re: Windows 7 graphics card error
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Harry Clark
(495 messages posted)
Did you uninstall the drivers and any software utilities for the 8800 then set it
to standard VGA 640 x 480 mode before you replaced it with the 9800 ?
Cheers HC
On Friday, July 31, 2009 at 12:14 am, Spiderbrainsuk wrote:
>I got Windows 7 up and running ok a few days ago using a Nvidia 8800gts graphics
>card but then I changed to an Asus Nvidia 9800 gt in order to be hdcp compliant.
>As soon as I applied the latest Nvidia driver Win 7 never got past the boot screen
>I realised that the same driver gave me an error in Vista so I tried the cd driver
>and that worked great.
>I had a go at installing Win7 again with the cd driver but the same problem happens
>every time. The pc restarts while installing Win 7 and shows the colourful logo
but
>goes into a black screen and appears to hang with nothing on the screen but the
logo
>on the bottom right hand corner. I've tried going into safe mode and it tries to
>carry on with setting up with Windows 7 but then tells me installation cannot be
>completed in safe mode.
>I had the latest graphics driver running ok in Windows 7 with my 8800 gts, is my
>problem due to a bad graphics card? I have Windows 7 preordered, I would really
like
>to be able to get it up and running.
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