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I would have a play, normally, but I've been somewhat traumatised having to spend the whole weekend contacting Microsoft. I have a win7 premium hard copy plus an upgrade key to ultimate. Both need to be installed in order and both needed intervention to validate the license. Then I've...

Oh, and many thanks for your help with this! Even if I have been a wimp and given up :( Jeremy

Hi Slartybart. Sadly for me I did think of that one; two of my three cards are sat sadly on my desk. I am running a conventional, unoverclocked, single graphics card setup while I resolve the issue. I think 8.1 simply doesn't like the rather elderly Gigabyte mobo and I am stuck with 7 until I...

OK. I have rolled back to windows 7 and everything is working correctly once more. 8.1 simply doesn't like that motherboard I think. I should get a new motherboard really but since I'd also have to replace my CPU which is an i7 990x, costing about the same as its serial so I am not in a big...

Thank you but I don't know how you can get a much cleaner install than my method: boot off windows cd drop partition; create partition; format it install windows reboot after updates (including graphics) have downloaded and installed watch the endless "You pc has a problem..." reboot loop...

Hi. I tried that this morning; clean install of windows 8.1, downloaded updates and rebooted. It boots until just before the login screen then I get the pale blue screen of problems (pbsop) saying SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION with nvlddmkm.sys. That's window's own nvidia driver as you suggested...

Hi Slartybart. I will give that a go. I kind of assumed that the card manufacturer (evga) would or might provide customised drivers; that's why I disabled the network to stop windows getting in first. I'll try that when I can and let you know. Thanks!

Hi. Apologies for the lack of dump as per instructions but I can't! I install 8.1 (clean) on gigabyte sniper mb. It boots fine. Then (without connecting the network) I install the drivers that came with my nvidia 780 card. This also works and my second screen comes to life. I can use this as...