nVidia Backend

[Sacremas]

So I have a new nVidia card, a GTX 980, and sometimes I notice I get this horrendous stutterign going on, to the point that it's unplayable. When I bring up Windows Task Manager I always every time see that it's a program called "nVidia Backend" that's taking up at least 20 % of both my processor (i5 2500k) and RAM (8 GB), and when that stops workign my stuttering stops.
 

Does anyone have any idea what this program is, what it's needed for, and if I can get rid of it without negative effects?

 

This is not something I want to go to the nVidia boards for, because it's something I figure that anyone that hangs out on the nVidia boards will tell me I absolutely need regardless if I do or not. I tried to do some google searches for it and while there were more than a few "Nivida Backend takes up a lot of my CPU" type posts, all links were dead or timed out when I tried them.

[Alpia]

So I have a new nVidia card, a GTX 980, and sometimes I notice I get this horrendous stutterign going on, to the point that it's unplayable. When I bring up Windows Task Manager I always every time see that it's a program called "nVidia Backend" that's taking up at least 20 % of both my processor (i5 2500k) and RAM (8 GB), and when that stops workign my stuttering stops.

 

Does anyone have any idea what this program is, what it's needed for, and if I can get rid of it without negative effects?

 

This is not something I want to go to the nVidia boards for, because it's something I figure that anyone that hangs out on the nVidia boards will tell me I absolutely need regardless if I do or not. I tried to do some google searches for it and while there were more than a few "Nivida Backend takes up a lot of my CPU" type posts, all links were dead or timed out when I tried them.

 

 

This is main process for GeForce Experience after update. If you kill it, GeForce Experience may crash.

 

 

I can be mid-game, on any game, and all of a sudden my hard drive just starts reading, incessantly. Whenever this happens I pull up task manager and it's always the nvbackend.exe causing it.

 

There is setting in Preferences tab named "Automatically scan for games daily".

 

 

It is probably more that a day from the previous game scan and the game scan is started in automatically in background.

It uses the locations listed above for both user-initiated and this daily scan, so if you added something like C:\ there it will take a lot of time.

 

Solutions:

1) Have less files under "locations" to make it quick. You have your games installed under C:\Games or D:\steam anyway, don't you?

Pros: if new game is supported it is automatically found. If the game is patched it is automatically found again without you even noticing.

Cons: still does some work in background once a day.

 

2) Disable "Automatically scan for games daily".

Pros: NvBackend.exe will not update your game list on daily basis.

Cons: If we support new game or your game is patched and can no longer be detected you'll not know this until manually refresh the game list from the "Games" tab (there is small button under the game list).

 

Thank you for your feedback.

Member of GeForce Experience development team.

 

Opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect NVIDIA opinions.

 

#13

Posted 01/22/2014 09:44 AM  

 

[Sacremas]

Thanks a lot! I always manually configure my settings in games, I don't use Experience for anything but downloading drivers, so for now I have used Autoruns to just kill that and a dozen other processes. We'll see if that works better.

[Alpia]

Thanks a lot! I always manually configure my settings in games, I don't use Experience for anything but downloading drivers, so for now I have used Autoruns to just kill that and a dozen other processes. We'll see if that works better.

 

Well I'm no pro under that tab, but if you ask me you dont really need the geforce expierience at all while playing besides for shadowplay, but I'm not sure if the expierience thingy is somehow involved with the nvidea system config that would be not that good as you need it. As I undersand it its only a patching program so no need to have it even start with your system. If I remember right a friend of mine didnt even know the geforce expierence thing exists so it cant be that neccesary.

 

[Sacremas]

Okay, new problem, a much worse one;

 

I used the above linked program to disable auto startup of nVidia programs as well as some other things I was no longer using (my last printer, Apple iTunes, something for the bluetooth in my computer I had never used, and also deleted the entries that no longer actually had any files on)... and as a result my computer no longer starts up. I'm on my laptop now, my computer gets to windows logon (Win 10) and wants to auto-log into my account, stands there and spins and spins, and then the computer restarts. Any idea what's going on or how to fix it? I never get any error messages or the like, it's like it wants to install an update and then restarts, except it's done it about 15 times now.

 

Going to google some more on this, but please anyone who has any idea let me know!

[Sacremas]

Trying to get into windows safe mode, doesn't work, PC restarts before ever giving me the option to log in or go safe mode or enabling keyboard/mouse, and every guide I find to troubleshoot this always starts with going into win 10 safe mode first.

