EVGA 470 gtx black screen issue

[marktime]

Installed the latest 260.99 drivers Monday assuming the black screen problem was now a thing of the past. Three days later I get a black screen for the first time in over a month. Irritating beyond belief.

Interesting read over on the EVGA forum http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=586183 where the problem seems to be connected to the card conflicting with the onboard HD sound controller.

I'm going to leave these drivers on and see if I get any pattern forming and then try the HD sound fix if it keeps reoccurring. Otherwise it's back to the old beta drivers that gave me weeks of trouble free use.

 

[rounddodger]

If it's OC related I'd be straight on to OcUK for a refund as it's not fully stable.

 

[marktime]

If it's OC related I'd be straight on to OcUK for a refund as it's not fully stable.

OC not an issue for me as the card's running at stock and I've even dropped my whole system back to normal clocks over the last few weeks.

As mentioned previously I doubt if RMAing would get anywhere as it's such a sporadic problem and never actually occurs during gaming, they'll just run their standard batch of tests and send it back as ok at my expense.

 

[Arcane]

I've never had this exact problem with my 470 SLI, although I had a recurring black screen crash that was PSU related a while ago due to me overloading it.

 

[-)G(-Sawyer]

I received my POV GTX 470 from Overclockers on Friday and its been a nightmare with this problem. Random black screens on Windows 7 login, Internet and system browsing.

Such a shame because when I am lucky anough to run a game it's great, played F1 2010 for 4 hours today with no problems.

 

[Dbrennan9]

I'm experiencing this problem too - on a system <one week old.

System Specification
- Case: Cooler Master HAF 932
- Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W
- CPU: Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz overclocked to 4.00GHz
- Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: Corsair H50 CPU Cooler
- RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
- Graphics Card: MSI Geforce GTX 470
- Sound: High Definition 7.1 Onboard Sound Card
- Optical Drive: 22x DVD+RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter

Windows 7 home

I've RMA'ed the card only to be told if, on my system (which I've sent back as a whole) and OCK-UK's - I'll be charged for delivery or, a new card put in of the same type, or switch to an ATI card (which I definitely do not want) or, have to pay for an upgrade to a 570.

From research, it seems to either be a motherboard conflict with this GPU, or driver related - either way I'm dissatisfied.

 

[Skyrocket]

when installing your new components guys always restore your overclocks.
Then start from scratch.
New components can cause driver/irq conflicts.

From my experience going to 470SLI from a single 580GTX and single 5870. I had to pump some serious VTT juice to my mobo.

 

[Rroff]

Remove the nVidia HD Audio drivers and then do an reinstall of the graphic drivers untick the HD Audio bit and ticking the "clean install" option.

Does sound like the hardware is faulty and possibly doesn't like working under a certain temperature - which has been noticed before with a small number of 470 cards - generally only a problem if your watercooling.