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Nvidia 780 GTX - not able to get to Windows

mirexx

mirexx

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OK, so here's my story and any help/advice is very welcome :-)

Over the weekend I upgraded my PC running single watercooled Nvidia 580GTX with the brand new watercooled Nvidia 780 GTX (KFA2) connected in SLI.
Windows 7 started booting up and got stuck on the Win logo screen (I could see some odd lines flicker in the middle of the screen for a fraction of second).
After a minute the PC restarted and the same problem repeated. So I started Win in a safe mode without any problems, uninstalled Nvidia drivers from the control panel,
ran driver sweeper and installed them again. It didn't help and the same problem was back. So I uninstalled the second graphic card and tried the first one in
different PCIe slots but without any success - I could get only to Windows logo and when the Windows wanted to switch to Nvidia drivers (I think) it all went down.
So I uninstalled the graphic card and tried the other one - and hey, WIndows started and everything seemed OK. I tried to play Bioshock Infinite and after
an hour the game crashed and Windows started reporting a message saying "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" every 10 seconds or so. After a restart
Windows didn't started and got stuck on the logo screen. And when trying to boot Windows with this card in a safe mode I can see some artifacts (green dots) on the
Windows logo screen but after it displays the Win desktop (it boots OK in safe mode) the artifacts are gone.

I had to put back my old 580GTX and everything works fine.

Could these two 780 GTX cards be defective or do I need to upgrade my MOBO or try a different PSU?
Or were the waterblocks on the cards not installed correctly and the card is shutting down to prevent
overheating?
Also I read some posts on various forums about the current Nvidia drivers killing the graphic cards...

My setup:
Motherboard: Asus Maximus IV Extreme P67 B3 DDR3 LGA1155 1 REV3, lastest BIOS
CPU: Intel Core I7 2600K / no OC
Memory: 4 x Kingston DDR3 4GB PC12800 1600MHZ HYBERX
Memory Latency: 9/9/9/24
PSU: Thermaltake PSU 1500W Tough Power

Many thanks,
Miro
 
It's doubtful you would have to update your mother board if the 580 works. At worst they would run slow, they wouldn't not work.

Temps are easy to check, install MSI After Burner, switch it on and watch the temps, maybe even play a game, or you could just run furmark or something.

The PSU is a possibility, not that it's not enough, but that it may be faulty, but probably not likely.

The RAM could be a possibility, that can do odd things.

For me though I would start by removing 1 780 and just running on one, do tests with that and then move onto the other. Then both. If they seem fine then check the ram and then CPU.

Programs you will need:

MSI After Burner - Monitor temps on and off test - If you have an android phone you can get some software that integrates with After Burner and reports live temps to your phone/tablet.

Furmark - To stress the GPUs

OCCT - Run it on a burn test on each GPU and then your CPU. You can also do your RAM with this, although I prefer...

Memtest 86+ - Test your RAM with it, ideally overnight if not longer.

See where you go from there.
 
Its more than likely a bios issue with the motherboard. There seems to be a ever growing number of people with similar issues where they can't boot into windows properly or run games properly while using a 780 or titan card. Seems a biod update will fix it thats if there is an update for it.
 
So I updated absolutely everything I could and tried the cards one by one in different slots but nothing seems to work. Reading other posts and forums it seems one or more memory modules are not working correctly. Unfortunately I think I will have to call support in the morning and RMA the cards :-(

Thank you guys for you posts and help.
 
when you say you are running the latest bios - are you running 3604 published 17/05/2013?

worth checking

it is very unlikely that you have two DOA cards

so many people have reported DOA cards only to find they work with the latest bios that I would put money on that being the problem and not you being the unluckiest person alive to have both cards DOA
 
straxusii said:
This is totally not the case, it is very common for new cards to need a bios update to be fully supported or even work at all.
Click to expand...

Then I stand corrected.

I have never heard of that though, and I find it a little crazy. What if your board is end of line and has no more updates? I know you could say that about anything PC, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that updating your BIOS to get a GPU working is common knowledge and you don't tend to see warnings about it when buying cards.
 
that is why people come on the forum :D to learn from people who have had this problem before them

a quick google shows that Asus were one of the first if not the only P67 manufacturer to do a uefi bios - which is usually where the problem lies... the fact that they did a bios update for the OP's board right around the time the Titan was released would indicate that this is the issue (I had to do the same with my Titan's, and in fact the "most recent" bios on the gigabyte website was not even good enough, I had to download a beta bios from the forum)
 
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