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Video card drivers cause black screen on login

DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
in Help / Advice Forum
I'm running windows 7 64 bit and Vista 64 bit. For some reason whenever I install the video card drivers for my nvidia Geforce 8500GT and restart the screen just stays black. I can hear the windows start up chime and if I press a few buttons I can get a sound or two so I know everything is loaded.

but i've got a black screen.

Safe mode works just fine. Then if I uninstall the drivers and restart the PC runs normally with the default VGA driver.

I've tried the last known good configuration but no luck. I have no idea why this started happening I just turned on the PC one day and it was problem city.

oh and i've tried the newest version of the driver as well as the oldest available on the nvidia site.

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Yet that is exactly what i see here.
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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Okay I changed a setting in BIOS from PEG to PCI and it seems like I may have fixed the problem.

    Yet that is exactly what i see here.
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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Scratch that. Okay so it's still on PCI express. It survived one restart before heading back into familiar territory of the black screen. Any ideas at all?

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.Registered User regular
    Under the following registry key, what is it's type and data:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    There is nothing there. winlogon has Autologonchecl and GPExtensions

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.Registered User regular
    You don't have a key that looks like:

    Shell Reg_sz explorer.exe

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    You don't have a key that looks like:

    Shell Reg_sz explorer.exe

    Oh whoops I was looking for a folder.

    It looks exactly as you say it should.

    (Edit: have to be off. But thanks for anything you come up with i'll try out everything you throw my way tomorrow)

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Okay still dealing with this and lost. If I start up in low resolution 640x480 I have no problem but if I increase the resolution to anything beyond 1024x1028 it's back to the black screen. Windows doesn't even revert to the previous resolution after 15 seconds like it normally would.

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  • matt has a problemmatt has a problem Six pack on a dick Registered User regular
    640x480 and 800x600 are usually no-drivers-necessary resolutions. Once you pass that, for the most part, you're riding on your video card's drivers. Where did you get the drivers from?

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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.Registered User regular
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Okay still dealing with this and lost. If I start up in low resolution 640x480 I have no problem but if I increase the resolution to anything beyond 1024x1028 it's back to the black screen. Windows doesn't even revert to the previous resolution after 15 seconds like it normally would.

    Check for more current drivers?

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    Thomamelas wrote: »
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    Okay still dealing with this and lost. If I start up in low resolution 640x480 I have no problem but if I increase the resolution to anything beyond 1024x1028 it's back to the black screen. Windows doesn't even revert to the previous resolution after 15 seconds like it normally would.

    Check for more current drivers?

    I've tried everything from the oldest drivers I could find in the nvidia archive to their newest beta drivers. Still the same problem no matter what version I install.

    Yet that is exactly what i see here.
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  • ThomamelasThomamelas Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.Registered User regular
    Dumb question but is the refresh rate set correctly?

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    It's set at 60hertz. I've never touched that so i'm not sure what would be proper?

    Yet that is exactly what i see here.
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