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GeForce 262.99 crashing constantly?

Pastryfighter

Pastryfighter

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Got my lovely Palit GTX 580 yesterday, upgrading from a pair of GTX 275s. Plopped it in, installed the drivers, everything is happy apart from my poor Soundblaster X-Fi which has now decided that it doesn't exist. (GTX 580 is handling the sound now, which is a pain in the ass)
I hop into Metro 2033 to see my first glimpse of DirectX 11 goodness. Video options maxed out, 1920x1080, new game. Climbing up the ladder, nearly falling off, etc. Get outside about 5 or so minutes in, then a black screen, Metro bombs out to a driver failed message, error 4. Tried a few other games and got the same problem, both DirectX and OpenGL.
So I figure it might be crap left over from the old drivers, boot into safe mode, uninstall the drivers, run Driver Sweeper, wipe out everything to do with Nvidia from the registry and computer, redownload the new drivers and reinstall.
Drooling, I dive into Metro 2033 again. Oh, hello there error 4!
Browsed the interwebs a bit, found a few "fixes" for the error 4 issue. At best its now crashing after half hour rather than 5 minutes.

Now I'm just stuffed. Any suggestions?
 
Fresh install of Windows 7 might do the trick.

Make sure all of the power plugs are in properly and if that doesnt work check if the PSU is supplying enough juice to the GPU with a multimeter.
 
jrwagh333 said:
Does it say that the Nvidia Driver has crashed, but has successfully recovered?
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Yeah, the error 4 message pops up in a seperate box just after the application or game has kicked the bucket.

nkata said:
Remove the soundblaster and drivers?
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Already done. Tried reinstalling the drivers for it to start with, then after that didn't work, nuked everything to do with it.
 
I was getting the "Nvidia driver xxx has stopped responding but recovered" error with my setup , 2 x 470's in SLI

It was fine in games but happened when playing flash video and in the end I tracked it down to 1 of the cards being faulty.

Have since changed the card and had no further problems.

Ofc, it may be a different reason for yourself, so check all possibilities
 
Too many ppl jump on the power issue straight away. If it can power two 275 it can manage 580gtx. I don't think it's the power supply. Try a different driver.

What are ur amps on the 12rail btw
 
Skyrocket said:
Too many ppl jump on the power issue straight away. If it can power two 275 it can manage 580gtx. I don't think it's the power supply. Try a different driver.

What are ur amps on the 12rail btw
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It's a long shot but also easy to try, just switch the 8-pin and 6-pin connectors and try.

It could even be a overclocked CPU problem or a driver issue.
Point is that it's not known so trying different things is the way to go.
 
I get the feeling that Dutch Guy could be right here, I remember getting the same driver failure a couple of times with the old GTX 275s though same as Freakbro, it was mostly in Flash video.


Skyrocket said:
Too many ppl jump on the power issue straight away. If it can power two 275 it can manage 580gtx. I don't think it's the power supply. Try a different driver.

What are ur amps on the 12rail btw
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The 12V rails are at 40A. (which means absolutely sod all to me! :D)
 
Pastryfighter said:
The 12V rails are at 40A. (which means absolutely sod all to me! :D)
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Amps x Voltage = Watts

If you have two 40A rails of 12V it means the PSU can deliver 80 x 12 = 960W on the 12V rails which is plenty.

But what you must try to achieve is get the CPU and mobo on one 12V rail and the GTX580 on the other rail.
 
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