gts 250 windows 8

SpringWater

SpringWater

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I created a thread in the Operating Systems section that was about my pc giving me a blue screen after I re-start it for the first time, I thought it was caused by the motherboard drivers, but now I know that it's caused by my gts 250. No matter what I do my pc won't boot after I install the gts 250 drivers and restart it... but it works perfectly fine if I don't install the video card drivers, so what am I supposed to do? By the way I am not the only person having this problem, it seems like most gts 250 users are having problems with running it with windows 8 :confused:
 
I tried at least 10 different driver releases, none of them worked... then I found out that the drivers are interchangeable, so I downloaded the 8400gs drivers and guess what! they work with my gts 250 perfectly fine, I can play games etc... so now everything works except not on the drivers meant for the gts 250 but on the 8400gs drivers :confused: ...as long as they work I'm happy :D
 
Strange, but at least it works. I think Nvidia needs time to work on maturing the drivers, Windows 8 is pretty new. Are you able to use a program like MSI Afterburner to control the fan speed?
 
JLuchinski said:
Strange, but at least it works. I think Nvidia needs time to work on maturing the drivers, Windows 8 is pretty new. Are you able to use a program like MSI Afterburner to control the fan speed?
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I haven't tried yet, but I will, but it recognizes the card in the nvidia control panel, meaning it says: cards installed: gts 250, 8400gs (I'm using the 8400gs as a dedicated physx card) And also, I think when I was installing the drivers it said: installing nvidia universal drivers, so I guess this proves that they really are universal :D
 
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Yep, just checked, afterburner works, it even says that the card is running on drivers version 9.18.13.1090. 310.90, no idea how they got there cause I only installed the 8400gs drivers, maybe they run on the same drivers... :confused:, anyways, everything works I can overclock, etc...
 
After you installed the drivers are you setting up the 8400 as the dedicated PhysX card in the Nvidia Control Panel?
 
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