thanks guys for helping me out

im currently installing windows 7 from a dvd again. Ive got my good grapics card in there now after it goes through the installation process the screen goes black but doesnt restart itself is that normal and should i restart manually? now ive found after that, the computer with my new graphics card can only get up to the bit where those different colour balls make up the windows logo then the screen goes black and thats it, although safe mode does work though and if i put in my old graphics card it works normally though the mouse freezing still occurs once i have reinstalled it i dont think safe mode will allow me to use the ethernet ports so should i put the old graphics card in there so i can come online with the desktop to do that stuff u said

um yeah i dont understand y this is but i only have one 2gb ram in there i think my motherboard is really stupid as it doesnt let me have more then 2gb of ram and it doesnt work right anymore like i put a 1 gb ram in there and it doesnt work even though thats what i originally had in my computer so i dont know whats going on im not overcloking either

cheers for the help