NVIDIA Driver Problems

[Dial]

I'm having some issues with my NVIDIA graphics card.

I have the GeForce GT 640 card, and was notified of an upgrade recently with the driver. I installed it, and then my computer crashed and I was welcomed with the blue screen of death, first giving me an error saying Microsoft boot missing, and then went on to be more generic such as system error, and other problems showing the location of my installation for NVIDIA.

I have since reformatted three times, a completely fresh installation of Windows 8.1, and tried to install the driver, and continue getting the error. I've even tried the version prior to it, to no avail.

I lost all of my files and data from this because I'm a fucking idiot and only back up my current projects, and didn't care enough to recover them (just wiped everything for a fresh start).

 

[Blupig]

You bumsicle

Graphics card is probably gone to shit now. Faulty driver installs, especially for something like a graphics card, can full-on fry the device. A graphics card is almost like a mini-computer unto itself - it has its own processor, its own ram, and its own on-board BIOS. You likely shittered the BIOS.

Another issue could be that there is a physical problem with the card. Check for burst capacitors, disconnected or partially disconnected components, etc.

To keep using your machine, you'll want to boot into your mobo's BIOS and switch the video settings to using onboard graphics. If you've got an old shit card you can test your PCIe slots with, I'd do that too since graphics card issues are known to potentially fry motherboard components as well. Who knows, maybe the problem isn't with your graphics card at all, but your motherboard.

Anyway I think das it bb boy

 

[3ugene]

Why not just use the old version of the driver you were before? or use the generic drivers that come with windows until a newer version has come out.

 

[Blupig]

Why not just use the old version of the driver you were before? or use the generic drivers that come with windows until a newer version has come out.

"I've even tried the version prior to it, to no avail."

 

[3ugene]

"I've even tried the version prior to it, to no avail."

Oops mb, skim read it. Still, just use the generic drivers.

 

[SASRT8]

Even if he bricked the BIOS, which I've never heard of happening in any way other than when actually flashng the vBIOS...its not hard to blind flash a card with a fresh vbios with pretty high success rate.

Drivers wont brick the card either. I would venture to say that your card has simply failed.