System completely unusable

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ShivP

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Hi there,

I really need some help with my somewhat new system in my sig (+ a GTX 760). I build the stuff in my sig a month or two ago, running integrated graphics and it ran without many issues, the issues mainly came a week or so ago, after installing my new graphics card, the 760. I was running the same installation of windows as before, and installed the graphics card. The first couple of boots went fine, after installing the drivers. However, I then ran into problems. The first boot I logged in, and all that loaded in was asus gpu tweak. The rest of the screen was black, no win explorer or anything. Though fair enough, a hard reset should fix it. I restarted and was able to log in, albeit slowly. The next restart had the same problem, but just after the windows loading animation. Black screen, next few restarts had a blue screen. Reinstalled windows, installed all drivers etc and then I couldn't use add or remove programs to uninstall something, can't remember. Tried to reinstall windows again, and installed everything. Seemed mostly fine. However ran a game and got a weird thing where I'd get a few frames through, then the screen stopped for a few seconds, then a bit more, then stopped. I got the game to close, and the problem carried on. Then I got "nvidia drivers have stopped working and successfully recovered." Everything was then smooth. Ran that msi stress tester, similar problem but no driver crash. Reinstalled drivers numerous times, and tried a downgrade of drivers too. No change, so just ran it for general use but no gaming. Seemed okay, but got home today to try some advice someone gave me on the graphics cards forum. I downloaded the recommended tool, and restarted to enter safe mode. However, windows system repair started up. Restarted numerous times, same problem. I'm pretty bored and annoyed of having problems now, so just leaving it on my desk to get a proper fix. Can anyone help me with these problems, it must be the graphics card, but could it be the motherboard, or the SSD as well?? Any help is massively appreciated.
 
safe mode ?

If your computer has a single operating system installed, press and hold the F8 key as your computer restarts. You need to press F8 before the Windows logo appears. If the Windows logo appears, you'll need to try again by waiting until the Windows logon prompt appears, and then shutting down and restarting your computer.
 
hmmm my bet is power supply or ssd. Do you have a spare PSU?

My pc was having similar issues, tested everything and it turned out the power being delivered from the PSU was pulsing between 12 volts and 24 volts on the 12 volt rails according to my multi-meter. Changed to a new PSU and and now its rock solid.
 
Hopefully it is haha, much easier to replace than anything else. Especially the motherboard... though why would it randomly become dodgy as soon as the graphics card was put in?
 
if its sandforce controlled then there are issues on intel sata ports

its not the drive just poor support for the controller

could be down to mb bios for the gpu? idk
 
Well it doesn't use a sandforce controller, so shouldn't be that. Bios is at the latest (stable) release but not the beta that someone linked. This still wouldn't explain the boot problems after the gpu was installed though.
 
I wouldn't have thought SSD was the cause with those symptoms, but a hard reset or two could cause problems with the SSD. I would suggest a PSU issue too, although a 600w should be fine for that card it might have pushed a unit on the edge of failing over the edge, especially if you've put a fair bit more heat into the case than there was before.

I've had a psu (OCZ funnily enough) go in the past that had the 12v line down by just 1v, and maybe some others were low too (I can't remember) and this would cause major problems when asking the system to do anything serious. Just random but regular failures.
 
Also, you might want to double check that the gpu is slotted in correctly too, and if it isn't in the main pci-ex slot that you haven't got it in a 4x slot or that the slot isn't set to a lower speed in the bios.

You did connect the pci-ex power connector too? And disabled the onboard graphics in the bios?
 
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you will get gpu issues if the bios isn't supporting it fully

all you can do is flash latest beta and see,if it doesn't cure it simply flash back to the latest final bios

the ssd should be ok then if its not sandforce,im just suggesting things to try
 
Okay, well I'm going to try with this old 80gb hard drive for a while and see if it helps. If not, the bios test will be next, then probably the psu (have no access to a spare though :/)
 
Okay, BIOS is updated, still not using nvidia drivers yet. Should I install just the latest drivers and PhysX and see if it helps?
 
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