Having to uninstall NVIDIA drivers twice

[Harvog]

What happens is I follow all the steps (uninstall in the control panel) until I get to the graphics display driver. Whereupon I select it and click uninstall and it starts. However the black screen flash never recovers. It simply stays black. So i have to reboot my computer and lo and behold while the computer acts like there isnt a driver installed with the low resolution and other factors, the actual driver is still installed. However this time I can unisntall it without any black screen flashing.

I can then normally install my driver.

Mainly im concerned that this will corrupt something and mess with my drivers. I have tested this twice with 310.70(once) and the latest WHQL drivers 306.97(installed, uninstalled, installed) I believe.

I did run a benchmark in CoH and that all SEEMED fine. No distortions or artifacts and a constant 60fps.

IM using a gtx 570.


EDIT: I did select advanced options and used clean install to reset all the previous settings and such to reduce the chance of previous inconsistencies messing with things.

[Jamebonds1]

More important is i need know what is your specs.

[Harvog]

I7-2600 non k
Gtx 570 Superclocked from Evga
16gb of ram ( tested a while ago and never had any ram specific problems)
A 1tb hitachi HDD
A corsiar PSU with enough pwoer for what I have thats like a month old.
and a motherboard from Gigabyte that I can't find my paper for at this moment. If thats terribly important I can have a huge look sometime later ( can't now)

[Jamebonds1]

How much watt and AMP for your PSU?

[Harvog]

its the HX 650 with 650 watts and if im reading this right 2x20amps?

Are you sure its a PSU issue? its not under any load and the computer still works the screen just doesn't come back on (I could hear a background program I had forgot to close the first time round playing sounds)

[Jamebonds1]

It is daul rail 12 volt?

[Jamebonds1]

No. Sorry my mistaken. It is 54 AMPS 12 volt rail. It is not PSU issued. It can be issued due to motherboard BIOS. You have to update it.

[Maverick]

simple solution is too uninstall the driver in safe mode and then install the new driver in normal boot mode, if you uninstall it in safe mode the driver is disabled and won't cause issues when you uninstall it. why i don't know as I have 3 computers and only one of them does the same thing as yours but the other 2 don't.

[Daddio]

You have the option for a "clean install" from the new driver set, no need to use safe mode, or to uninstall the older/not working correctly drivers - normaly that is

Try just overwriting the drivers without an uninstall

don't install in safe mode as it creates issues, also if needed try driver cleaner/driver sweeper - again not normaly needed for the new driver set