GTX580 CRASHING ALL DRIVERS :S

[ayorkshirelad]

my GTX580 is crashing constantly(as of today), windows will tottally dissapear then return with an error message saying the kernel/driver has crashed and has now recovered'.... it can do it repeatedly for a solid 5 minutes or just freeze the screen time and time again with no message or just not do it for a while then start again.

The GPU is only a few months old, i have never OC'd it or messed with it in any way what so ever.THIS HAPPEND ONCE A FEW WEEKS BACK ALSO, at the time i just turned the computer off overnight and it was fine ever since.

The drivers were the same today as a few weeks ago so, as reinstalling them doesnt work, i thought id have a check if there were newer ones available...BEHOLD NEW DRIVERS TO FIX MY PROBLEMS.....wrong. they have the same problem : /

I do manually uninstall every Nvidia program associated with my GPU, then manually remove ALL files and folders THEN run CCleaner several times to make sure its all gone before i either reinstalled drivers the 1st time or installed the new drivers today.

The graphics options i use in games are far lower than an abusive setting to overly strain the card so i doubt im doing much to hamper it.

Any ideas what my problem is??

 

[Shayper]

I think you are gonna have to reinstall windows mate, I've heard that's the only way to solve that. If that doesn't fix it I think you are gonna have to RMA

 

[Rroff]

I do manually uninstall every Nvidia program associated with my GPU, then manually remove ALL files and folders THEN run CCleaner several times to make sure its all gone before i either reinstalled drivers the 1st time or installed the new drivers today.

Could be the problem - for a long time I've found that its best just to install new nVidia drivers over the top of old ones and CCleaner, etc. tend to break things more often than they fix these days with regards to drivers. Or it could just be a failing GPU.

 

[drifting]

Step 1: re-install Windows to see if the problem persists.
Step 2: underclock the graphics card to see if the problem persists. Run folding@home gpu client for 10 hours to verify the stability.