Any problems with Nvidia driver updates & Win 7?

CClub wrote on 9/9/2011, 8:55 PM
Earlier this week, I was using Vegas (10e) on Windows 7 OS with no problems. Then about two days ago, I try to start up my PC... I hear power but no boot. I try a few things with no success. After a couple hours, I figure I'm wasting time. So since all my media is on separate drives, I re-install Windows 7 from scratch. It works fine, so I install the Windows updates.

The next thing I add: Nvidia drivers (Nvidia 7800 GTX video card). Back to just power but no boot. Then I try to reinstall Windows 7... now my keyboard isn't even responding and I can't even press DEL to enter BIOS to allow a DVD drive boot.

I'll figure something out, but now I'm nervous about the Nvidia drivers. Has anyone else had this problem with Nvidia drivers and Windows 7? I see a lot of postings on various forums with similar problems as I mention above.

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PeterDuke wrote on 9/9/2011, 9:18 PM
I went back to an earlier driver because the later one did not respond to the screen brightness setting on boot up. If I went into the control panel the setting was as I had last set it, but ignored. A small change to the setting and the brightness responded according to the setting.

However, the earlier driver doesn't remember my screen resolution if I boot up with my KVM not switched to my Win 7 box. (The other was XP.) When I get time I'll experiment to see if I can find a driver version that doesn't have either problem.

I haven't had your problem, which looks scary. What is the driver version number?
CClub wrote on 9/10/2011, 6:28 AM
Good question... I can't access anything right now, but I do have the nvidia website with links to all the drivers versions, and I'll just go to the last version prior to the most recent upgrade and backtrack from there.

A couple years ago I would have been panicked beyond measure with something like this. Now, I don't have a single file on my PC OS hard drive other than the OS itself and any software program installations. Any other file I have on additional internal hard drives. I also have a new Mac MacBook Pro that I have a Boot Camp installation so I can still use anything Windows if needed. So I should be able to just work this out step by step. I was just wondering if anyone else had run into this. I've never had issues with video drivers; guess I was due.
Robert Johnston wrote on 9/10/2011, 6:47 AM
I couldn't even install NVidia's 280.whatever for Windows XP SP3 NVidia Geforce 9400 GT 1 GB RAM. I ended up with a partial install that left things a mess. Had to revert back to a restore point to get out of trouble. The last version I like is 258.96.

Intel Core i7 10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz (to 4.65GHz), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER 8GBytes. Memory 32 GBytes DDR4. Also Intel UHD Graphics 630. Mainboard: Dell Inc. PCI-Express 3.0 (8.0 GT/s) Comet Lake. Bench CPU Multi Thread: 5500.5 per CPU-Z.

Vegas Pro 21.0 (Build 108) with Mocha Vegas

Windows 11 not pro

JJKizak wrote on 9/10/2011, 7:03 AM
In my very limited experience with Win 7 32 bit Pro if Win 7 doesn't like something you have a problem. Vista ATI drivers (HD 4600 video card) will install but will dog you for the rest of your life with periodic blue screens. In my case the blue screeens
loose no data except online log in info. In my Vista computer the 270 driver went in slicker than camel snot on a doorknob.
JJK
warriorking wrote on 9/10/2011, 8:27 AM
Been using the 280's since their release with my GTX295 in windows 7 64Bit, no problems thus far in Vegas......