Windows 7 After installing an nvidea driver, windows 7 won't start.

misterMatt

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I have an HP Pavillion dv9700, and it has an nvidea GeForce 8600M card, 4 gigs of ram, and an Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.1Ghz. This is a fresh install of windows 7 professional x64, I did a format and everything. If this is not enough information about my setup please let me know, and I will post more information.

Before I installed win 7 I was on vista. I started having some trouble with the infamous 'Display Driver Stopped Responding and Has Recovered' problem, and then the nvlddmkm blue screen. So I decided to say whatever and do a fresh windows 7 install. So far windows 7 works great as long as I don't have nvidea drivers installed.

I have tried installing the 179.48 win7 x64 beta drivers, and the 257.21 win7 x64bit international whql drivers. The 179.48 caused blue screens when starting up, and the 257.21 just would hang when starting up, and not go anywhere.

I am worried that the problem is my physical card, and not the software around it. Do you guys have any ideas as to why I am not able to boot into windows when I have nvidea drivers installed?
 
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Update the system bios to the latest available.

Then have yourself a look at this link for how to run the very latest desktop driver:

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Please post the crash dump if you still have problems as I'll be able to help you sort this by doing that. It very well could be caused by another unrelated driver. Here's how:

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Alright then, here's the plan that should do the trick and have the latest driver running too...

Boot to safe mode + networking. Download and run Driver Sweeper from Guru3d.com and let it remove everything NVIDIA it could find. If you have an NVIDIA chipset, be careful about not letting it remove the chipset drivers. Only video ones.

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Reboot into safe mode + networking to obtain the latest NVIDIA driver that I linked to already from their site. Install, then boot to normal mode.

If this doesn't work (it should), I'll show you how to use the device manager to specifically install from the .inf.
 
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Could you show me how to use the device manager to install from the .inf? I wasn't able to get the first route to work, but I will attempt it a second time while I wait to hear back from you.
 
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Alright. I'd do this in safe mode because with the troubles you've been having, it's the best bet.

Somewhere, most likely C:\NVIDIA, you should have the NVIDIA folder with the latest driver extracted because you already tried to install from it. It extracts to this folder by default.

Alrighy then.

Use Driver Sweeper one more time to get rid of everything like I said, in safe mode. The reboot to safe mode.

Open device manager. Right click on the video card which should probably say "Generic" at this point.

Choose update driver software. Browse my computer. Let me pick... Have disk.... Browse. Now find and double click on the nv_disp.inf that is a few folders deep in C:\NVIDIA.

Hit ok and then hit next and it will install.

When done, boot to normal mode and see how it goes.
 
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