[pinky6225]

Have you tried removing the new GPU and running with the onboard graphics to see if you can login?

[Sacremas]

Have you tried removing the new GPU and running with the onboard graphics to see if you can login?

 

I do not have the technical skills for that. The card was massive and took effort to put into the case, a lot of jiggling done by the technician.

 

Regardless I do not think this is due to the card or any disabling of nVidia stuff from autorun, I think it's something else I disabled in the process. I need some way to reset the comp, but I have no freaking idea how to do that when I can't get into windows safe mode even. Going into BIOS is the only option I have available, and again I do not have the technical skills to muck around in there.

[pinky6225]

Was curious as i also have windows 10 and it seems there is no easy way to get to safe mode unless your PC will boot past the login screen from the googling i've done

 

Only thing i could see is a suggestion of booting to the login screen and then holding down shift and restarting from there to get to the troubleshooting screen and from there go to safe mode, might be worth a try

[Sacremas]

Thank you, but I already tried it. During the entire process of starting up until it automatically restarts, the only option I ever have is entering the BIOS. When the computer gets into windows there is no stop to choose me to log in or the like because I already set it automatiically log into my account since it's a stationary computer that's never going to get stolen unless someone breaks into my home, in which case the safety of my windows certainly could matter less. Because of this, it never stops up to give me the option to go into safe mode or anything, I've tried pressing any button I could during the start up process and it seems unless you are able to get to the point where you manually log in, there is no way to enter safe mode. GG Microsoft, keep improving your work! Most likely this will result in me having to reinstall my entire OS.

 

I'm taking my computer to a local shop tomorrow to see if they can do anything. If possible at all I will try rolling back to Win 7 in the process.

 

Regarding the GPU, to be clear I've had that for 5 months now without incident, the only change is stopping nVidia Experience and Backend from auto-booting during startup.

[Alpia]

Thank you, but I already tried it. During the entire process of starting up until it automatically restarts, the only option I ever have is entering the BIOS. When the computer gets into windows there is no stop to choose me to log in or the like because I already set it automatiically log into my account since it's a stationary computer that's never going to get stolen unless someone breaks into my home, in which case the safety of my windows certainly could matter less. Because of this, it never stops up to give me the option to go into safe mode or anything, I've tried pressing any button I could during the start up process and it seems unless you are able to get to the point where you manually log in, there is no way to enter safe mode. GG Microsoft, keep improving your work! Most likely this will result in me having to reinstall my entire OS.

 

I'm taking my computer to a local shop tomorrow to see if they can do anything. If possible at all I will try rolling back to Win 7 in the process.

 

Regarding the GPU, to be clear I've had that for 5 months now without incident, the only change is stopping nVidia Experience and Backend from auto-booting during startup.

 

You dont need a program to disable autostart you can do this over the system confic dunno how to properly translate it, but should be called something like "services" there you see all I made a super awesome drawing that hopefully dont confuses you to much because of my paint skills

 

Disabling processes you are not sure about is allways a meeeh thing never a good idea so I would keep it onto processes you know what they do and consume system load as the geforce expierience

You can also try to just disable the game scan as shown in the quote I posted before

 

Win10 has a build in repair tool http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10

 

Edit: from what you described it indeed sounds as someone allready said a problem with your graphics card or better with one of the programs you terminated it would work as mentioned before if you would just put the card out so win10 dont try to load whatever you deleted and starts on onboard graphics then you should be able to reinstall whatever you deleted, but if you take it anyway to your shop they should fix it easy if they are not completly stupid

[D_ManXX2]

have you tried this ?

 

[Sacremas]

None of those things worked because of preexisting settings, I could never get into windows safe mode and all of those things required me to be there. Hitting any number of f8 or any other things as the computer was starting up other than DEL to enter EFI BIOS never worked. So I reinstalled Win 7 from disc instead, which lost me everything on that drive and seems to have resulted in one of my internal HDDs going missing as I can't find it, and I can't connect to the internet. It's connected via cable to the router, the same router that this computer is connected to as I'm making this post... gah.

[gregathit]

Check that your cables to your hard drives and motherboard are all securely attached (pull them loose and firmly reattach them).  The issue could have been that in the above "jiggling" to get the gpu in, the technician might have loosened a connection of your HD, which eventually worked all the way loose, and that is what caused windows to freak out.  It kept looking for a drive that just wasn't there...... 

