GTX 1080 not working in Windows 10

[Stem Cell One]

I installed the MSI GTX 1080 and was able to play Doom and Injustice, but 4 days ago NVDIA released a driver and all I get is a black screen.

Nothing I tried worked, so I uninstalled everything and then reinstalled them.

I tried installing the driver that worked before the new one--dated mid-July 2016--but I get an error message that the graphics card is not compatible with this version of Windows.

Still black screen.

Today, after uninstalling (again), Windows downloaded a WDDM 1080 driver--but still I get a black screen.

The only way I can see the screen on my PC is by uninstalling all the display drivers, and Windows uses the basic driver dated 2006.

However, I don't get any sound, and I cannot launch any Steam games--I get the "crashed" message.

Anyone have the same problem?

Any solutions?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The updated Driver depends on which Win10 you have.
There is one for "Win10" and one for "Win10 Anniversary Edition"
Especially 10 vs 10.1

[Stem Cell One]

This is what I see

Edition Windows 10 Home
Version 1607
OS Build 14393.51

Windows kept automatically downloading and updating the files--the one released today is labelled nVidia - Graphics Adapter WDDM2.0 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080.

But both this, and the NVIDIA drivers, do not work--they give me a black screen.

[Azza ☠]

Manually download the latest Nvidia drivers from:
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Save the file into a folder or just to your desktop, but don't run yet.

Reboot into safe mode. Ensure your anti-virus scanner or security software won't be blocking driver modifications. Some do this to prevent viruses from hooking into drivers (which is a good thing, unless you are trying to replace/update them).

Under your Control Panel > Device Manager

Click on the 'View' menu tab at the top, then 'Show hidden devices'.

Next, look under the 'Display adapters'. Is there multiple ghost drivers? If so, right-click and uninstall them all. If Windows popsup an icon on the bottom-right taskbar saying it's attempting to install graphic card drivers again, just cancel that.

Right-click your drivers installation file and select 'Run as admin'. Follow the installation as normal. Reboot back to normal.

[Stem Cell One]

Azza--did everything you listed.

Show hidden devices only showed Microsoft Basic Video Adapter, no ghost drivers. I uninstalled this.

I tried to run the NVIDIA drivers installation file but I got a message that it needed the C+ to run, and that it did not recognize and hardware.

Booting back to normal mode, I saw that the Microsoft Basic Video Adapter is back.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

U need to go grab and install all Visual C++ runtimes x86 and x64 and go in the Windows Features also and install .NET Framework and ASP-NET

You can't run Drivers from Safe Mode.

In Safe Mode though is where u run DDU and select NVIDIA > Clean and Restart

Then disconnect or LAN/WIFI and then install the latest NVIDIA Driver Pack in Normal Mode by right clicking the file > Run As Admin > during installer click Custom and tick the box for Clean Install

If does not work after this and GPU remains as Microsoft Basic Display; then your GPU might be dead.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Make sure you actually grab the Win10 drivers, it defaults to Win7, so you have to be sure to select Win10.

[Reddy]

You have Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, considering your Window 10 build is 1607.

Download and install the GTX 1080 driver for Windows 10 Anniversary Edition x64.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Originally posted by Feyrom (Project V):

You have Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, considering your Window 10 build is 1607.

Download and install the GTX 1080 driver for Windows 10 Anniversary Edition x64.

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