M860TU/9800M GTS Driver Issue

Hi,
i have some weird problems with my new M860Tu.
After installing Windows and getting it ready a week ago, everythin went perfect.
Played Assasin Creed & WoW on its natural resolution (1680 x 1050) on max details and everything. Then yesterday the worst case scenarion happened.

The laptop freezes and doesn't respond to anything, I monitored the temps (which were quite low) and hadn't OC/UV anything. After a forced restart I get a Inifinte Loop driver error every time I try to restart Windows.
So lets try Safe mode. Works without any problems, after deinstalling the current driver (the sticky ones) and restarting in normal mode everything worked without any problems.
So I install the official clevo driver but after restarting, the Laptop is insanely slow (stopped 4 minutes 37 seconds before the loading your personal settings message came) and freezes completly during that message.

So I reinstall Windows, but to my complete astonishment it is still the same situation. Without any VGA drivers installed the Windows boots extremly fast and without any problems whatsoever. But as soon as I install ANY nvidia drivers the pc kills itself while loading windows, always at the same place. It doesn't matter which driver I install (tested with the CD Rom ones, the official 9800M gts drivers from the clevo page, 178.15, 178.13, the modded sticky ones, 177.66, 176.28) and it always kills itself at the same ****ing position.

If you have ANY idea what I could try to get the system running again., it would be greatly appreciated .

€1: Safe Mode -->Enable VGA Mode: Boots without any Problems.

 

sounds to me like the gpu is toast, if it works fine on vga drivers and as soon as you install gpu drivers even with fresh windows install and its not working...

 

This was with the default drivers?

 

Yes, after reinstalling Windows it was the standard driver. Before I used the modded ones.

 

The GPU is fine; it's not toast (and that's a pretty ridiculous conclusion to come to based on the OP's post, since clearly default windows drivers work - and as if vga and gpu are different things or something). It's almost certainly some sort of driver conflict, or corrupted nVidia drivers, or possibly having leftover newer drivers after installing older ones again.

Carni: I assume that you "reinstalled Windows" by just overwriting the install, and not "did a complete format and then installed Windows fresh" - in which case the windows install would just be overwriting the current install. In this case all Windows will care about is overwriting its own drivers.

Uninstall all nVidia drivers in Safe Mode & use a driver remover program (like Driver Cleaner), again in Safe Mode, to remove any remnants of the nVidia drivers (and any other leftover drivers you may have). See here on how to properly uninstall drivers: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=16154

Reboot, install the latest nVidia drivers from laptopvideo2go.com (you need the 178.13 or 179.13 (whichever is for your OS), as they're the latest, and you need the associated .inf that you drop into the extracted drivers and overwrite the .inf already there (which is for desktops). Reboot, see if that fixes anything.