BSOD after fresh install

[PRLx1967]

Hi,

I had the same problem that others have had with the new nVidia driver causing a BSOD but mine seem to be a little worse off. After uninstalling the nVidia driver the defult windows drivers caused my computer to just black screen after boot. I would see the windows 7 load screen but never the login screen (just black w/ no mouse). So I decided to fresh install by formatting and installing.

After fresh install the same problem happens upon first true boot I see the black screen only. After about 10-30 seconds the BSOD will appear saying it is there due to video card driver timeout. I dont know what i should try next since I am on my 3rd fresh install with the same problem.

I installed XP again and all is fine with the most up to date video driver as well.


Any ideas?

 

[PRLx1967]

Another update, I was wrong in saying that windows 7 ever fully installed, it will go to a black screen now before instalation is complete...

 

[PRLx1967]

Bump for help please....

 

[fishnbanjo]

I'd start with seeing if your BIOS and video have updates assuming you ran the Windows 7 Adviser prior to installing Windows 7, if not then please do it will give a detailed report on any actions you will need to take to install W7 successfully.

 

[PRLx1967]

Yes, bios is updates. I ran W7 since the launch just fine. It want until nvidia's latest driver update did this problem happen. Even the previous driver is doing the same thing to the card now. I even went back to drivers dated to 2009 with no luck. It is like a car that runs fine until you press the gas. I al lead to belive that the card is somehow shot....donno what the next step is other than swap vid cards. ....any more ideas?

 

[fishnbanjo]

Well often when you load a driver that is problematic you run the issue of parts of it remaining even when you revert back. I suggest you unistall the driver and the card in Control Panel which will put you back to 800x600 res like being in SAFE Mode. Download CCleaner and Drivesweeper and remove anything to do with the video card. Shut down and cold boot the PC which will load Microsoft drivers. If you have the original drivers you had donloaded previously which worked go to Control Panel and Display Adapter and Update Driver pointing it to where the drivers are, if you don't have them download the version that worked prior to updating and having your problem, this should get you back to where you were prior to having issues.

 

[PRLx1967]

Well often when you load a driver that is problematic you run the issue of parts of it remaining even when you revert back. I suggest you unistall the driver and the card in Control Panel which will put you back to 800x600 res like being in SAFE Mode. Download CCleaner and Drivesweeper and remove anything to do with the video card. Shut down and cold boot the PC which will load Microsoft drivers. If you have the original drivers you had donloaded previously which worked go to Control Panel and Display Adapter and Update Driver pointing it to where the drivers are, if you don't have them download the version that worked prior to updating and having your problem, this should get you back to where you were prior to having issues.

I dont think this would do much since it was happening off a fresh format and install of W7 as well. Do you still think I should get CC and Dsweep?