8800GTS + Vista + nvidia driver = no signal

[JeffreyY]

I decided to reseat my heatsink yesterday and when I plugged everything back in and booted up into vista, I saw "no signal" on my ViewSonic vx2025wm. After fiddling around with it all of yesterday I decided to google to see if anybody else has a problem and I found this thread on the nvidia forums and it seems like a pretty widespread problem. Supposedly this happens with any driver newer than 100.65, which I'm going to try tonight when I get home.

Has anybody else experienced this or know of a possible solution other than installing 100.65?

 

[rise]

listen troll, take your fud back under your bridge and die!

























seriously, i've installed tons of drivers on vista 32, from the original cd that came at launch to the current 158's, never had that issue.

 

[JeffreyY]

Well, I was running fine with the current drivers as you are, until yesterday when this problem started happening. I even reinstalled Vista to see if something got screwed up but it did not help. Hopefully it doesn't happen to you, but thanks for the help.

 

[nullpointerus]

I have that monitor and used many drivers in Vista 32 and 64 w/ my old 7900 GTO--never experienced that problem before although I have heard of some general problems with DVI. There's a DVIRecover.zip that I think you need to search for. That's what I'd try. In the meantime you could try using a VGA cable instead of a DVI cable, or stick with the DVI cable but move it to the other DVI port on the video card. The results from this and the 100.65 driver should illuminate the root problem here.

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: JeffreyY
I decided to reseat my heatsink yesterday and when I plugged everything back in and booted up into vista, I saw "no signal" on my ViewSonic vx2025wm. After fiddling around with it all of yesterday I decided to google to see if anybody else has a problem and I found this thread on the nvidia forums and it seems like a pretty widespread problem. Supposedly this happens with any driver newer than 100.65, which I'm going to try tonight when I get home.

Has anybody else experienced this or know of a possible solution other than installing 100.65?

Plug your monitor cable into the other DVI connector. Sounds dumb, but worth a try.

 

[JeffreyY]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Plug your monitor cable into the other DVI connector. Sounds dumb, but worth a try.

I've tried this and it didn't help.

The interesting thing is that I can get the LCD into a usable state by unplugging the DVI cable and plugging it back in, except with this approach the resolution maxes out at 1024x768, and I have to do it every time I start my computer.

The DVIRecover utility sounds interesting and I may give that a try tonight along with the 100.65 driver.

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[Keysplayr]

Have you tried another monitor?
Safe mode to make sure when windows load, the resolution is set to where your LCD supports?

 

[Acanthus]

sounds like the LCD might be set out of range for refresh, try safe mode.

 

[JeffreyY]

Well, I confirmed that it's a driver issue. I installed 100.65 and now it works fine.

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: JeffreyY
Well, I confirmed that it's a driver issue. I installed 100.65 and now it works fine.

If you properly uninstall the drivers and update to current, it should work fine.

Im running the most current drivers with an 8800GTS in 32 bit vista ultimate.