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New GPU installed but not working

jaysus

jaysus

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Bought a Gigabyte 470 SOC. Installed (including both power connectors) with no drama.

Ran PC, went on Gigabyte website, downloaded correct drivers, crashed once then a restart sorted it and they seemed to install second time around. Restarted, fired up Black Ops and the prompt about 'you've changed something, shall we adjust settings' came up and I accepted. It crashed on the loading sequence. Restart, repeated. So I went and downloaded the nVidia website drivers. Rinse and repeat. On one occasion I fired up Black Ops and instead of allowing it to change my settings I declined, ended up in game and changed everything to max (1680x1050, 16x AA etc) and the game played fine but I wasn't getting any sound. Went out of game, played about with the Realtek thing and tried again. Game crashed on loading sequence. Same with Source based games.

I'm sure theres something I'm doing wrong but I'm not sure what. The only thing I can think of is that whilst I'm running Win7 HP (32/64bit) and am downloading 64bit drivers, the screen (Samsung 2232BW:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/monitors/review/2008/04/28/Samsung-Pebble-SyncMaster-2232BW/p1

will only run at 32bit (according to nVidia control panel etc.) So should I be installing 32 bit drivers?

Or am I missing something else?
 
I'm assuming the full rig is in your sig. Always get the drivers from the Nvidia website. The screen runs 32bit, but that's for colour, not the actual OS (both are completely different things), so you will still need 64bit drivers anyway since you have Win 7 64bit. What temperatures is the card getting at?
 
What temperature does it reach on max load if you can check?
Just realised I misread a bit of your first post, can you check if your Windows is 32bit or 64bit? Just click start then right click computer then properties, and it'll tell you there. Is it a HP version of Windows?
 
Okay, ran furmark for 4 minutes and it hit 87. Then I heard a beep and bottled it, as I've just noticed I managed to disconnect two of my case fans when fiddling around.
 
Just had a thought: the drivers are showing as 8.17.12.6099. Is that what they should be?

If not, any ideas why downloading and running the latest drivers from the nVidia website isn't updating properly?
 
Bump...anyone? I'm completely out of ideas, and desperately want to get this sorted.

ETA: Furmarked again, ran into the high 70's and fan speed slowly increased to around 60%, but not as much as I'd expect. Have returned the CPU to stock multiplier and it's still doing it. I don't know what else to do.

ETAA:

Okay, I'm pretty confident now this isn't a GPU problem - I think it's a problem with Steam. It was detecting that my GPU had changed (and didn't recognise it) and each time I fired the game up it asked me if I wanted to accept it's recommended settings. For once I went in and said,

'No,' and set them myself. It ran fine. For some reason BO single player sound doesn't work now, but I'll suss out why later. Multiplayer works fine, and miraculously all my other games seem to run fine now. Temp's are well within limits whilst gaming. And wow! BO is beautiful with a decent GPU.

Crisis averted. Phew. £230 is the most I've ever spent on a single component, and I'm relieved it doesn't seem to be at fault.
 
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It seems I spoke too soon. TF2/Napoleon TW/BO all ran fine when I posted my last update but today is the first opportunity I've had to play and games and everything I try is crashing within seconds of the game loading screens coming up. There seem to be two common denominators - Steam and the 470.

Thats it. I'm completely out of idea's. Where do I go from here?
 
On the off chance anyone has any similar problems at some point in the future, it appears that OC Guru (the app that comes with the GPU) may have been causing some sort of a conflict somewhere. When I stopped it running in the background games started working again.
 
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