Howdy
I've just done a fresh Install win 7 on my system. Have done this many times. Windows disk first then motherboard disk and then graphic card disk.
All was going well until I rebooted after graphics disk. The system booted up and then got stuck on the welcome screen. It was just stuck there and won't load to the desktop.
I don't know what to do now
Thanks
The driver on your graphics card disk might be outdated and has problems with the latest Windows version/updates.
See if you can start Windows in Safe Mode using the Advanced Boot Options by tapping the F8 key when the PC is booting.
Here is a tutorial for this:
Advanced Boot Options
If you can start Windows in Safe Mode, see if you can do a graphics driver rollback in Device Manager.
Then reboot and see if you can start Windows normally.
EDIT:
I see you marked this thread solved, how did you solve it ?
Last edited by DavidE; 26 Aug 2016 at 05:50. Reason: EDIT
Ok that safe mode roll back worked. Booted to desktop. So my plan now is to install 223!! Windows Updates then install Gforce Experience and get my graphics drivers that way. And then install anti virus
Do u have any other advice?
Cheers
Hi,
Most of use do not install Gforce Experience and mostly only install these items with the custom install
There are essentially 3 updates needed for a clean install of windows that will get you updated through April of 2016
KB3020369 & KB3172605 & KB3125574 all can be downloaded from the M$ catalog using internet explorer
Microsoft Update Catalog
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/...ows-7-and-8-1/
When manually installing updates you need to switch your update settings to Never check for updates and restart the machine first.
Also after restart verify the windows update service is stopped and set to Manual first or it will conflict with the stand alone installer.
Last edited by ThrashZone; 30 Aug 2016 at 05:05.
I haven't used NVidea in years, so i can't comment on Gforce Experience.
I like to manually get drivers from the vendor, and decide if i want the latest before installing.
I always make a system image backup before updating drivers, or any major system changes.
For me Win 10 is worse with drivers, every "W10 new version" installs newer drivers that don't work for me.
I have to force install older drivers that work for me.
Ok I've downloaded and installed two out of those 3 updates manually. Now Windows says it wants to Install 216 updates.
If I'm not to use Gforce experience then how am I going to get up to date graphics drivers?
Hi,
The 3rd update contains many of the 200 updates in it and is more straight forward and faster to install than the separate updates you now show
I have it on my OneDrive too if you can't deal with the catalog for it,
I would do NVidia drivers manually
No one has ever died from being a month or 2 behind in NVidia drivers :)
NVIDIA Drivers - Avoid Problems
Sorry I missed what u wrote about drivers. Hard to read all. Am doing this from Iphone �� I will check out nvidia web site.
How do u do a system image or what ever u called it. I remember a program I used years ago called Acronis drive image. Used that and burnt the whole system to DVDs . I'm bit sick of clean installs especially when I have problems. I think I'll check that out again. Do u know of any other good imaging programs?
Thanks
I used Acronis paid for many years and it always worked reliably for me.
I switched to Macrium Reflect free a year or two ago, and i like it better than Acronis.
Macrium Reflect Free
I would not use DVD's for the backup media.
Saving a backup image to a hard drive (or flash stick) is much faster, easier, and more reliable.
Restoring a system image backup can save you many hours/days rather than doing a clean install.
There are other (free) imaging programs that others recommend such as AOEMI, EaseUs, Paragon, etc.
For the one's i've tested, Macrium is the best for me.
Hi,
yep I too use Macrium Reflect free it's great :)
Too easy to use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQA7NlLvxg8
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