Is My Asus 480GTX Dead After One Week!? PLEASE READ

[privateeye0]

Hey guys,

I just bought and built my first system from Overclockers last Tuesday(23/3) and everything has worked fantastic until last night!

I ran the Metro 2033 benchmark with everything cranked up. The benchmark completed no problem and I got very good results. However, about 30 seconds later the screen went black and my monitor said there was no signal from the graphics card. I actually caught the temps at about 78degrees just before the swith off. My PC itself was still on so I had to power down using the power button.

Upon restart the computer booted no problem but was using the onboard VGA adapter instead of the 480GTX. I then went to device manager which says the device has error 43. I've gogled this error for hours and tried every solution but still doesn't work. Clean install, rolled back drivers, used driver sweeper etc etc.

The computer basically is refusing to use the graphics card and always switching to the onboard VGA. The only other problems I have is blue screen SOMETIMES when I boot with new 480 drivers and some blue lines across screen when bios is booting. The blue lines don't appear if I'm booting from the VGA.

So, simple question, do I need a new graphics card or anything I'm missing?

PS. I have done NO overclocking whatsoever and the card has played everygame thrown at it max for the last week

specs:
Asus GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.40GHz
Asus M4A78LT-M 760G (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard
Corsair XMS3 8GB (4x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz
Coolermaster GX 650W Power Supply
Windows 7 Home Premium
Titan Fenrir Evo
Cooler Master 430 Elite

 

[Robbo]

Do you have another computer you can try the card in?

 

[jinxpad]

it could be that you have a dodgy card but 78oC is well within safe temperatures for a 480. Mine used to hit 90+ before I switched to watercooling and never had a problem with it.

Did the system come pre-assembled? Or was it a bundle where you still had some setting up to do?

If it was pre-assembled by OCUK and you haven't done any tinkering with the inside of the case then just contact OCUK tech support and I'm sure they'll sort out the problem for you, and indeed, have you tried the Graphics card in another computer?

 

[privateeye0]

Cheers for the swift replys. I don't have another cpu with a suitable power supply. Only an ancient fujitsu siemens pc with a x800.

I built the computer myself from scratch. i never messed with ANY settings. I only installed the latest 266.58 NVIDIA driver for the 1st couple days then changed to the 267.24 BETA as the 266.58 has problems with Dragon Age II. I have been playing crysis 2, Bad Company 2 maxed with zero problems. It was just after trying the Merto benchmark to see what I got maxed. The only other thing that happened was that my Razer mouse was disabled after I restarted after the crash. The Asus board has the latest driver aswell. (0802 - August 2010)

the Motherboard only has one slot so I can't try the card in another aswell.

 

[jinxpad]

Hmmmmm, have you tried reseating the card? Take the card out give it a good once over and see if there is any noticeable damage to the a card, theres a possibility maybe that something during the installation finally gave way or something?

give it a look tbh. Also, try testing the card in a friends PC if you can.

 

[HeX]

Blue lines doesn't sound good, looks like the GPU just gave up the ghost.

 

[littlepuppy]

Maybe the memory

 

[privateeye0]

Ok, i'll try take it out and re-install from scratch after looking over the card.

I also just noticed I can still see slight feint blue lines on my screen even though I'm using the VGA adapter at the moment.

Maybe the memory

Do you mean the memory on my card or my RAM?

thanks!