[Sacremas]

Check that your cables to your hard drives and motherboard are all securely attached (pull them loose and firmly reattach them).  The issue could have been that in the above "jiggling" to get the gpu in, the technician might have loosened a connection of your HD, which eventually worked all the way loose, and that is what caused windows to freak out.  It kept looking for a drive that just wasn't there...... 

 

5 months or so after I installed the GPU, and right after I used a uncertified program to disable a bunch of old drivers as well as nVidia Experience then restarted? That seems rather unlikely.

 

I do not have the technical expertise to mess around inside my computer, I would need to put it in merely to put more RAM in it. I learned how to do these things in a course about 20 years ago, of which I remember only not to discharge static electricity into the hardware, and I do not trust myself with a 2000 USD (well 5 years ago) PC that I spend more time with than I do anything else in my life.

[D_ManXX2]

not sure but do you have a windows 10 startup cd ?? if so have you tried loading that up ?? I can't really help you i don't usually jump on alpha builds specially windows. Windows 10 seem to have been broken and should not be released like this. No wonder it was free. But i am still on windows 7 Worse case scenario would be downgrading to windows 7 if you are unable to even get in safe mode.

 

Try making a bootable windows 10 and it should allow you to get into windows 10:

 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

 

 

[Mashi]

5 months or so after I installed the GPU, and right after I used a uncertified program to disable a bunch of old drivers as well as nVidia Experience then restarted? That seems rather unlikely.

 

I do not have the technical expertise to mess around inside my computer, I would need to put it in merely to put more RAM in it. I learned how to do these things in a course about 20 years ago, of which I remember only not to discharge static electricity into the hardware, and I do not trust myself with a 2000 USD (well 5 years ago) PC that I spend more time with than I do anything else in my life.

 

 

I will say, that you're not the only person that's having problems with Win10 and there suddenly being a stutter problem during gaming.  I'm running into the same problem on my PC but I'm using a 7950(AMD).  There's been some posts over on Guru3D with people making similar complaints, it wouldn't surprise me if in the last security update that there was something that got buggered up.

 

Anyway, if you're able to get into safe mode in Win10 I'd look at fully removing all of the nvidia drivers(physx, control panels, drivers, etc), and then doing a full clean up of them using driversweeper.  Then head into the advanced system settings(System Properties) and disable all driver updates.  Then install the last working nvidia driver that you know didn't cause any problems with your PC.

 

The other option of course is if you can get into Win10, but can't get anywhere you can always do a system reset(reset windows to a base install state) then start updating and reinstalling crap from there.  It won't touch your documents/files/etc.  That should let you get up and running anyway.  If you can't use the built-in tool, then you can grab a 4GB flash drive and run the installer and see if it can do an automated repair.  It sounds like the program you used through disabled something it shouldn't have, and it's stuck at the winauth login.  I have used autoruns before in the past and it's trivial to break the login system using it.

 

You can download the Win10 media creation tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

 

 

Anyway, you'd be surprised, the problem with SATA cables is that many of them will work themselves loose over a period of months from thermal expansion and contraction alone.  That's why you saw a lot of the really cheap connectors back when SATA was brand new held in place with a glob of hot glue at the top edge of the connector(not pin) and the drive itself.

 

PC's are easy to check for loose cables though.  If you know how lego's work, you can unplug and replug a cable for diagnostic purposes.  If you don't feel up to it, then find someone locally who can take a look. 

[Alpia]

 

Check that your cables to your hard drives and motherboard are all securely attached (pull them loose and firmly reattach them).  The issue could have been that in the above "jiggling" to get the gpu in, the technician might have loosened a connection of your HD, which eventually worked all the way loose, and that is what caused windows to freak out.  It kept looking for a drive that just wasn't there...... 

 

5 months or so after I installed the GPU, and right after I used a uncertified program to disable a bunch of old drivers as well as nVidia Experience then restarted? That seems rather unlikely.

 

I do not have the technical expertise to mess around inside my computer, I would need to put it in merely to put more RAM in it. I learned how to do these things in a course about 20 years ago, of which I remember only not to discharge static electricity into the hardware, and I do not trust myself with a 2000 USD (well 5 years ago) PC that I spend more time with than I do anything else in my life.

