GTX 660M black screen after installing driver

FoxKhan · Apr 4, 2015

Hello,

I own a custom laptop on an MSI 16F2 platform. Few weeks ago my GTX 670M card died.

Out of better options, I bought an used GTX 660M from an acquaintance.

I had it installed, started Windows and everything looked OK. Then I installed the Nvidia drivers and after reboot, right after the loading screen, I got a black screen (with the screen still lit).

I went into Safe mode and uninstalled the driver. Then installed again and got the same result. Went into Bios, change settings, tried resetting CMOS, nothing worked. Installed Windows 7 Ultimate again, then Windows 8, same thing. I also tried modding the driver, still nothing.

I have no clue what is wrong. If you have any idea, please help me with this.

Thank you,

Fox

FoxKhan · Apr 6, 2015

I have connected the laptop to an external monitor and it works with the Nvidia driver installed. The laptop screen works just fine without the drivers. I would really appreciate some help. I've been searching for a fix for days now.

Thank you,
Fox

DrJCSlayer · May 1, 2015

I've had this issue on my G55VW for awhile now, something about the newer drivers makes me have the exact issue you've described. Try a legacy driver, I recommend driver version 311. You can use the latest drivers, when I did that I just had to hit win key + p and "switch" it to a different monitor mode. For some reason your laptop monitor is being treated as a secondary screen even if it is the only screen.

BarryT06 · Sep 26, 2015

Hi,
I had this issue the last few days, what worked for me was to disable the onboard graphics via device manager and setting the primary display to PCI instead of auto (auto allows iGPU in the mix) in the BIOS.

Hope this helps

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