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It's generally better to clean out/uninstall the old drivers before removing the old video card, then reboot into safe mode and run Driver Cleaner.to remove any vestiges of the old.

Then shut down, remove old card, install new card, boot up and install new graphics drivers.


As to what you should do...try booting into safe mode, and Driver Cleaner graphics drivers from both ATI and Nvidia, then boot up and install whatever Nvidia drivers you like.

 
I had a similar thing happen with my 6800 along time ago. Mine was bad driver removal. Try running driver cleaner again and check folders to see if there is any ati drivers left, also check add/remove programs for ati, and remove the nvidia drivers, reboot then reinstall. Guildwars did the same thing.
 
I think it's your driver version. I recently installed series 90 driver for my 6600GT and immediately started experiencing such problems (black screen upon exit from GuildWars was a regularity). I reverted to series 80 driver and everything was back to normal.
 
(EDIT ~> working fine in normal use now, with an older driver set.)

I have (almost) the same GPU in an old box here that I just pulled a Ti-500 out of, on which I had 32-Bit Full Color and resolutions up into the 19xx by 16xx range. It runs Win98, and the newest for that I found was 81.98. It's a BFG 6600 OC, 256 MB, and if once upon a time I had a BFG CD with it, I don't have that now.

It want(ed) to stay at a default of 16 "colors" and 640 by 480. I could change the Ti-500 settings on the fly, no problem. Not this weeny at first. It want(ed) to restart, and (would) come back with a black screen as soon as Windows was well started. All I could get at first was a Safe Mode placebo. I think that the Ti-500 was running a 77.xx driver.

The properties option did not include 32-Bit Color, and the resolution maxed out at 1024 by 768 (except that I can't get it to work yet).

I had an old version of DC on there, and had it do a cleanup. I did run into a complaint about Installshield needing an update on one attempt to use a CD (eVGA's) with this (BFG) graphic card. I don't recall if I'd remembered to disable my AVG that time or not.

With the latest version of Driver Clean, and a rollback to the 77.xx ForceWare I'd upgraded the GF3 Ti-500 to, all now looks fine in Windows, Sea Monkey, and Mozilla Thunderbird -- but it's the first time in many, many moons that a hardware swap gave me this much of a hassle!

Thanks for being a sounding board anyway, folks!
 
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