Any new fix for nvidia drivers and windows 8?

[boneycat]

Just did a clean install of Win8 on a new hd. Windows has drivers for everything, including the vid card. I went ahead and installed the lastest drivers from nvidia (310.xx). Installed no problem and rebooted. I get the win8 logo and then a black screen that occasionally flashes. Finally booted into safe mode and did a system restore. I see lots of people complaining about this last month, but no real solutions at that time. Anything fixed about this now that it's mid Feb? Vid card worked fine under win7.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Are you using windows update to get your driver?

Have you tried the latest 313.96?

I've been using Windows 8 since the dev preview and I haven't had any issues like you describe.

You might also want to try running driver sweeper in safe mode then using the latest beta driver off the GeForce website.

 

[thilanliyan]

What? Nvidia drivers are perfect! You must be doing something wrong!

Go to page 29 of this:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/310.54/310.54-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf

There may be a workaround. Apparently it's a known issue.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

What? Nvidia drivers are perfect! You must be doing something wrong!

Go to page 29 of this:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/310.54/310.54-win8-win7-winvista-desktop-release-notes.pdf

There may be a workaround. Apparently it's a known issue.

Oyi

Flickering Black Screen After Installing R310 Drivers on
Windows 8
Issue
After installing the R310 driver on Windows 8, the subsequent reboot results in a black or
flickering screen.
Root Cause
This occurs because Windows Update performed a background installation of a Release
304 driver, which requires a reboot to complete the installation. After installing the
Release 310 driver and then rebooting the system, installation of both the Release 304 as
well as the Release 310 is completed, resulting in conflicting driver binaries and the black/
flickering screen.
Workaround - Prevention
To avoid the issue, reboot the system before installing the Release 310 driver.
Alternately, you can check the driver status under the Device Manager and perform the
reboot if the Device Manager indicates that a restart is needed. Then install the driver.
Workaround - Recovery
If you did not perform the necessary reboot prior to installing the driver and now
encounter the black screen, do the following:
1 Reboot in Safe Mode.
2 Uninstall the driver.
3 Disconnect from the internet and then restrt the system.
4 In normal mode, install the new driver.

 

[smakme7757]

Oyi

Flickering Black Screen After Installing R310 Drivers on
Windows 8
Issue
After installing the R310 driver on Windows 8, the subsequent reboot results in a black or
flickering screen.
Root Cause
This occurs because Windows Update performed a background installation of a Release
304 driver, which requires a reboot to complete the installation. After installing the
Release 310 driver and then rebooting the system, installation of both the Release 304 as
well as the Release 310 is completed, resulting in conflicting driver binaries and the black/
flickering screen.
Workaround - Prevention
To avoid the issue, reboot the system before installing the Release 310 driver.
Alternately, you can check the driver status under the Device Manager and perform the
reboot if the Device Manager indicates that a restart is needed. Then install the driver.
Workaround - Recovery
If you did not perform the necessary reboot prior to installing the driver and now
encounter the black screen, do the following:
1 Reboot in Safe Mode.
2 Uninstall the driver.
3 Disconnect from the internet and then restrt the system.
4 In normal mode, install the new driver.

Was just about to post that.

I was helping my brother install Windows 8 on his PC over the phone and we encountered this black screen issue.

It's a classic example of "Too much help, when not asked". Windows update shouldn't really be silently installing drivers anyway. However it was nice to finally find the solution.

 

[boneycat]

Thanks a ton! I'll give that a go.

 

[Sable]

What? Nvidia drivers are perfect! You must be doing something wrong!

LOL, came here to post that too.

 

[BrightCandle]

Definitely install the 313.96 beta. Its a lot better than the WHQL drivers. I have only one real problem remaining and that is surround related (surround in Windows is not good, at all). Every other problem I was having (games crashing, windows driver crashes, having to boot twice) all went away.

NVidias drivers for Windows 8 so far have been quite bad.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Was just about to post that.

I was helping my brother install Windows 8 on his PC over the phone and we encountered this black screen issue.

It's a classic example of "Too much help, when not asked". Windows update shouldn't really be silently installing drivers anyway. However it was nice to finally find the solution.

A lot of things shouldnt be doing what it is in Windows 8

 

[Lonyo]

Was just about to post that.

I was helping my brother install Windows 8 on his PC over the phone and we encountered this black screen issue.

It's a classic example of "Too much help, when not asked". Windows update shouldn't really be silently installing drivers anyway. However it was nice to finally find the solution.

When you do a fresh install of Win 8 on a new system, the automatic driver installing is quite nice. No messing about with getting chipset/etc drivers installed, everything is done automagically.

When I installed my GTX650 though, I had already disabled automatic updates so I didn't have any of these issues.

 

[HisDivineOrder]

I always try to reboot after a driver update. Even when it doesn't demand it. It's just one of those old habits I picked up. Like checking for IRQ conflicts.

 

[jamudin]

downgrade to WIN 7

 

[jamudin]

Maybe upgrade drivers

 

[jamudin]

Update win 8

 

[Ketchup]

If this is anything like previous versions of Windows, testing different drivers will be the best solution. Going between the manufacturer's site and Windows Update. Personally, I would get as many updates as possible from Windows Update, and then go from there.

 

[PsychoIB]

So I have been having the same issue for months now, RMA'd my card 3 times Issue started with a 580 lightning then they upgraded me to a 680 for the trouble, tried everything i could think of, and everything MSI and Asus tech Support could think of, from full re-install and cmos flash, loaded new bios on the card, Old BIOS on board, and every time I installed the Nvidia driver for my 680 it wen black screen after welcome screen, then switched to second bios that was back up of the first one I cleared out, I noticed that my virtualization was disabled, enabled it and no more black screen. hope it does the same for you guy's I guess is something in the driver runs legacy and requires the Windows Background XP compatibility virtualization to function, don't quote me on that just a guess.

So right now my system is sitting on a fresh install all important updates installed except the 680 Microsoft update, and none of the optional updates installed (Gonna go through them 1 by one and see if one in particular causes any issues) Installed the Nvidia 680 314.22 But the black screen was still occurring at this point then the only thing i changed to get it functioning again was enable virtualization in bios. set to enable and rebooted viola good to go ran 3d mark and prime no glitches, I have installed more optional updates and software and rebooted about 100 times no more black screen about to run kombustor and stress this brand new 680 out, see if i can break it.... lol

i7-3770K @ 4.6 gHz
Asus Maximus V Extreme
2x4 gb G-Skill Trident X @ 2400 Mhz
1x MSI nGTX 680 Lightning 2gb
Thermaltake Smart M Series M850W PSU