Soldato
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Given that the effects are quite severe in your case I say return the card it seems the most likely fault. You said also it's been going down hill over last few weeks.....
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Think I'll be returning the card this weekMy brother had this. I advised him to upgrade to latest drivers but he said he still had the problem.
Anyway he was due for an upgrade so we upgraded his whole PC, i5 ivybridge etc. Afterwards still had same problem. He even told me he had used driver sweeper.
So I went to have a look at his PC. Checked programs and features and no nvidia driver listed. Odd I thought. All he had was Geforce Experience, Physics, and nvidia audio.
This is not right. Checked event viewer and I could see the nv cpl dll was crashing and also something to do with Geforce Experience.
So as it happened that day nvidia released the 331 driver. Downloaded it. Did an install and ticked the clean install option. Did custom and only installed Nvidia Driver and Physix (as quite frankly geforce experience is ****).
Rebooted PC. Checked programs and features showed the right listing.
Its now been 7 days and no driver not responding crash.
So what I am saying is do a fresh clean driver install and put the 331's on and dont install any of the garbage with it.
also just checked gigabyte website and your motherboard has a F7 bios dated 5/8/2013
Support PCB ver 1.0/1.1
Improve PCIE-E compatibility
might be worth a punt,
on another note I know this is OT but I also updated my brothers motherboard bios and it was a 2014 one just released. Kinda a cool seeing 2014 date on the bios post screen. Well I thought it was.
Anyway he was due for an upgrade so we upgraded his whole PC, i5 ivybridge etc. Afterwards still had same problem. He even told me he had used driver sweeper.
So I went to have a look at his PC. Checked programs and features and no nvidia driver listed. Odd I thought. All he had was Geforce Experience, Physics, and nvidia audio.
This is not right. Checked event viewer and I could see the nv cpl dll was crashing and also something to do with Geforce Experience.
So as it happened that day nvidia released the 331 driver. Downloaded it. Did an install and ticked the clean install option. Did custom and only installed Nvidia Driver and Physix (as quite frankly geforce experience is ****).
Rebooted PC. Checked programs and features showed the right listing.
Its now been 7 days and no driver not responding crash.
So what I am saying is do a fresh clean driver install and put the 331's on and dont install any of the garbage with it.
also just checked gigabyte website and your motherboard has a F7 bios dated 5/8/2013
Support PCB ver 1.0/1.1
Improve PCIE-E compatibility
might be worth a punt,
on another note I know this is OT but I also updated my brothers motherboard bios and it was a 2014 one just released. Kinda a cool seeing 2014 date on the bios post screen. Well I thought it was.
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^ Display Driver Uninstaller
Use that in safe mode (you don't need to uninstall the driver first) and disconnect your computer from the internet (to stop auto-installation of drivers).
Restart into Windows as normal. Install driver for your card then reconnect to Internet and restart.
Use that in safe mode (you don't need to uninstall the driver first) and disconnect your computer from the internet (to stop auto-installation of drivers).
Restart into Windows as normal. Install driver for your card then reconnect to Internet and restart.
Might be an idea to do a nice fresh install of your os and start fresh, and hope its been worth the trouble, never rain but it pours
I've done it about 3 times lol
Yeah, it's unfortunately, sorry, that the driver clean up didn't work and seeing as you've reinstalled Windows many times already, I imagine another reinstall isn't going to fix the problem entirely aside from the current boot failures.
However, going by your first post, your problem only started once you got the Nvidia card? New build? Did you have an ATI card beforehand?
However, going by your first post, your problem only started once you got the Nvidia card? New build? Did you have an ATI card beforehand?
you didnt need to do any of that.
You should have gone into programs and features. Anything that had Nvidia or Geforce at the front uninstall
reboot pc
install new drivers choose custom, tick perform clean install then just tick physx and driver install nothing else.
Bobs your uncle.
you are still going to have the problem IF you just install everything with the nvidia driver after a fresh os install. Only choose physx and driver. I have not seen anywhere you state what you actually do at driver install.
You should have gone into programs and features. Anything that had Nvidia or Geforce at the front uninstall
reboot pc
install new drivers choose custom, tick perform clean install then just tick physx and driver install nothing else.
Bobs your uncle.
you are still going to have the problem IF you just install everything with the nvidia driver after a fresh os install. Only choose physx and driver. I have not seen anywhere you state what you actually do at driver install.
Okay, well I have another fresh install of the OS on this current HDD (instead of my SSD, which may also be faulty.) What you're saying is I should just install the drivers and physx without the clean install option selected?
I had a similar issue with a new build. Only old part I used was 560 ti as was waiting to see what A.M.D were about to unleash.
3 months of blue screen, mouse freezing, random black screens and that dreaded error message.
Was a driver issue pure and simple.
Resolved finally four weeks ago (just as well, was driving me insane and could not pick up a new card due to stock issues with A.M.D).
I suspect you may just have to wait until the green team sort the problem. If I had been able to r.m.a I would have done so. Drove me nuts and it affected work as well as play.
One weird thing I did find towards the end. I stuck my razor copperhead mouse in a gaming laptop, uninstalled the mouse software from main machine and stuck in a Microsoft basic mouse.
Issues stopped much to my surprise. I bought a steel-series kana as i thought may have been an issue compatibility issue with razor software /vid card drivers and win 8.
Installing the steel series mouse software got the exact same issues.
You're problem may be different but if you are running a gaming mouse and have something more basic lying around, worth a try, its not much hassle to do.
I suspect the issue may just relate to drivers and win 8. You may have to wait for a fix. Can take months. Certainly did in my case.
Some drivers work better than others. Updating and testing out new ones is a pain as it can get seriously bad with some.
My machine is working perfectly now. All it took was a driver that finally worked.
Unfortunately took months for a working driver release.
3 months of blue screen, mouse freezing, random black screens and that dreaded error message.
Was a driver issue pure and simple.
Resolved finally four weeks ago (just as well, was driving me insane and could not pick up a new card due to stock issues with A.M.D).
I suspect you may just have to wait until the green team sort the problem. If I had been able to r.m.a I would have done so. Drove me nuts and it affected work as well as play.
One weird thing I did find towards the end. I stuck my razor copperhead mouse in a gaming laptop, uninstalled the mouse software from main machine and stuck in a Microsoft basic mouse.
Issues stopped much to my surprise. I bought a steel-series kana as i thought may have been an issue compatibility issue with razor software /vid card drivers and win 8.
Installing the steel series mouse software got the exact same issues.
You're problem may be different but if you are running a gaming mouse and have something more basic lying around, worth a try, its not much hassle to do.
I suspect the issue may just relate to drivers and win 8. You may have to wait for a fix. Can take months. Certainly did in my case.
Some drivers work better than others. Updating and testing out new ones is a pain as it can get seriously bad with some.
My machine is working perfectly now. All it took was a driver that finally worked.
Unfortunately took months for a working driver release.
About the psu I've had other problems highlighted in this thread http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18572060 namely the windows booting problems. How would the psu also affect this?