Vista Tutorial - Generic drivers work but proper ones wont. Black screen after reboot.

FULL SYTEM SPECS(minus CPU and GFX card upgrades):
Acer M1100 U1302A Desktops specs

Short Spec list(with upgrades)

Motherboard: Acer F690GVM
Processor: AMD athlon windsor 6000+
Ram: 5gb DDR2
Gfx Card: Nvidia 8600GT 512mb pci-e

I just upgraded my fully operational vista 32bit to home premium 64bit. Everything is working in vista 64bit up untill I install my gfx card drivers. Vista will run perfectly on the generic drivers windows assigns to my card. When I successfully install the proper drivers from nvidia's website and reboot, windows will load the starting bar up then goto a black screen that I cannot do anything at. The system hangs up on me with no error message or any indication of problem.

I'm currently running in safemode right now and have treid reinstalling the drivers several times and each time they say working properly but unfortunatly I cannot get past a black screen on startup unless i uninstall nvidia drivers and let windows assign the generic drivers to the card.

Any help would be very apreciated.

Thanks a lot,
Ryan.

Hi and welcome to Vista Forums!
I have two Nvidia 8600 GTS (256 MB) and with the latest nvidia drivers for x64 I have no problems, all working fine, also SLI.
Are you sure you install the correct driver?

Im positive, I've also tried several other older drivers from the nvidia site.

I've been looking on google constantly and several other have this issue where the screen will go black but the OS will still load in background but no one has solved there issue thus far it seems.

Very weird since everything works perfectly on my 32bit vista partition. I'm using same driver set (but 64bit ofcourse).

Thanks for taking a look!
Ryan

Nvidia has released a new driver yesterday (186.18). Give it a try

I have 8500GT and its been working great but when Installed their newest release I had the same problem. I rolled back to previous Nvidia driver everything was back to normal. My system is 64 bit Vista. Try the driver one step back from their newest release. If it doesn't work no harm done but, maybe it will. Good Luck
This is mine:

UPDATE:

Best google search I've found was somone with the same issue that solved there problem but forgot to state what drivers they used.

» 8600 GT XXX Driver problem

I've tried nvidias newest witch is 186.18,then 185.85, then 175.19 and all achieve same result. A black screen after vista loading bar. I know the OS is active in the background because of my G11 keyboard and activity light on desktop tower.

Thanks again.

I don't know the relese number. I've never understood why the driver number in device manager is different than the one you download.

Witch set is that marshall?

I use 185.85 with no problems

hmm, alright...I've tried serveral more driver sets and still same issue unfortunatly.