[SOLVED] newbie trying to get NVidia Video Card Working in Linuxmint

[nbob]

Hello. I just bought a new pc. It has plenty of hard drive space and ram with a 2.6GHz processor.
I'm trying to run a dual-boot with Windows 7 and Linuxmint.

I need some help as to how I go about installing my video driver. I have tried combinations of the following:
-clicking on the taskbar icon that says "restricted drivers are available" and enabling the drivers
-going to Software Manager/Drivers and choosing to install "NVidia 3D Drivers"
-Going to the Nvidia site directly and downloading/installing their driver.

My efforts so far have only resulted in the following behavior:
- The screen changes from color into grayscale and becomes unresponsive except to close it out
- The screen freezes up completely forcing me open up a terminal to kill the offending process (which turns out to be firefox)

One other note. It may be a coincidence but each time the screen froze up on me was after I tried to log into "Last Pass" (a firefox addon for password management). Could an add-on cause all of this to happen?!

Thanks for the help

[nbob]

I figured it out. Last-Pass was causing my screen to lock up. I had to register under a new identity for Last-Pass and it didn't crash. Then I signed out/signed in with my previous identity.