[Nebastion]

Sup all, I got me a GTX260, and i just installed it,
Only my pc will only boot in safe mode now, and the screen is all dotty from boot up, Im confusled to say the least

Forethanks

Neb,

[etaf]

whats the makeand model of the PC you have installed in
Have you installed all the drivers that came with the card

[Nebastion]

I have this Mobo, and an i7 chip....

Thanks 4 ur help.

[Nebastion]

yeah i installed em. they wer on the disc, but wen i booted up the 1st time windows started doin it itself, and then it saiid restart so i did and now i cant log bak into wiindows. only in safe mode, and when i tried to install the drivers from the disc there, it showed a message about a "stereo server not uninstalled".......

[etaf]

what windows version XP vista

if you go into device manager
display adapters
anything there
if it is you could try updating andre-installing the drivers

[Nebastion]

64 bit, i tried updating them, uninstalled and updated, and theres no <!> mark by the video adapter.....

Im upset.

[etaf]

Yep, I'm sure your upset.

is this the driver you have installed
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_wi...1.07_whql.html

64 bit vista driver

seems to be a problem on 64bit with physx

[Nebastion]

Im not sure of the driver, it came in the box.

Is there anywhere else i can get the driver? like do people make spurius drivers or anything?

Not much left to do now but panic and blame others.
Save my sanity. please.

Neb.

[Nebastion]

Would puttin my old 9400GT bak in and uninstall its drivers and then swap it again with the gtx 260 do anything in your opinion?

[etaf]

No you need the correct drivers

I would do this
download those drivers from the link I gave you for 64bit vista (Thats what you have correct)
put them on the desktop

in safe
mode

Device Manager.
(+) sign next to Display Adapters.
Double click on the Graphics Card
Graphics Properties Page,
select driver and click on Uninstall to uninstall the Graphics Drivers.

now reboot into safe mode - should use a default VGA graphics driver
then install the new drivers

[Nebastion]

Ok coo im gonna do that but while im doing it, id like to know why do you think the dotty screen is happenin right from startup? like before vista64 even starts to load. ??

[etaf]

Not sure... could be a faulty graphics card ......
But we need to make sure all the correct drivers are installed

If that does not work
you may have to put your old card back and re-install those drivers ... just to make sure everything is working OK.
then get onto nvadia support, where did you buy the card - you may need to exchange for a newone

[Nebastion]

Nope its not working, i got the card from ebay......

I did what you said and im able to boot normally but its still all Dotty, its not the reslult i was expecting. scince this iv had two dll file notices. im gonna put in my old 9400, and send the Ebayer a strongly worded Email.

thank you for your time and effort, much appreciated,
Regards
Neb.

[etaf]

OK
you installed the 64bit driver from the site i linked to correct and did that install correctly

anyway lets see if you original graphics card works OK

[Nebastion]

Yup the one you linked to me.

My old 9400Gt workin Perfectly, no dots no lines,

Probably shouldnt buy off Ebay huh?