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GTX 970 doa?

nataku17

nataku17

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New gigabyte gtx 970 came Friday and after installing it my machine keeps randomly restarting. It took a good hour the first time then it just kept happening.

Took it out gave the pci slot a clean put it back in and played shadows of mordor for about 30 mins before it went off again. Sometimes it restarts before even loading windows..

I have unistalled old drivers and installed the new. Updated mobo drivers too.

My spec
Intel i5 2500k @ 4.5
Asus p8p67 pro mobo
Antec 750w psu about 4 years old

Is it my psu? Would have thought 750w was enough or is my graphics card doa?
 
didi you try uninstalling old NVidia drivers with ddu (display driver uninstaller) then do clean install
 
yh true,its hard to say if its faulty or psu,those cards don't use much juice anyway

might be better to just rma it for another,it shouldn't restart in the bios

try and borrow spare psu to try with
 
nataku17 said:
That I didn't do but it restarts when in the bios too drivers wouldn't be loaded then would they?
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This!

You didn't uninstalled driver properly before installed GTX 970 because it left behind drivers with device ID loaded for GTX 570. After installed GTX 970 it caused software, driver and device ID conflicts so it didn't loaded the correct GTX 970 driver.
 
I did try removing the overclocking but it didn't fix it. Could the drivers really be the issue? I unistalled them by going into device manager selecting the graphics card and clicking uninstall drivers.

I did make an attempt to reformat but it shut off before I booted from cd.
 
Sorry to double post. Completely removed overclock and used ddu. Restarted computer and it went off before I could even install the drivers so it's either my psu (checked it's 3 years old not 4) or the graphics card is a dud. Going to rma see what ocuk say
 
Remove card. Select graphics to run from CPU connect vga/dvi to motherboard and uninstall drivers with DDU.

Install physical card and install drivers.

The attempt at a format may have borked your whole install.

A 3 yr old PSU should be fine. I ran a 7990 on a 650W ANtec that was 7 years old (before bronze silver gold efficiency ratings were about) fine for months.
 
Everything works great with my old card.

I didn't actually get to attempt a format as the computer restarted before I even got to boot from dvd so I didnt want to risk it.
 
Woodsta888 said:
OK so can you uninstall drivers with old card in, then install new card, and then driver?
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thats what I tried this morning, put old card in, used DDU to remove drivers put new card in and before I could even install the drivers for the new card it was restarting
 
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