Nvidia Video Cards vs Windows 7

About three months ago I bought an HP desktop PC with Intel chipset integrated on board. I thought I needed better graphics so bought and installed Nvidia GeForce 9400 GT PCI Express with 1024 MB. My system meets the requirements for this card.

I then realized that for 95% of my needs, the intergrated controler was just great and would handle all ok.

In the mean time I was using the Nvidia card and beginning to have problems. When I put the PC in sleep mode, the monitor would not start up. I did not mention that the PC came with Vista and that I upgraded to Win 7.

On the net I see lots of folk having this same problem. I took out the Nvidia card and went back to on board graphics.

Everthing works great except my "experience index" base score has dropped from 4.9 to 3.3.

All I'm wondering, with all this, is if any of you have had similar problems in relation to your monitors not starting up after sleep mode.

So I think perhaps I have posted this on the wrong forum, in that, I'm asking help that might be better for a more tech related forum. This wasn't really related to writing and I didn't realize that it should be.

backslashbaby said:

Driver vs hardware things are just no fun, I think

What is the model # of your HP, and optionally the name of the original video card? Are you wanting to find out how to make the new card work or take away the problems with the original configuration?

If you just want to go back to scratch, I believe sytem restore undoes driver changes, too.

Actually, I'm not clear on whether the original equipment ever worked after your Win 7 install. If it didn't, let us know.



ETA: Was I clear? In a nutshell, please let us know:

--Model # for HP system
-- Timeline/order of what you changed
-- Which exact Win 7 you installed
-- What worked when

Thanks

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Model HP P6110f
it came with Vista Premium 64bit installed, I upgraded to same for Windows 7 ( not clean install ). Everything worked fine with onboard graphics controller ( still does when I switch back ). Only recently did I add a new PCI card (see above).

I have also just recently had a better power supply added (from 250 to 400 ).

I have the very latest drivers installed from Nvidia.
On the net I'm finding lots of folk with the same problem concerning Nvidia cards. I can't recommend them. They say they are working on this issue but it's been going on for years now. How can they do this?

From advise on the web and now on this forum, I think if I want to use their card I will just have to shut down the PC each night and forgo the sleep altogether. Thank you all.