Well that's me screwed

I've just removed nvidia drivers for the 880m via safe mode with the removal program. Everything went fine until I restarted. The card doesn't even show in the driver manager options now. I have the dell stock nvidia driver, upon starting the driver instillation, I get a prompt stating that there is no Nvidia GPU installed. It shows in my bios. I honestly don't get this. I really am sick of these AW models. I've never had such a problem with a computer before.

EDIT: I've completed a system restore. No more messing around with uninstalling nvidia drivers for me thank you.

 

Dam.. bud that sucks. Just try installing them without removing them first. Remember you've got Nvidia cards not AMD's

 

Just install the latest over the top.

 

Yeah tell me about it haha.

I would of done that if the actual card showed in my device manager.

 

Re-Installing the drivers would have found the card and it would have then shown up in Device Manager.

 

Under safe mode, open device manager -> Action -> Scan for hardware changes -> reboot -> install drivers.
Create a restore point before running DDU, always use the latest version (bug fixed).

 

I always like to stick to the Alienware version of the nVIDIA Driver

using Alienware nVIDIA Graphics 9.18.13.3244 (W8.1_W7) now

 

If you can't see it in the device manager then the drivers won't detect it.

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Are the temps really high that it causes the 880m to throttle? Maybe some decent thermal compound will do the trick.

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Not possible since the card wasn't anywhere to be seen other than in my bios.

Tried it, didn't work.

That's what I've done. I restored back to factory, all is fine now.

It can do if the temps get really high. I've never gone over 70c. Since applying IC Diamond, I've not hit over 65c.

Anyway, I found out why the card wasn't being detected. It was the PCI Root in device manager that was causing the problem. I spoke to someone on Nvidia. I uninstalled the PCI Root and then rebooted. Upon rebooting, woolah. My 880m showed up in device manager as a generic Microsoft adapter whatever they call it. I tried Nvidia's beta drivers and they uninstalled. Either way, I still restored back to factory state due to the way my OCD works.

 

Sorry, but you're wrong. The reasoning behind it not showing up in Device Manager is because Windows doesn't have a generic driver to show it as a video card. It may be listed as an Unknown device somewhere else in the tree.

Running the Driver install will automatically prompt the system to rescan for hardware changes and it will then install the device. That is if it is the right driver for the device.

 

Your also wrong. I tried the beta driver for the 880m and that didn't prompt Windows to rescan for the GPU. I actually solved the problem by uninstalling the PCI Root, which I was advised to do by one of the AW technicians.

 

So, in other words, it was a driver issue. But not with the video card directly. It was with the PCI root as you said. Most likely a corrupt install of that particular driver which was causing the system not to see the card. In essence I am right though. Once that connection was once again made by the PCI Root drivers being re-installed, the system once again found the card via automatic rescan. So, really, you were still misinformed about the driver/card in device manager issue, but the PCI root (which 99.8% of the time is fine) was hampering that detection.

 

but do you still have the throttling issue?

 

In essence your still wrong. Today I uninstalled the nvidia driver again to see if a clean install would fix my problem. This time around, uninstalling the PCI Root never forced Windows to scan for the GPU. I had to manually go in to my device manager and scan for the card myself. So ultimately, neither of us are correct.

Yeah, the throttling is still there.

 

Considering your other tread about your video card it's fairly certain that you are doing something wrong or have a bum card.