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Installation Help!!!

I'll have to try taking the memory out tomorrow as it's late, so i'll post my results tomorrow afternoon, thanks for the tip :)

Is it likely to be a faulty stick of ram if it's only started doing this when the new card is in?

I'll try tomorrow anyway, Thanks very much! :)
 
No probs and I also found that problem/soloution on another site. No idea how come this would be the case but if this fixed it for two other peeps, nothing to lose in trying.

Good luck and let us know how this works out.
 
Just an update, I retried the card with only one stick of memory, but it made no difference at all. Still getting the "Attempt to reset the display driver and recover from timeout failed" blue screen and my PC resets. As it is causing my monitor to lose signal right before the crash i thought that maybe the card was trying to send an incompatible image signal to my monitor and therefore getting no response and timing out, so i tried to boot windows in low video mode ( i think it's called) but the same thing happened. On a whim also turned my tv off/ disconnected it whilst booting and that didnt help.

Should i just get in contact with overclockers? could it just be a dodgy gfx card i've bought?
 
The only thing left to do is try your card in another pc and try another card in your mobo.

Is the error Nvlddmkm.sys on BSOD? I had twin frozr 3 570 and it broke my heart for 2 weeks doing all sorts of weird **** on start up like yours. Can you see the glowing windows logo sign when you start or does it show the old xp progress bar on the bottom?

My screen started going green before I sent it back, the card was faulty and I tried everything! Even re-installed Windows 3 times. If you re-install windows after trying the card thing and it still happens then defo RMA it.
 
I think i will start an RMA,

I could try it on a different Pci slot, but i'd have to take hard drives out for that :S, having said that Running Man, no the old card works totally fine in the same slot. It's only the new one that has issues.

chipachap, yes the error is nvlddmkm.sys . I usually see the windows glowing logo yeah, the only time i see the old xp bar is when windows takes it upon itself to do the recovery/repair thing, which never gets anywhere. I havent reinstalled windows yet, do i lose anything if I do that? I think I will start an RMA and see if i can get a replacement and see if that works :)

Thanks very much guys!
 
Yeah it sounds like a faulty card, is it a factory OC model or a reference?

A few people on here, me, and a couple of people i know have gotten faulty factory OC'd GPU's that were giving weird errors like this. Can't say for sure they all have the same fault it could be a coincidence!

Do you have a SSD in one of your PCI-E slots? There might be a hardware conflict, if there is anything in any other slots i would remove them and try it again just to be sure, last thing I'd want anyway is to pay 50 euro for P+P two ways if it wasn't faulty!
 
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