Hi All, I recently built my new gaming pc All the hardware is fine (I had it tested before le...

[G+_Darryl Gibbs]

Hi All,

 

I recently built my new gaming pc.  All the hardware is fine (I had it tested before leaving the retailer), but I'm having a critical issue.  EVERYTIME I install the drivers for my Gigabyte Nvidia GTX770, I am met with a black screen, and the monitor says there is no connection.  I've tried this on Windows 7 and 8.1, with and without Windows updates, with and without all the PC drivers and every combination inbetween.  Googling tells me that this is a well known problem, but no one really has a fix.  One or two workarounds have been made but nothing concrete.  My rig is as below:

 

Intel Core i5 4670K - 3.40GHz Quad Core

Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H mobo (updated BIOS to F5, latest) 

Gigabyte Nvidia GTX770 (GV-N770OC-2GD)

Corsair Vengeance Pro 8GB DDR3-1600MHz (CMY8GX3M2A1600C9)

WD 1TB HDD

 

PLEASE HELP!!!

[G+_Travis Hershberger]

Are you trying to use the driver disc that came with the video card?  If downloading drivers try the generic NVIDIA driver and the Gigabyte driver.  If none of them work, then you have a bad card and need to replace it.

[G+_Darryl Gibbs]

Well in the end, it turned put to be the screen. For some reason it couldn't handle the card with drivers.. Weird. Well technically it's a old 720p low end TV.. Getting a proper screen tomorrow!

[G+_Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ]

Great bit of TS Daryl! --- Were you using HDMI? I'm wondering if it was screwing with HDCP... it shouldn't because you weren't playing any copyrighted content, but still... interesting.

[G+_Darryl Gibbs]

Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ? I was using a HDMI v1.3 cable. The TV for some reason also is not receiving the audio signal. Maybe an old technology in there?

[G+_Daniel Armstrong]

Darryl Gibbs? HDMI cables aren't rated by HDMI version, they are rated by speed, either standard or high. The HDMI version is the data that is sent over the cable, not the cable itself. Think of HDMI version like an OS version, there is no such thing as a Windows 98 hard drive, but there is a drive small enough that 98 would fit while 7 wouldn't.

 

It's the same with HDMI cables, a standard speed cable might not be able to carry newer version content, bit depths, and resolutions but that doesn't make it a specific version.

[G+_Daniel Armstrong]

And I've had this issue before too of the computer using a resolution unsupported by the display. I'd be working on a customer's PC system unit and have it attached to my monitor, at the time either a Dell branded Sony Trinitron P990 or a Viewsonic flat screen (not flat panel) both 19" CRTs.

 

I'd reinstall the OS and drivers, get it all fixed up and returned only to have their monitor go black as soon as the OS loaded the drivers. The problem: I was using a mode that their monitor didn't support, ususlly IIRC 1280x960 @ 85Hz, and forgot to set it back to something basic like 800x600 @ 60Hz. EDID should have handled it for me but often enough didn't.

[G+_Darryl Gibbs]

Daniel Armstrong thanks for that.  I guess when the driver kicked in, it set the res all the way up to 1920x1080, when the monitor I was using at the time was max 1440x900.

 

Thankfull I now have a sparkly new 1080p monitor so no issues.

 

having said all of that, there are a frightening amount of people who have had some serious issues with GTX cards in the last year and blacking out in numerous instances.. I thought I was one.  Thankfully I'm not :)