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Issues with Nvidea GTX580

Craig1981

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I have recently been having an issue with my graphics card/drivers.

It doesnt happen constantly, but about once a day when I'm playing a game the screen will go black and then game will then crash. I then get the message "Display driver NVIDIA windows kernel mode driver version 280.26 stopped responding and has successfully recovered."

I thought maybe the driver needed updating, so I went and downloaded the newest version, but the problem is still happening. Looking on their forums, it seems to be happening to a lot of other people, so I'm not convinced theres anything wrong with my card.

Anyone else had this issue and managed to sort it?
 
Hi

You've got almost the exact same setup as me and mine seems to be running fine, just out of curiosity what is the temperature of your graphics card when playing games and which games cause the black screen issue?

Cheers

Chris
 
Chris said:
You've got almost the exact same setup as me and mine seems to be running fine, just out of curiosity what is the temperature of your graphics card when playing games and which games cause the black screen issue?
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Errrrrr..... I honestly dont know what temperature it is. How do you find out?

I mainly play World of Warcraft. So far its not happened on any other game.
 
Hi

Download MSI Afterburner which will show you your temperature and if necessary allow you to create a custom fan profile if it is getting to hot. When you installed the new GFX card drivers did you choose the Clean Install method?

Cheers

Chris
 
I installed that program and I'm running it while playing WoW. So far no crash but it can tend to happen totally at random. Temperature seems to be bobbing up and down around the 66 - 70 degree mark. Shows max temp has been 80.

I dont think it was a clean install. I basically went to the website, did the auto search and then installed the driver it recommended for my card.
 
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Hi

Temperatures seem fine anything under 85c should be ok, if you do get any more crashes try downloading the latest drivers again and installing them using the Clean Install option.

Chris
 
Chris said:
Hi

Temperatures seem fine anything under 85c should be ok, if you do get any more crashes try downloading the latest drivers again and installing them using the Clean Install option.

Chris
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The problem with the driver had seemingly gone away, but now it seems to have come back again, and its happening more frequently than before as well.

I've been monitoring the temperature of my card and its never overheated. How do you do that Clean Install option?
 
Hi

Download the latest drivers im using Beta 290.53 and under Install Preferences choose "Custom" and then there should be a tick box for Clean Install.

Chris
 
Thanks Chris. I ended up just completely deleting the old Nvidea drivers from my control panel and then doing a fresh install.

So far its not crashed again, whereas it was crashing repeatadly all evening before. Fingers crossed it was just the old driver that was causing me the grief. I'll let you know if I need any more help :)
 
Pre overclocked card?

Might be unstable, try using after burner to underclock it back to stock 580 settings and see if it continues to do this.
 
**Same problems and almost the same screen name lol**
It's a driver issue that nvidia can't seem to sort out, I have just returned my 560 Ti today because of this. My card was mostly doing this when web browsing or playing games that use web browser to launch eg. BF3 and the guy in the shop where I returned it said that his gtx 580 is having the exact same problems, he also told me that they have had lots of returns recently because of this. This has been addressed on the nvidia forum for a few months now and they still haven't sorted it so I returned mine before it was too late as you only get 28 days if you're not satisfied with the product (may be different at OCuk). I'm now saving some more cash and waiting for the 7950 to be released.

The latest driver I used was 285.62 and the problem was still there.

http://www.techpowerup.com/154716/NVIDIA-Investigates-TDR-Issues-Requests-Sample-Cards.html

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=215267
 
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I didn't know there is a problem with stability with Nvidia drivers at the moment?. :confused: I wonder how widespread this is?.

I'm glad you've got a refund. Now it's just a waiting game :).
 
Used to get this with an old GTX285 and more recent GTX570, different drivers and multiple Windows installs. Never got to the bottom of it
 
Did you try completely removing the old driver and doing a fresh install? That seems to have done the job for me. Would explain why I was getting the error message saying that driver 280.26 had stopped responding, when I actually had 285.62 installed. Probably was a resource conflict or something along those lines.
 
Seen a few similar posts to this recently. Had the same issues with both my 580's. Driver crashing and recovering...i sorted the problem permanently by ramping up the voltage to 1063 and the problem has never returned.
 
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