580GTX Black screen

[MufflesMctoffin]

Curses! that's my plan out of the window then, was going to be doing the opposite of that.
Can remember seeing a setting in the bios earlier this morning, PCIE Scectrum of something like that, said it might help Oc'ing or something along those lines if disabled, just wondering if that might increase stability?

 

[marktime]

Yeah me either, is a bit annoying, went with nvidia because I usually prefer their drivers and whatever, hopefully they sort it out in the future. Might try upping the frequency like you said Marktime see if that works, I'm sure I saw it earlier when looking through the bios, although is there a downside to this? Still makes a change from my previous computer, was an alienware m15x, that had a silly amount of problems with it haha.

You should be ok up to around 105Mhz, over this one or two people were warning about possible problems. The system my old 470 went into (i5/1156) has been rock solid for over 2 weeks now with this slight increase. Before that I tried disabling the on-card HD audio that was using the same PCI bus as the gx, which quite a few were claiming was a solution, but continued having the problem.

Believe me you have every sympathy, considering how much we pay for this stuff and to still have to spend all the time and effort involved ironing out niggling problems like this is unacceptable. Plus if you rma the card they will just run a few set tests and find no problem and return it at your expense, no doubt.

As you said the irony is these cards work perfectly fine running flat out in 3D, only to fall over like whimps when doing hardly any work. Just doesn't make sense. Has kind of put me off NV for a while until I start to hear they've at least recognised this as a problem affecting a lot of customers and offer a working solution instead of leaving us to have to do the legwork.

 

[MufflesMctoffin]

Ah thanks marktime, as I said I'll give it a go when I get back this evening, will let you know how it goes, although I'll have to be doing some internet browsing to test it as its fine under stress haha! Is a very weird issue though.
Edit: Hmmm just got back, had a bit of a scare though, computer was black screening on startup, managed to get logged on though, have updated my sound drivers with the newest ones on the Asus website and doesn't seemed to have worked, tried looking for the PCI-E frequency but I can't seem to find it in my bios, only voltages. Also tried reinstalling to a different driver (263.09) but I'm not sure if that has worked either. Will have to see what happens.
Edit: Okay tried upping the PCI-E frequency, finally found the setting in bios, went from 100 to 105 in 1mhz increments although still getting black screens, hmm am completely stumped as to what to do now, might just have to wait for nvidia to update drivers or something, bit of a shame after spending so much on building this computer

 

[MufflesMctoffin]

Been playing around with some settings in the bios the last few days, trying to get things stable, just enabled XMP on the motherboard under AI Utilities and upped the PCI-E bus to 105mhz, been on the desktop for 2 hours now and no black screen, will update if I get a black screen but so far things seem a lot more stable, think the XMP upped a few voltages too so that could be part of the solution, maybe you could try this out Bullet? see if this works for you.