I have been searching forums for a while now and still haven’t found an answer, maybe someone can help me out. I am building a PC and have not been able to successfully install an Nvidia graphics card. I have tried on Windows XP (w/ and w/out SP2), Vista, Windows 7, and Ubuntu. Every time, no matter which OS I am using, the Nvidia installation freezes part-way through and goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor at the top. The computer is then unresponsive and will not boot, except in safe mode. I have to reinstall the OS to get it to boot properly. I have tried using the repair software that comes with the disc but so far none have worked. I have also tried installing in safe mode, however the computer still will not boot in regular mode after the driver is installed (even when turning off nvidia processes in msconfig).
I tried this with an nvidia gtx250 and an nvidia gts250 with the same results. The only other thing that it could possibly be would be the RAM. I have 6gb (3x2gb) of corsair 1600 DDR3 memory, and the OS sometimes will only detect 3.5gb. Please let me know if you need anymore info, any help is much appreciated, I’ve tried everything I can think of.
