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Gigabyte GTX570 Completely Failed After updating driver ...

Buckster

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anyone had any issues with the new 326.41 ? tried to install it on my GTX570 SOC - driver installed but "display driver" failed in its installation - fine - reboot time

except - no display on reboot - none whatsoever - but I could hear PC booting up just fine

turned pc off completely, at the wall, turned it back on again nothing, booted up on the integrated HD4000 - and in bios nothing detected in either PCI-E slot ?! Tried reseating GPU - nothing. Fans just spin at 100% on GPU

took 570 out, put into the 2nd PC - nothing either. Took 4890 out of spare PC, put into the main PC - its detected fine

coincidence or driver install has done something daft ?

I'm thinking there is no real mechanism for a graphics driver to make a GPU fail ?

had it 5 months, as a RMA replacement from Gigabyte - annoying if I have to pay £25 to get it fixed (£10 to get to Gigabyte, £15 for them to return it ...(according to some on here ref new RMA process))
 
thanks - yes its under warranty till week 42 (the warranty passed on from my 480 SOC which also failed ...) - so it is in warranty - but only just
 
Had this problem recently on my gts 450 , after hours of fiddles i managed it. A. by completely whiping any nvidia stuff on my pc. B. reseating the card (And loading mobo defaults). C. luck?


Rolled back to 314.22 and wont go higher unless i get a new gpu
 
thanks murah - but card not even detected in bios :( says no GPU installed

will try cleaning the connectors tonight and re-reseating (already tried reseating a few times to no avail)
 
did you clear the cmos ? could be borked clear it for atleast 10-15 minutes and hold in front panel power button to discharge the board of power
 
cmos of what though ? its the gpu that seems to be faulty - not the mobo

tried the GPU in 2 PCs/2 mobos, on my Z77 Gene - if I boot to the integrated with the Gigabyte installed, it says no GPU installed in either PCI-E slot :(

and if I put the Gigabyte in my P5B Deluxe with Q6600 setup - I get lots of beeps on boot indicating no GPU installed :(
 
ahh didn't realise you tried in in other boards and same thing

yeah the cards faulty somehow if that's the case
 
I'll give it a clean and once over - try one last time - then RMA it

thanks for suggestions though :) much appreciated

first time I've ever had a GPU completely stop working - had GPUs with dodgey memory, flashing textures and the sorts, but never completely go wrong
 
check the power connector sockets on it,if its not being seen in bios then could be due to not getting power? idk
 
ok update

had some free time this evening - so had another go

cleaned the PCI-E connector, and now GPU gets detected - woop :) BUT crashed whenever I restart Windows 8 ... :(

so back to IGPU to uninstall all Nvidia drivers

reinstalled Nvidia drivers - and still not working :(

back to IGPU - enabled Virtu Logi

rebooted - and Bioshock Infinite benchmark, with Virtu set to Discrete GPU (I can tell its using the 570 as frame rates are what I would expect) - and all AOK !!

yet - switch back to discrete GPU - bios etc fine, but on boot into Windows, either hard locks or just reboots :(

I will try a driver sweep later - but only other thing I can think of is the display output ports or hardware drivers to those ports has failed - and when I'm using IGPU I'm not using them
 
agreed - I think thats the next step unfortunately :(

although I could try the card in my old PC -and try a clean Windows 7 install - and see if I can get at least into desktop - if I can't on a clean install, I know there must be something amiss

on my Windows 8 install I can't even get to desktop

just so odd that that works fine via Lucid Virtu - I've got afterburner working, Dishonoured, Kerball, Bioshock Infinite all working via Virtu ...

odd that the card has sprung into life after not working at all yesterday ...
 
just had a better idea

I have a spare SSD in my main PC - clean-formatted ready to at some point go into my HTPC

I'll try installing Windows 7 on there - see if I can get into desktop on the 570, and see if Nvidia drivers will install and still boot into windows etc - if so I know I need to either driver clean or clean install Windows 8

if it doesn't work - must be something still amiss with the 570

at least I've got my games working currently via LucidVirtu
 
thanks arc - just very strange set of circumstances

somethings telling me I think I should get that 7970 or 770

just if I can use Virtu I might be able to hang on till the new ATI cards ...

experimentation with new Windows installs tomorrow I think - I've spent 2 hours or so on this tonight alone :(
 
Buckster said:
crashed whenever I restart Windows 8 ... :(
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Iv'e had that before except using AMD and despite trying Nvidia and igp in the same system, I still got nothing, either a black screen, reset loop or recovery mode, it drove me nuts.

Went back to W7 and all was fine.

I'm back on W8, but automatic updates hasn't been enabled yet, apparently my symptom(which sounds similar to yours) is down to windows updates.

You could try this using your igp before you install W7:

Issue
After installing the R310 driver on Windows 8, the subsequent reboot results in a black or
flickering screen.

Root Cause
This occurs because Windows Update performed a background installation of a Release
304 driver, which requires a reboot to complete the installation. After installing the
Release 310 driver and then rebooting the system, installation of both the Release 304 as
well as the Release 310 is completed, resulting in conflicting driver binaries and the black/
flickering screen.

Workaround - Prevention
To avoid the issue, reboot the system before installing the Release 310 driver.
Alternately, you can check the driver status under the Device Manager and perform the
reboot if the Device Manager indicates that a restart is needed. Then install the driver.

Workaround - Recovery(!Keep reading below before following these steps!)(!If you don't know how to boot into safe mode on windows 8, it's different than 7 and earlier, keep reading!)
If you did not perform the necessary reboot prior to installing the driver and now
encounter the black screen, do the following:
1 Reboot in Safe Mode.
2 Uninstall the driver.
3 Disconnect from the internet and then restart the system.
4 In normal mode, install the new driver.
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https://forums.geforce.com/default/...39-re-having-black-screen-and-or-flickering-/
 
thanks - fjust managed to install Windows 7 (clean) -and voila works fine - ran Valley benchmark too

so something is busted driver wise on the Windows 8 machine, so I'll try the above etc now - thanks

still doesn't explain the original graphics card failure (complete no output, fans at 100% etc) - but least getting somewhere now :)
 
mmm re-tried deleting everything to do with Nvidia drivers off Windows 8 install

deleted the directories too, turned off windows auto driver update as well

yet still - boots to a black screen/monitor in power save ! aaargh

switching to IGPU all good - looks like a reinstall of Windows 8 then :( what a pain
 
Have you tried Windows 8 feature that resets it to a clean state? Have two options such as refresh or reset, but never tried it myself.
 
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