....wait, thats a thing? I thought you had to speficially download the driver for said specific graphics card. I had no idea they was cross driver compatibility. But it would still be better to have the latest most recent driver from when you search the gpu in nvidia drivers right?
And here's the newest driver there is....
BOTH drivers support the GTX 970. Which is what I told you, long ago.
The point here is... you don't NEED to worry about the driver right away.
You can CLONE to the SSD, then take out the 1TB drive, and put the 2TB drive in, and you'll be up and running in 30 minutes or less.
Then...w/e you have the time, you can use DDU to uninstall the 391.xx driver and update to the new one.
Ohhh, sorry, I always thought you needed to get specific drivers for each gpu, i didn't know they all more or less worked for another. Learn't something new today
They don't work for ALL. Like you'll notice the new driver won't work on a GTX 580, and even the old driver won't work on say a... GTX 280.
But they work on a large range.
Vid card drivers are very forgiving. Motherboard drivers... not so much.
Update:
Products :: GeForce<sup>(R)</sup> GTX 970
Is the exact model of the card.
So I installed my gpu and when I booted up I booted with a normal post as usual, then when windows logo was loading I got a little bar of a whiteish colourful kinda glitchy looking bar up top, so I freaked out and restarted. Then it proceeded with a post code indicating a gpu error (the 3 beep one), im familiar with this beep as I had memory issues before and memory and gpu are the same post code.
At this point my heart dropped and I wanted to cry. Anyways I persisted and booted up again, all sweet, windows loaded up but this time it was as though I installed windows for the first time and the graphics drivers had not been installed yet. That safe mode look.
I went into device manager and it was on microsoft default graphics, no gtx 970, cpuid had no gpu either. I was like.....either I killed the card somehow dusting it (believe me their was enough dust to build another gpu with) even though I made sure to earth myself and everything.
I then saw "downloading NVIDIA - Display - 27.21.14.5671" but it was stuck on %10, since I was freaked out and frantic I had given up and decided to restart again because I just went with the fact I killed the card somehow.
Once I had restarted I saw "install NVIDIA - Display - 27.21.14.5671" then after a little while my resolution came back and I'm currently typing this, task manager shows gtx 970 and so does CPUID.
Can someone please give me a hug and some comfort information, what on earth just happened. I want to say my drivers for the GTX 570 weren't sufficient to run the card on first install.
Thank you
Update : When I scroll up and down on the browser it sort of glitches. A little bar matching the colour of the display I'm on. After a few updates and restarts that scroll up and down glitch seems to have ceased.
GPU Idle on 40c at 976 rpm.
I put on a game Team Fight Tactics, same graphics as league of legends, no issues as of yet.
at 45% load its 70c at 2000rpm
Update 2: Restarted windows after a update, it hang with the dotted circles not loading, so i freaked and restarted again, windows updates finished and im back on desktop.
Update 3: I went to click on GPU Z, my pc restarted the moment that pop up/notification came up to confirm.
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I honestly feel like a clean install might be neccesary, anybody please give me some feedback on my progress <3 I'm freaking out.
Last update: Screen froze again while I had a game running in the background for about an hour maybe, had to restart. Computer posted with 3 beeps. Restarted again, computer posted fine then as I logged into windows (where you put in your password) It froze on that loading screen.
:'(
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So I reinstalled Windows and managed to get to the desktop, install the drivers successfully but in between restarts for the Windows install I'd get the beep code. Anyone can help with this? Sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't.
@Ghot
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Do it just like this...
DDU Instructions - Nvidia
1. Get this program, here: Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU) | Wagnardsoft ...get the latest version, and save it to your desktop.
2. Get the Standard/Game Ready vid card driver here, use the Manual Search: Advanced Driver Search | NVIDIA ...save this to your desktop.
Unhook the internet completely.
3. Reboot into Safe Mode and run DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) choose the "Highly Recommend Option", and just do what it tells you.
4. After it's done, reboot to normal mode, then just double click the Nvidia driver to install. If it want's to reboot, let it.
Rehook the internet.
Hey @Ghot!
Thanks for the reply, I went ahead and formatted with my internet turned off. Installed the latest drivers from my USB and all seems to be going very well so far...however....it's also very odd.
The only hiccups I had where when windows installation restarted as part of its installation, I would get the 3 beeps post code. But the strangest part is, when it did boot fine on the single beep (which is more often then not) everything runs perfectly, no freezing, I ran heaven benchmarks, all sweet. So other then the random beep code everything else is running fine. I did some extensive research and narrowed it down to a few things that could be triggering the 3 beeps.
1: BIOS boot options (legacy?)
2: I had a DVI cable plugged into the GPU which had a HDMI on the other end plugged into the monitor, I since changed this to HDMI to HDMI. I read somewhere with someone else saying it fixed the beep for them on the same card, but I'm not sure if a monitor cable could cause post issues.
3: PCIE Express slot.
4: Updating GPU BIOS (this is scary and risky).
5: GPU Power cables, they where exactly the same pins for my old gpu, so I didn't need to add or change anything, but I did swap from left to right, even though they are the same cables, do certain cables need to be plugged in certain arrangements on the PSU/GPU? I dunno.
That's all I got.
Thank you :)
If anyone else comes across this, it's most likely the fact that newer ggraphics cards need a uefi bios to be more stable. Going to test the card to make sure in its original build. Thanks :)
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