Gatewayp-173x fx video driver split screen

I am having serious problems with a gateway p173x fx with a nvidia geforce 8800m gts. I reinstalled the gateway windows vista ultimate 64-bit operating disc. I get a split screen all the way from the bios boot up with a top half and bottom half with both halfs showing the same contents. I have downloaded and installed all of the updated drivers from gateway. The latest nvidea driver that gateway has is 7.15.11.6746.

I was able to get it to work for little while by coping the Nvlddmkm.sys from the nvida folder to the windows/system/32/drivers folder. I had a perfect screen for a few hours until i had a cd read lock up on me and the computer locked up. I cannot boot into windows normally, I have to boot into safemode. I get the split screen from the bios bootup all the way into windows. Any suggestions. I downloaded the latest driver from nvidia and no go. I think I need to clean all the nvida crap off the computer and registry and try again. Not sure what to del in the registry.

 

I went into the add/remove program and uninstalled the nvida drivers. Computer booted perfectly into windows. In device manager it shows the nvida 8800m not installed. Got a prompt in windows to install the drivers and reboot. It must have hashed a 1/2 gig because it took about 10min to shut down and reboot. got the dual top/bottom screen again and won't boot into windows normally. have to use safe mode again.

 

Guess you have to check if your screen cable has come loose.

 

booted into safe mode went into device manager and updated the drive to the one I downloaded from nvidea website - nvidia driver 8.17.11.9562. computer hangs on reboot. have to reboot into windows safe mode with a split screen.

I wonder if another device driver is conflicting with the nvidia graphics card

 

its not a cable because I have gotten it to work without moving the computer at all. its like having to seperate screens a top half and a bottom half that shows the same contents.

 

Hope its not something as serious as this.

 

I disabled the video card and uninstalled the drivers. I then ran a program called driver sweeper that searched and removed the stuff from the registery and the harddrive. When I rebooted I had a normal screen. After rbooting windows proceeded to load another set of drivers for the Nvidia 8800m GTS. I disabled the video and uninstalled those drivers and then ran the driver sweeper program again and then rebooted back to windows. No video card showed in the devices and it finally stopped loading drivers. I then proceeded to install the latest Nvidia drivers 8.17.11.9562. This worked ok when I rebooted. But I did get a error message saying "nvlddmk stopped responding and has recovered". the display worked ok after that msg. I 've noticed when I boot that display is a little flaky. Still have some issues. Computer doesn't want to shut down. Had to turn the power off. It will not boot normally back into windows. trying to get into windows safe mode and even that isn't working too good. Now have the split screen again.

If I had a copy windows xp I think I would install that and perhaps my troubles would be over. Ton's of stuff on the net about Vista and Nvidia having issues.