- May 7, 2008
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I hope that someone can offer some help here as I am truly running out of ideas.
This is what happened. I was installing Race Driver Grid and also the latest NVidia Driver 177.41. The installation of the driver hanged midway (my fault I guess for running the Race Driver:GRID installation at the same time) so I just rebooted the machine manually. After reboot everything was normal and I could boot into Windows fine.
I then fired up GRID and it loaded fine although I noticed some horizontal distortion during the intro screen. I was in the video options menu tweaking stuff and then suddenly my screen blacked out. So I rebooted the machine again (hard reboot). I noticed horizontal dotted lines during the black "Loading Windows" screen which looks like this:
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/4769/1000663ql5.jpg
And after that it won't even boot into the User logon screen, it looked like this when it went into that screen :
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/6800/1000665mt3.jpg
I tried uninstalling the drivers and it booted into Windows fine, although I noticed the horizontal dots in the BIOS screen and also in the loading Windows screen.
I did a quick format and reinstall Windows but still getting the same error. I am now trying to do a full format. This is how is looks just after installing the drivers again :
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/4568/1000660lj3.jpg
I really hope its not a hardware issue as I just got this card recently
Thanks for any help that you can offer.
This is what happened. I was installing Race Driver Grid and also the latest NVidia Driver 177.41. The installation of the driver hanged midway (my fault I guess for running the Race Driver:GRID installation at the same time) so I just rebooted the machine manually. After reboot everything was normal and I could boot into Windows fine.
I then fired up GRID and it loaded fine although I noticed some horizontal distortion during the intro screen. I was in the video options menu tweaking stuff and then suddenly my screen blacked out. So I rebooted the machine again (hard reboot). I noticed horizontal dotted lines during the black "Loading Windows" screen which looks like this:
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/4769/1000663ql5.jpg
And after that it won't even boot into the User logon screen, it looked like this when it went into that screen :
http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/6800/1000665mt3.jpg
I tried uninstalling the drivers and it booted into Windows fine, although I noticed the horizontal dots in the BIOS screen and also in the loading Windows screen.
I did a quick format and reinstall Windows but still getting the same error. I am now trying to do a full format. This is how is looks just after installing the drivers again :
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/4568/1000660lj3.jpg
I really hope its not a hardware issue as I just got this card recently
Thanks for any help that you can offer.