Nvidia Graphics Card causes screen to freeze.

[Riff88]

Hi,

My CPU is an Intel Celeron 430 / 1.85GHz. I have Windows 7 - 32 bit. Ram is 3GB - Dual DDR2 - 800. My Motherboard is an ECS Elitegroup FSB 1333 / G3IT-M7

I recently installed a PCI express Nvidia Gforce 210 Graphics card (DDR3) on my PC. I also installed its driver which I got from the Nvidia website.

Ever since the instillation my screen keeps freezing, no matter if I work on MS Word or run my antivirus. When the screen freezes the only way to shut the PC down is by force.

I don’t really need the graphics card since I don’t do gaming or watch many movies, but a friend insisted that we put it in. So I went to Programs and Features and tried to uninstall the drivers, but it told me that I cannot uninstall because “other installations” need to finish.

When I press shutdown, it tells me there are five updates waiting to be installed and that I must not turn off my PC. So I leave it on. It’s been 14 hours and it is still installing Update 1 of 5.

Yesterday I installed 12 Windows Updates and they all updated and installed. I did not install any new updates, so I don’t know where they are coming from.

I don’t want the graphics card and its drivers, if it’s gonna cause problems I just do very basic work on the PC. How do uninstall all of it?

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[yowanvista]

Use DDU to purge the current driver before reinstalling the latest Nvidia drivers (342.xx). If that driver version has the issues, downgrade to a pre-341 driver.

Also, why did you buy such an ancient card? It's a discontinued EOL GPU which is no longer supported by Nvidia. I have seen a number of people complaining about the stability of the legacy drivers on the GeForce forums but no new drivers are planned for pre-Geforce 400 series.

 

[Riff88]

Use DDU to purge the current driver before reinstalling the latest Nvidia drivers (342.xx). If that driver version has the issues, downgrade to a pre-341 driver.

Also, why did you buy such an ancient card? It's a discontinued EOL GPU which is no longer supported by Nvidia. I have seen a number of people complaining about the stability of the legacy drivers on the GeForce forums but no new drivers are planned for pre-Geforce 400 series.

Thank you for the advice.I didn't buy it, a friend had a spare one, and had suggested we put it in. I don't really need it, I realize that now.