GTX 770 driver install problems.

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As per title folks.

It's driving me up the wall

Fitted it yesterday & W7 32bit point blank refuses to load the drivers for it. (not strictly true, the drivers have loaded a couple of times, but when I've gone to open a web browser or run a load on it the screen goes blank & i've had to reboot)

Trying a fresh install & latest driver as well as driver from windows update (that failed to load all but once too)

I suspect it may be the card at fault as it shows a series of white lines on the screen before it goes into the menu (Pic coming soon) but the W7 screen is fine .

I go into system & its comes up as code 43 on the driver.

Spec:

Intel Core i5 4570s.

Gigabyte Z97X-UD5H Latest bios (I think)

Samsung 850 Evo Basic

Western Digital Red 3 TB.

TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB

Superflower Golden Green HX550

Thoughts?

 

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The disks are from what I had lying around from installs on family PC's. The only 64 bit copy I had went on dads recent build. The plan was to install w7 32bit & do the W10 upgrade, grab the product key & then do a fresh install of W10 64 bit.

pic:

This is my 1st Nvidia card in 8 years (I fancied a change) all but two of several AMD cards previously have been fine. I should've gone for the R9 270X on offer if I knew this was going to happen.

 

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OK thanks. I'll post the pic in the CS section & see what OCUK have to say.

 

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I've just sent them a webnote, the card is ready to go back & i'll see if I get an RMA notification today. The card is MSI.

 

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Update folks.
The card was faulty & a replacement was supposed to be on its way. That was almost 4 weeks ago. I assumed that MSI would've sorted out a replacement by now, but my patience is wearing a little thin. I've sent OCUK a webnote & they said the card is EOL. OCUK have the overclocked version in stock & I said that I would be prepared to pay the difference or get a refund.

I think I've been more than patient & been reasonable but OCUK have had my money for 5 weeks now & I've got nothing to show for it. I'm not a gamer TBH & its not like I need a card straight away, but at the same time I would like the matter closed.

Thoughts?

 

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The RMA dept have contacted me & offered me a GC equivalent to what I paid & to the value of £10 over.

So I've gone for this:

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Asus GeForce GTX 950 Mini 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £129.95

Total: £139.85
(includes shipping: £9.90)
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Given that it is for media duties really & not for gaming, I picked it due to that fact it has HDMI 2.0, so 4K media playback in the future shouldn't be a problem should I choose to go down that road. The fans come on only during load too, so it should suit the task I intended it do do better even though it will be a drop in gaming performance. Its predecessor was a HD7850 so its an upgrade of sorts even if the result isn't what I intended originally.

I was looking to get an HDMI 2.0 card at some point in the future anyway.