My GTX580 recently stopped working normally - other than potential HW failure (it IS a 8 year old card), nothing changed recently that would've caused this to happen when it did.
Using the miniHDMI output. No overclocking, etc. - running standard configuration.
Running Win7 SP1 64, i7 3770K @ 3.50GHz, 16GB RAM.
Never had an issue with it. Then one day when I was watching a video on Twitter, the screen went black (I believe the audio died too at that point), but not completely blank. There were a bunch of matrixed, faint, little white dots scattered across the screen. Not over the whole screen, but probably covering 2/3 of it.
So I hard rebooted, booted in normal Windows mode, and it completed the Windows boot process, but when it tried to load the GUI, it only shows me the faint white dots.
Rebooted in Safe Mode, and that works fine. I uninstalled the drivers, then let it restart in Normal boot mode, where the default Standard VGA Windows driver loaded itself, and does work (the default 800x600 driver).
Then I tried fresh re-installing the latest drivers from the EVGA website (391.35), let the setup run, let it reboot, and the same behavior ensures - the white dots only instead of a logon screen.
I also tried the same process with the drivers from the NVIDIA site directly, but they appeared to be the same, and sure enough, resulted in the same behavior (white dots).
(As a last resort, I tried uninstalling & clean re-installing the older drivers I was running when the initial black screen occurred (306.97), but same result w/ white dots.)
-Sometimes- when trying to boot in Normal mode, I get a BSOD instead of the white dots. The file named in the BSOD is nvlddmkm.sys. Its occurance is random though - no rhyme or reason when I get the dots vs when I get the BSOD. The dots are more common though. Plus, the BSOD is not only blue & white - it appears distorted with multiple vertical columns of light blue dashes across the screen, about every 2 inches wide. The white letters also appear slightly distorted and some are tinged pink. I can post the actual BSOD if anyone thinks it'll be helpful.
Any thoughts on where to go from here?
Thanks!
Using the miniHDMI output. No overclocking, etc. - running standard configuration.
Running Win7 SP1 64, i7 3770K @ 3.50GHz, 16GB RAM.
Never had an issue with it. Then one day when I was watching a video on Twitter, the screen went black (I believe the audio died too at that point), but not completely blank. There were a bunch of matrixed, faint, little white dots scattered across the screen. Not over the whole screen, but probably covering 2/3 of it.
So I hard rebooted, booted in normal Windows mode, and it completed the Windows boot process, but when it tried to load the GUI, it only shows me the faint white dots.
Rebooted in Safe Mode, and that works fine. I uninstalled the drivers, then let it restart in Normal boot mode, where the default Standard VGA Windows driver loaded itself, and does work (the default 800x600 driver).
Then I tried fresh re-installing the latest drivers from the EVGA website (391.35), let the setup run, let it reboot, and the same behavior ensures - the white dots only instead of a logon screen.
I also tried the same process with the drivers from the NVIDIA site directly, but they appeared to be the same, and sure enough, resulted in the same behavior (white dots).
(As a last resort, I tried uninstalling & clean re-installing the older drivers I was running when the initial black screen occurred (306.97), but same result w/ white dots.)
-Sometimes- when trying to boot in Normal mode, I get a BSOD instead of the white dots. The file named in the BSOD is nvlddmkm.sys. Its occurance is random though - no rhyme or reason when I get the dots vs when I get the BSOD. The dots are more common though. Plus, the BSOD is not only blue & white - it appears distorted with multiple vertical columns of light blue dashes across the screen, about every 2 inches wide. The white letters also appear slightly distorted and some are tinged pink. I can post the actual BSOD if anyone thinks it'll be helpful.
Any thoughts on where to go from here?
Thanks!