Installing Nvidia 195.62 driver causes BSOD on boot

[Solmyr]

After installing the latest Nvidia driver for my GeForce 8800GT my Windows Ultimate 64-bit crashes to bluescreen on booting, the only way to start it then is in safe mode. Removing the drivers does not help, forcing me to reinstall Windows completely. Using the driver that Windows downloads automatically via Windows Update seems to work, but there is often screen tearing and occasional graphic card resets. Anyone else had such problems with this driver?

 

[torrentg]

Install the driver in safe mode, using the device manager. Reboot to normal mode after it's done.

You could also post a crash dump if you'd like to determine what the problem may be. Safe mode + networking is good for that.

 

[Solmyr]

Unfortunately I am unable to install the driver in Device Manager, when I try to update the existing driver Windows says it's up to date already. If I remove it completely then the Display Adapters tab in Device Manager completely disappears and I still cannot install it from there. Installing the driver in safe mode via the installation program now causes a black screen at Windows boot with no way out except to hard-reboot.

 

[torrentg]

Safe mode device manager:

Right click card. Update driver software. Browse my computer. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse. Find and double click on the NV_DISP.inf somewhere in C:\NVIDIA. Hit ok. Hit next.

 

[Solmyr]

Thank you, I've done that. Unfortunately, when I restart in normal mode, I still get a black screen right after "Starting Windows..." message. So the latest driver does not work for me. When reverting to 191.07 (from September) everything works fine.

 

[mushroomboy]

Thank you, I've done that. Unfortunately, when I restart in normal mode, I still get a black screen right after "Starting Windows..." message. So the latest driver does not work for me. When reverting to 191.07 (from September) everything works fine.

Then you might just have to keep the old driver until a new driver comes out. =P Though you could see if they have any beta drivers out yet.

 

[bobtran]

After installing the 195.62 driver I found I had lost the 3D settings, Display settings, and video settings in my NVIDIA control panel. I had to back out to 191.07 to get them back.

 

[richie1913]

I could not get the new nvidia drivers to install without crashing my computer untill I turned of my antivirus,then the drivers installed no problem,turned on anti virus which was KIS 2010,and no problems,everything fine now.

 

[chev65]

As usual, anti virus programs causing more problems then they solve.

 

[scubasteve]

I am using those drivers on an AspireRevo R3610 (second gen Ion-based nettop) running Win 7 Home 64 bit...and no problems at all...so I don't think its an OS-level incompatibility.

 

[torrentg]

As usual, anti virus programs causing more problems then they solve.

Right. I firmly believe in good downloading habits/awareness along with a manual scan every now and then with Malwarebytes instead of an installed antivirus app that starts with Windows.

I happen to really like ZoneAlarm and it has Kaspersky built into it. So I use it just because it's there already. If it wasn't, I'd be running without any antivirus at all.

Most antivirus are worse than most virus.

 

[mushroomboy]

As usual, anti virus programs causing more problems then they solve.

Right. I firmly believe in good downloading habits/awareness along with a manual scan every now and then with Malwarebytes instead of an installed antivirus app that starts with Windows.

I happen to really like ZoneAlarm and it has Kaspersky built into it. So I use it just because it's there already. If it wasn't, I'd be running without any antivirus at all.

Most antivirus are worse than most virus.

I view it as "having sex and then putting on a condom".... You browse the web THEN scan? Really? Do you have sex and THEN protect? It's a very apt example, and people argue that it's better than not having AV but I dissagree.... If you backup properly, with certain data more frequent than others, then re-installing a base image is quicker than any AV scan. =(

 

[guest]

I had the same problem with 191 !! I have Nvidia 8600 GT

 

[persuasive]

I have installed the latest Nvidia 195.62 driver for my Nvidia 8400GS without any issues and no crashes so far...working perfectly!

 

[Solmyr]

Thing is, I didn't have any antivirus program when I first installed 195.62 (right after installing Windows) and it still caused a BSOD. Now I do have AVG Free edition though.

 

[torrentg]

Thing is, I didn't have any antivirus program when I first installed 195.62 (right after installing Windows) and it still caused a BSOD. Now I do have AVG Free edition though.

No!! lol

AVG causes the most bsod and poor performance of all software. You'd be best to uninstall that asap.

Believe me I know. I debug on here and have repaired at least 100 machines in total that had that.

 

[Solmyr]

Well AVG has nothing to do with my problem, since the 195.62 driver crashes my system regardless of whether AVG is there or not.

 

[Solmyr]

Here are examples of minidumps I get when the driver crashes my system.

 

[mushroomboy]

Mine has been crashing lately too, it might be due to an overclock but I didn't have issues until the new drivers, I'm getting a good OC on it too =( I had 660/1700/2000 but now it's down to 635/1635/1880 =( The ram is what really pisses me off, maybe I should see if it's a cooling issue. I haven't cleaned it out since I stopped smoking. =( I don't want too either.

[edit]

Stock is 600/1500/1800

I might re-do the bios and see if just turning down the core and mem a little will help. Shaders gives the most performance, but mem/shaders helps too. Though I like how it's really a 9800GT haha

 

[torrentg]

Here are examples of minidumps I get when the driver crashes my system.

Update this driver to latest:

Rtnic64 Rtnic64.sys Fri May 30 11:12:23 2008