A month or so ago under circumstances which I have since forgotten, my computer (with a 8800GTS 640mb) start booting up to a black screen (no signal according to the monitor). The screen would blank out immediately after the the scrolling thing that appears after POST. If I disconnect the DVI cable from the graphics card then reconnect, the screen comes back, but at what looks like 640x480. NV control panel is still there, but it'll only allow me to push res up to 1024x768, and refresh rates can be pushed all the way to 85hz even though my monitor (still recognised correctly) doesn't allow it.
I thought this was a card problem, so I switched it out with a second similar set up, so now I have a 8800GT in my PC. Exact same fucking problem. Okay, the circumstances may have including a Vista patch or NV driver update, I can't remember, but I concluded that the logical step was reinstalling the OS. Now being someone who needs variety, I chose to install XP Pro. I installed XP Pro, loaded up the latest drivers, and lo and behold everything works just fine.
Meanwhile computer 2 that I swapped out the 8800GT from and replaced with the 8800GTS 640 also doesn't work, same thing, black screen, disconnecting cable and reconnect produces same results. I reinstalled the latest NV drivers after replacing the card thinking it could be that, no dice. However having gotten XP Pro working on my primary computer I couldn't give a fuck and left it to the side.
Today, I finally got around to reinstalling Vista because I wanted 4GB available RAM and DX10 back again. So a few hours of back up and a few clicks through the Windows + chipset + LAN + NV drivers later, yep, fucking black screen again. The Vista disc I used was a slip-streamed Ultimate with SP1 and August updates, so I can't help but wonder if it's something to do with the updates between July-August updates. To eliminate the drivers as the issue I uninstalled 173.xx (June drivers, current certified) and installed 169.xx. No goddamned dice.
Right now I'm pretty fucking sick of these electronic shenanigans and am really contemplating just getting an iMac
Anyone have any clue as to why the hell Vista suddenly decided to give me the finger? Take note that prior to this happening I was running Vista Ultimate with latest patches and NV drivers on both computers.
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Video Mod BFG10K.
I thought this was a card problem, so I switched it out with a second similar set up, so now I have a 8800GT in my PC. Exact same fucking problem. Okay, the circumstances may have including a Vista patch or NV driver update, I can't remember, but I concluded that the logical step was reinstalling the OS. Now being someone who needs variety, I chose to install XP Pro. I installed XP Pro, loaded up the latest drivers, and lo and behold everything works just fine.
Meanwhile computer 2 that I swapped out the 8800GT from and replaced with the 8800GTS 640 also doesn't work, same thing, black screen, disconnecting cable and reconnect produces same results. I reinstalled the latest NV drivers after replacing the card thinking it could be that, no dice. However having gotten XP Pro working on my primary computer I couldn't give a fuck and left it to the side.
Today, I finally got around to reinstalling Vista because I wanted 4GB available RAM and DX10 back again. So a few hours of back up and a few clicks through the Windows + chipset + LAN + NV drivers later, yep, fucking black screen again. The Vista disc I used was a slip-streamed Ultimate with SP1 and August updates, so I can't help but wonder if it's something to do with the updates between July-August updates. To eliminate the drivers as the issue I uninstalled 173.xx (June drivers, current certified) and installed 169.xx. No goddamned dice.
Right now I'm pretty fucking sick of these electronic shenanigans and am really contemplating just getting an iMac
Anyone have any clue as to why the hell Vista suddenly decided to give me the finger? Take note that prior to this happening I was running Vista Ultimate with latest patches and NV drivers on both computers.
Thread title edited to remove profanity.
Video Mod BFG10K.