On 25 January 2015 at 15:10, Rohan McLeod <rhn@jeack.com.au> wrote:
Not clear to me that the above, eliminated possibility that,
 the Nvidia GeForce GT 640 Windows driver update;
some how corrupted the installed Debian/wheezy driver ?

The grub boot menu displays fine, and I am rather sceptical that memtest could be corrupted in exactly the same way.
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