Good day,
I have been suffering some significant computer issues and am hoping for some major help. Unfortunately I did 4 things together in close close proximity and cannot be positive what the culprit is; however, I have a very strong suspicion it's the new nVidia driver I just installed.
What I did:
1) Installed an aftermarket fan on to my i920. I really don't see how this could be a player but I'm listing it only to be complete. Installation was fine and core temps are idling in low 40s.
2) Installed a bunch of windows updates.
3) Installed newest driver for my GTX 285.
EDIT
4) I installed triple channel DDR3 (3 2G sticks, can't believe I forgot this!)
Symptom: After the installation of the drivers/win updates everything rebooted fine and the computer was good to go. After the next restart, I was able to login, then immediately began getting warning windows that various windows services were no longer functioning and shutting down. When I tried to restart from there, I got to login screen, typed password, and the computer gave me a BSoD. The computer runs just fine in safe mode, but now will consistently BSoD just as the login screen pops up.
Attempted solutions:
1. System restore -- BSoDs when I try to System Restore from Safe Mode.
2. Remove video driver in safe mode -- I restart in normal mode and it starts up; however, I have gigantic text and the computer automatically installs a new driver and prompts for a restart. On the restart computer crashes again.
3. Remove driver in safe mode and install old driver -- driver installer crashes during install midway thru.
Eventually through an unknown (to me) process of iterations, over about a 2 hour span of removing drivers, system restores, BSoDs, and reboots I was able to get my computer back. I reinstalled the nVidia driver (but not the windows updates) and the computer ran normally for about 2 restarts, then I got the exact same problem as before.
So, 2 questions really:
1) Do you think it's my video driver?
2) Any idea how to fix this?
I have been suffering some significant computer issues and am hoping for some major help. Unfortunately I did 4 things together in close close proximity and cannot be positive what the culprit is; however, I have a very strong suspicion it's the new nVidia driver I just installed.
What I did:
1) Installed an aftermarket fan on to my i920. I really don't see how this could be a player but I'm listing it only to be complete. Installation was fine and core temps are idling in low 40s.
2) Installed a bunch of windows updates.
3) Installed newest driver for my GTX 285.
EDIT
4) I installed triple channel DDR3 (3 2G sticks, can't believe I forgot this!)
Symptom: After the installation of the drivers/win updates everything rebooted fine and the computer was good to go. After the next restart, I was able to login, then immediately began getting warning windows that various windows services were no longer functioning and shutting down. When I tried to restart from there, I got to login screen, typed password, and the computer gave me a BSoD. The computer runs just fine in safe mode, but now will consistently BSoD just as the login screen pops up.
Attempted solutions:
1. System restore -- BSoDs when I try to System Restore from Safe Mode.
2. Remove video driver in safe mode -- I restart in normal mode and it starts up; however, I have gigantic text and the computer automatically installs a new driver and prompts for a restart. On the restart computer crashes again.
3. Remove driver in safe mode and install old driver -- driver installer crashes during install midway thru.
Eventually through an unknown (to me) process of iterations, over about a 2 hour span of removing drivers, system restores, BSoDs, and reboots I was able to get my computer back. I reinstalled the nVidia driver (but not the windows updates) and the computer ran normally for about 2 restarts, then I got the exact same problem as before.
So, 2 questions really:
1) Do you think it's my video driver?
2) Any idea how to fix this?
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