 

 

Just a tipp for the future make a partition on your harddrive ~50gb and only install windows and core programs on it that way whenever you reinstall windows or anything else you only loose this partition instead of the whole harddrive

 

I dont wont to encourage you to "mess" with your pc, but even when I'm scared everytime I want to change anything on my pc may it be static charging dirty fingers on some contacts or whatever, anyway regardless of my fears I have never broken anything and I never even discharged me (well I dont have a carpet in my appartment and dont wear socks)

The first thing I changed in my pc was my graphics card as the cooler was broken and hey it was so damn easy its really just plug and play I touched serval other parts in the progress no harm was done, but as said still scared as fuck whenever changing something so if you want to put more ram into it just do it, but as said I also dont want to encourage you to do something that would hurt you financially if you can effort some bucks it may indeed be better to let it a technican do it dont know where you live, but in my country you also have a warranty on the work he did not just on the parts so it indeed may be a good idea to use it if you can affort it

btw if you put more ram into your pc be sure to buy the right one fitting to your other ram stick they should have the same frequency

 

[LordJerle]

I've had a 970 for about a year now and I haven't had any issues like that o.O

[oticon]

id be more willing to ask for more information before posting a reply to this .... but given everyone else is going out on a limb here and posting a reply , ill do what i can as well

 

1st? have you checked your motherboard to make sure that it isnt one of the many motherboards that is having the eEFI issues that the 980 tends to emphasize when installed (alot of the older boards have failed the eEFI standards and pc shops wont tell you this cause a $480-up card looks better in your hands then on their shelves.

 

1a. more importantly what motherboard and Service revision do you have/ and are your drivers updated or did you just install from the disk provided with the gpu 

 

2. what system o/s are you running and what overclocks have you in place

 

3. what Resolutions are you running 

 

3a.? what ram and how much ram are you running speeds and dimm sizes

 

4. and lastly what power supply are you using...i ask this because i see it all to often with joe schmo down the street who has to play with the big boys out there goes out and buys a killer card and a $300 keyboard and a $200 dollar headphone and runs out and grabs a $50 diablotek 800watt psu that is really only worth $10 as its over rated for sales to make it look like its capable of running your system or meeting its needs

[Alpia]

id be more willing to ask for more information before posting a reply to this .... but given everyone else is going out on a limb here and posting a reply , ill do what i can as well

 

1st? have you checked your motherboard to make sure that it isnt one of the many motherboards that is having the eEFI issues that the 980 tends to emphasize when installed (alot of the older boards have failed the eEFI standards and pc shops wont tell you this cause a $480-up card looks better in your hands then on their shelves.

 

1a. more importantly what motherboard and Service revision do you have/ and are your drivers updated or did you just install from the disk provided with the gpu 

 

2. what system o/s are you running and what overclocks have you in place

 

3. what Resolutions are you running 

 

3a.? what ram and how much ram are you running speeds and dimm sizes

 

4. and lastly what power supply are you using...i ask this because i see it all to often with joe schmo down the street who has to play with the big boys out there goes out and buys a killer card and a $300 keyboard and a $200 dollar headphone and runs out and grabs a $50 diablotek 800watt psu that is really only worth $10 as its over rated for sales to make it look like its capable of running your system or meeting its needs

 

I'm not the OP, but consider this your questions kinda dont matter his problems started once he deinstalled or disabled some autostart programs with a tool so his system was stable onto then so its quite obvious that what he disabled lead him to the problem now so all these questions dosent really matter just saying as again its quite obvious the problem are the disabled autostart programs windows obviously needs to work and as they dont work windows wont boot up anymore --> solution windows repair or new installation

 

[oticon]

there is no ginger way of replying to that last remark without sounding like as ass so forgive me if i sound like a jerk here guys

 

too a point your right there Deox on another your totally way off base, as with any new pc builder to be its best to get them involved in their pc rather then to let them get by on the usual cop outs , look my way of teaching another about pc's is to get them to research their machines so they know just whats in their build and from there build them up to diagnosing their issues ... it builds character and better understanding of their tools they use in their day to day lives, most of all it builds self accomplishments and esteem, there is nothing magical about today's pc's infact they have become pretty much dumbed down and user friendly as opposed to what was available a decade ago ... yes today's pcs still suffer from electromagnetic and static electricity issues, but given all the safety standards that have been put into post office and shipping companies on a global scale do you think that what you do at your desktop is any worse then what they do at the shipping and receiving docks world wide and at customs offices, in the old days yes you needed a strap, nowadays as long as it has a power supply in it and the power supply is in the off position and plugged into a power strip with the power in the off position that static strap has become useless just touch the case to discharge any static and your good to go, if your really worried about it grab a strap it wont hurt to have one 

 

if you read his posts further yes he has done the BIG no no and thats to have the internet fix his pc with a random shut off of all unnecessary programs  

 

"like they would know just what HIS machine needs to run after all they its on the inter-web so it must be made just for his machine right?"

