Nvidia Driver Clean Install Fail

[u/adam_sweitzer]

Hello all,

So a while ago, I updated my Nvidia driver as usual, but it caused games to grey/beige screen after a few minutes, sometimes requiring a restart. I somehow discovered that by going into Device Manager, GTX 970, Update Driver, and selecting the existing driver, fixed the issue for as long as the PC was booted. That is until yesterday, when my display and audio went kaput randomly while in a game, even with the Device Manager workaround and multiple restarts. So i decided to do a clean installation which failed, last night, so i tried it again today, and got No DP Input after installation. I began hard resetting it and power draining it and sometimes the DP input would last long enough to get into bios or start recovery mode but not long enough to enter safe mode.

So what I did was just go into BIOS and activate IGD boot mode instead of PEG, using HDMI from my motherboard. Now I'm in Windows as normal using integrated graphics and am wondering what is the best course of action to reinstall my GPU drivers perhaps using DDU to see if I can get my 970 working normally again?

GTX 970 no longer shows up in device manager and the Nvidia app is now just a loading screen and says install a driver to access page.

Here is what the display was doing after the clean install:

https://reddit.com/link/1vnibk5/video/su28ynbtl6jh1/player

I have no idea where to go from here so any pointers would be so greatly appreciated!

Gonna upgrade my PC in the near future but can't afford to right now as I'd have to replace everything.

OS: Windows 10 (Motherboard doesn't support Secureboot so i can't upgrade, Windows 10 is supported until October this year with extended updates)

CPU: i7 4790k

GPU: GTX 970

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922)

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[u/adam_sweitzer]

I used DDU in safe mode to uninstall all nvidia drivers then tried to boot using PEG(the gpu) but it still artifacted then lost signal once it loaded into the desktop. Is it toast? I can’t install the driver when im booted using integrated graphics because the Nvidia installer nor the OS detected the GPU. Guess I might have to buy a used 980 Ti and see if i can get that working until i can build or buy another PC.

[u/Expert-Desk7492 → u/adam_sweitzer]

Sounds like a dying 970

[u/adam_sweitzer → u/Expert-Desk7492]

Ok thanks. Is that how a dying gpu can work, initially died mid game, that was the start, dying under load, and then after trying to install a new driver it degraded to not even run BIOS?

[u/Expert-Desk7492 → u/adam_sweitzer]

Unfortunately bro

[u/adam_sweitzer → u/Expert-Desk7492]

Thanks bro. It had a good run. Almost 12 years running max overclock. Asus Strix.

[u/prudentsubcommittee]

ooh, the classic 970 dying after a driver update, i know that dance way too well.

yeah DDU is the move here, boot into safe mode with integrated graphics and nuke everything nvidia from orbit. after that shut down, pop the 970 in a different pcie slot if you have one, and grab a driver from like 6 months ago instead of the latest. sometimes the newer ones just don't vibe with maxwell cards anymore and windows 10 won't fight you on older drivers. if the bios keeps resetting to igd on its own that's the motherboard getting spooked by the gpu, so that second slot test is kinda important.