Windows causes restart after Nvidia drivers are installed

[MaxFTW]

Hi, Hope you guys can help me as other people on other forums wont.

I Just recently got a EVGA P55 SLI Micro board, Its brand new btw.

Anyway, I have everything all hooked up, Checked over 9001 times and no hardware faults.

I recently reinstalled windows, And you can do pretty much anything like that, The problem rises when you install the Nvidia graphics driver, Now if i install the latest one i cant even get into windows, But if i install the one before that the 285.62, I can get into windows for about 5 seconds and then it reboots.

Its a straight reboot no BSOD to be seen

I have tried as much as i can... Or of what i know about, I took the CMOS battery out, Booted without the sound card, Made sure first boot device is HDD, I dont know where to go next and i have full access to the BIOS and safe mode.

Im really fustrated here, I just cant understand why it dont just boot up.

Specs are as follows:

i5 760 @ stock

EVGA P55 Micro

8GB Gskill RipjawsX

GTX 570 Phantom

Asus Xonar D2X

XFX 850W PSU

1TB WD Caviar black

 

[SieB]

Have you tried the GPU in another system? the only time I have heard of something like this happening is when the card is faulty.

 

[S_I_N]

uninstall all nvidia drivers and try again make sure you have them all uninstalled. sometimes the Nvidia drivers clash with the ones installed by windows during install.

 

[MaxFTW]

I dont have another system to test the graphics card in, Also i have uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled a few times already.

I must point out though that i DID start the system when i didnt format and had that on for a minute or 2 Certainly lasted longer than it currently does with the drivers installed.

 

[SieB]

I can't think of anything that could be causing it to be honest, if it's a fresh install you shouldn't really be having any probs, which is why I thought it might be the card.

 

[MaxFTW]

I personally think its something to do with the bios settings, I just dont know what though.

Ill reinstall windows again, That proccess only takes 30 minutes, Unlikely it will do something but it beats doing nothing.

 

[SieB]

I can't think of anything in the BIOS that could cause it either, there isn't any settings that could cause something like that to happen unless your board has on board graphics, if it does, you need to disable it. The only other thing that could cause it is an unstable overclock, settings wise in the BIOS there isn't anything that affects the GPU.

Plus, if you can run fine before you install the drivers then that points more to it being a prob with the drivers, or the card. If it was the board, you would have probs with or without the drivers installed.

 

[MaxFTW]

Well as its a P55 board it should not have any onboard graphics, I will say though it does have the option for hyperthreading and its enabled even though my CPU dont support it.

 

[MaxFTW]

Fixed it... sorta

The 570 works in the top PCI-e slot, So basically the bottom PCI-E slot is faulty

Dunno what to do now, Cant use the sound card and the sound card is VERY important to me.

 

[SieB]

You should always run your GPU in the top slot, running it from the second can cause problems.