 

look he flubbed up, and now he is here looking for understanding of what he did wrong and is looking for a quick way to fix it, truth is at this point given all the info we as members have given him has been over and above his understanding or comprehension therefore a new line of questioning is needed, at this point does it really matter if the questions are relevant ? to a certain degree yes but if the individual is looking for a quick fix and doesn't want to take the time to learn it or to understand it then applying the fix will be just as useless to him and inevitably any failure will be passed onto us as members "take the Recent CRACKED journalism for example" 

 

my approach is simple he wont need to become a genius overnight he doesn't need to be a rocket scientist either , he just needs to get over being afraid to open the case and look at the parts in his pc and to ask questions on what he doesn't understand and to follow directions given to him 

 

yes we all would love to be the one who comes up with the quick fix

but windows 10 CANNOT BE REPAIRED FROM BOOT OR SAFE MODE it can only be repaired from within a windows 10 environment you can do a reinstall but a repair no, not as of yet, you can say im full of BS if you want its OK, me personally who am i , im the guy that goes out and buys windows O/S's and purposely crashes them to see what makes them tick I've done my share of building and selling pc's world wide , and i have been in the gaming environment since the commodore 64 was considered the top of the line home entertainment gaming console my preference is windows 7 as it has been the most stable though windows xp was the most widely used and updated platform to exist todate which is why it was a natural for a base starting line for 7 and with the popular Aero theme implemented became Windows Longhorn which was rebranded after the initial release became a flop better known as windows vista, or basically the unfinished version that we all have come to know and love windows 7.

 

What are my qualifications, who cares point is every person that comes here looking for help should feel comfortable with the environment and the people in it, but by stating issues like what you did above is more controversial to the problem then it is of help, the guy feels like a 5th wheel and feels bad enough as it is, and he has swallowed enough of  his pride to step out and ask for help, i was simply asking him to take another step and to say hey its OK we've all been there before and yes you can do this 

 

 

[oticon]

 

id be more willing to ask for more information before posting a reply to this .... but given everyone else is going out on a limb here and posting a reply , ill do what i can as well

 

1st? have you checked your motherboard to make sure that it isnt one of the many motherboards that is having the eEFI issues that the 980 tends to emphasize when installed (alot of the older boards have failed the eEFI standards and pc shops wont tell you this cause a $480-up card looks better in your hands then on their shelves.

 

1a. more importantly what motherboard and Service revision do you have/ and are your drivers updated or did you just install from the disk provided with the gpu 

 

2. what system o/s are you running and what overclocks have you in place

 

3. what Resolutions are you running 

 

3a.? what ram and how much ram are you running speeds and dimm sizes

 

4. and lastly what power supply are you using...i ask this because i see it all to often with joe schmo down the street who has to play with the big boys out there goes out and buys a killer card and a $300 keyboard and a $200 dollar headphone and runs out and grabs a $50 diablotek 800watt psu that is really only worth $10 as its over rated for sales to make it look like its capable of running your system or meeting its needs

 

I'm not the OP, but consider this your questions kinda dont matter his problems started once he deinstalled or disabled some autostart programs with a tool so his system was stable onto then so its quite obvious that what he disabled lead him to the problem now so all these questions dosent really matter just saying as again its quite obvious the problem are the disabled autostart programs windows obviously needs to work and as they dont work windows wont boot up anymore --> solution windows repair or new installation

 

 

there is a 3rd option that most do not realize is available and even a 4th which he may be overlooking because the issue may be present and he doesn't realize it is apparent more on that later 

 

the 3rd option is having a second pc that is currently running windows 10 uninstalling his O/S drive and installing into that machine and updating the pc with that drive enabled as a slave or secondary drive , windows update would source out the needed windows programs for the primary drive and then he could simply copy and install the start up programs from the primary drive to the secondary or slave drive in essence his currently wiped start up program drive from his machine and then reinstall it to his machine and be back in business with a margin of 70% or better of it working it may not be perfect but it should get his machine back up to working status

 

the 4th option is " which brings up another issue common with windows 10 and black screens or blue screens is the common issue of windows sees discreet video card as a"A second monitor" if the motherboard has a primary Intel or AMD onboard GPU of which there is a work around for that as well but getting him to feel comfortable in removing of his hardware needs to come before a fix can be implemented taken from the windows 10forums

 

" If you have an on board Intel graphics controller as well as an add on graphics card, windows thinks you have one more monitor connected than you actually have. so when windows loads its outputting the video signal to a bogus monitor."

