Question BSOD when trying to install a GTX 460/560 on Windows 7 ?

[silversmithy]

Well I'm not having much success setting up an old PC to use as a testing rig. It is older, but did work fine a few years back with a GTX 750ti. Now it just keeps crashing.

Specs:

Nforce 680i SLI lt motherboard

GTX 460 and also tried GTX 560, both I believe showed error code 43 in device manager even though driver 391.35 downloaded successfully.

Seasonic Prime Ultra 650W PSU. Using 2 separate cables not single piggy. Uh oh that's a whole different discussion.

Single DVD.

This happened before and I thought it was a bad PSU because I tried other drivers and nothing worked. The 460 I know nothing about, but the 560 worked fine in a different PC prior. I had to reinstall Windows 7 ultimate to get system to even boot properly. I installed a working HD 6450 to utilize the HDMI port so I'd have video, but now when I go in and set it to boot from DVD to just reinstall Windows 7 again I get a black screen if death with the msg: Windows failed to start. A recent hardware on software change may have caused this. Try to fix by... and gives me several options including the last which is reinstall Windows 7. Towards the bottom it shows status 0xc0000225,and then an unexpected error has occurred.

Everytime I boot from DVD with my official, authentic windows 7 ultimate DVD it crashes. I'm wondering now if the HDD is toast or what's going on.

Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[silversmithy]

Well I went ahead and cleared the CMOS by switching the jumper on the motherboard, and now startup repair has worked and I am now able to boot PC normally. I will run DDU again, and try to reinstall an old HD 6450 that I know worked fine and see what happens. If that works than I guess I'll try the 460 or 560 again but I am a little hesitant considering what has recently happened

 

[Wuwu]

Error 43 is usually dead GPU. (Likely PCI-E issue too)

 

[silversmithy]

The HD 6450 works fine. I know this is a low power graphics card which does not require any extra power cables like the 460/560. I just don't understand why this is happening.

 

[silversmithy]

The odd thing though us that the GTX 560 works fine in a different PC with the same HDD. It's almost like the GTX 460/560 are not working with this nforce motherboard? I don't know.

 

[Wuwu]

The odd thing though us that the GTX 560 works fine in a different PC with the same HDD. It's almost like the GTX 460/560 are not working with this nforce motherboard? I don't know.

The nForce board is really outdated in comparison to the release of these GPU's anyway.

Try Windows XP, this board is an XP era board.

 

[silversmithy]

True. The other thing though is that I was using a GTX 750Ti in this exact PC with Windows 7 and there were no issues at all. It's like everything goes down the tubes when I install the driver? Not sure what's going on.

 

[silversmithy]

Also I reinstalled an HD 6450 in this exact PC yesterday in the same pci-e lane that I tried the 460 and 560 and it is working fine. It's a puzzle.

 

[Wuwu]

Also I reinstalled an HD 6450 in this exact PC yesterday in the same pci-e lane that I tried the 460 and 560 and it is working fine. It's a puzzle.

GPU's have their own firmware bios on the GPU, not all cards will be compatible.

I still think you should attempt Windows XP.

nForce boards were always finnicky anyway.

 

[silversmithy]

Got it. Thank you very much. It's just odd that the 750Ti and also I forgot a GT 1030 worked in this rig, but not the 460 or 560. Must be an incompatibility issue with this board like you mentioned. Not sure what else it would be. Thanks for all your help.

 

[Tac 25]

if a 1030 and 750ti works, then it's compatibility issues or the 460 is dead.

have you tried the 460 on another board?

the 460 is a decent gpu during it's time, and can do a little bit of light gaming even today. I used a 460 during the gpu crisis.

 

[silversmithy]

Actually tried to yesterday, but ran into being unable to install OS via DVD. It says boot device not found or not working. Something like that, but I cannot remember exactly. I went back to legacy in the BIOS and made sure the DVD was the first to boot. I also set the DVD as boot in one time quick boot via f12. I reset to UEFI and no success either. I'm using my genuine MS Windows 7 ultimate DVD as well.

 

[rambo919]

Uhm..... is the main problem not perhaps attempting to install pre-UEFI GPU's on a UEFI OS?

I remember the switchover sometimes being flakey driver wise at the time.

Stick to legacy if you want to use old GPU's.... why anyone would even attempt UEFI on win7 is a mystery to me anyway.

 

[silversmithy]

Tried legacy, but tried switching to UEFI because I was unable to install os with legacy. Cannot install with UEFI either at this point. Using my Windows 7 DVD it states boot device failed every time.

 

[rambo919]

Maybe the DVD or ISO it's based on is just bad? On the other hand it might be some kind of HW failure. You should be able to install with one GPU or onboard and just replace the GPU afterwards..... you don't need to have the intended GPU in during install.