 

 

or there might be a jumper on his motherboard which would allow for a bios reset to last known working config to be implemented, or a basic dual bios feature, but with the limited information he has given there really isn't a clear cut direction to go with providing him an answer so we need to start with the basics and build him up to a level of better understanding us, yes it means work on his part and more on ours because we need to revert back to what it was like when we first started building our machines

[carolight]

About the stutter, I was suffering with a horrid micro stutter have a long time & couldn't figure out why... turned out my mouse was to low dpi

[Rebel Marauder]

 

Thanks a lot! I always manually configure my settings in games, I don't use Experience for anything but downloading drivers, so for now I have used Autoruns to just kill that and a dozen other processes. We'll see if that works better.

 

Well I'm no pro under that tab, but if you ask me you dont really need the geforce expierience at all while playing besides for shadowplay, but I'm not sure if the expierience thingy is somehow involved with the nvidea system config that would be not that good as you need it. As I undersand it its only a patching program so no need to have it even start with your system. If I remember right a friend of mine didnt even know the geforce expierence thing exists so it cant be that neccesary.

 

 

 

The Geforce Experience is only needed for driver updates realistically, the functions it provides do not enhance gaming in any way whatsoever, it can and in my opinion should be disabled/uninstalled as it is known to cause problems with games especially DX9 games.

 

None of those things worked because of preexisting settings, I could never get into windows safe mode and all of those things required me to be there. Hitting any number of f8 or any other things as the computer was starting up other than DEL to enter EFI BIOS never worked. So I reinstalled Win 7 from disc instead, which lost me everything on that drive and seems to have resulted in one of my internal HDDs going missing as I can't find it, and I can't connect to the internet. It's connected via cable to the router, the same router that this computer is connected to as I'm making this post... gah.

 

 

The pre-existing settings were held in your BIOS battery, removing this would have likely solved your issue, or helped to some degree at any rate, HDD going missing could mean that some settings in BIOS have changed or the technician (if you took it to one) knocked the cables loose, the internet issue could possibly also be resolved by going into BIOS, but if your unsure then it can be daunting, If you would like help you can take pics of all the settings on every page (Do not change any settings for now) and post them up somewhere and I or anyone else who wishes to help can take a look.

 

Check that your cables to your hard drives and motherboard are all securely attached (pull them loose and firmly reattach them).  The issue could have been that in the above "jiggling" to get the gpu in, the technician might have loosened a connection of your HD, which eventually worked all the way loose, and that is what caused windows to freak out.  It kept looking for a drive that just wasn't there...... 

 

If the cables had been loosened by the jiggling then the system would likely not have booted up as far as it did.

 

 

Check that your cables to your hard drives and motherboard are all securely attached (pull them loose and firmly reattach them).  The issue could have been that in the above "jiggling" to get the gpu in, the technician might have loosened a connection of your HD, which eventually worked all the way loose, and that is what caused windows to freak out.  It kept looking for a drive that just wasn't there...... 

 

5 months or so after I installed the GPU, and right after I used a uncertified program to disable a bunch of old drivers as well as nVidia Experience then restarted? That seems rather unlikely.

 

I do not have the technical expertise to mess around inside my computer, I would need to put it in merely to put more RAM in it. I learned how to do these things in a course about 20 years ago, of which I remember only not to discharge static electricity into the hardware, and I do not trust myself with a 2000 USD (well 5 years ago) PC that I spend more time with than I do anything else in my life.

 

 

All you have to do is rest your bare arm on the Chasis of the case and make sure that you ONLY touch the hardware with the hand which is not earthing you to the tower, I taught myself how to work with pc's and now I'm completely at ease working on my £1500+ pc

PC's today are kind of like lego blocks, they can only be put together one way and if you remember to either wear an Anti Static Wrist Band, or rest your hands on the Case Chasis then you'll never have any issues, any questions feel free to PM me

 

 

Final Edit

Some users reported success with the "Nvidia Backend" by following the advice in this link