Hi there,
I recently purchased an EVGA Geforce 280 GTX along with an OCZ 1010W PSU for my system, to replace a damaged 650W PSU and geforce 8800 ultra.
After installing the PSU, all voltage readings to the motherboard seemed to be correct, so i went ahead and installed the 280. Everything was working perfectly, however at random times while playing a game, the game would suggenly lock up (screen freeze) for around 5-10 seconds, then unfreeze, but with highly reduced FPS (60 -> 20 ish), and sometimes graphical glitches. For example, it happened twice while playing crysis; approaching a village, and when the vtol on the assault level opened. At both of these times, i noticed graphical glitching, such as what i can only describe as a 'red veil' over everything.
Oddly enough, this could be fixed by tabbing to windows, and then back to the game. The game would, however, freeze up for a few seconds before letting me resume play, but the glitching was gone and the FPS had returned to normal. The problem thereafter was that upon quitting the game and entering windows, windows did not respond to any actions, and suddenly the video froze. I could hear an error pop up, but could not see it as the video was frozen..... the strangest thing is that windows was still fully operational, but i had a frozen image on my screen. I could even shut it down with [start -> up -> enter -> right -> enter].
This is an extremely strange problem, the likes of which i have never seen before. I'm doing everything i can think of to try to find the cause and remedy, but i'm adept with computers at best, and starting to draw blanks
System info:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Asus Commando motherboard (stock BIOS ver.): http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=307&model=1480&modelmenu=1
Corsair Dominator ram PC6400 DDR800 (4x 1gb)
OCZ PSU 1010w: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/127855
EVGA Geforce 280 GTX: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147809
Additional info:
I installed nvidia driver 177.41 after installing the 280, and the errors occured while running this driver. I have just downloaded and installed nvidia driver 177.83 from the evga driver site, and will test this tonight to see if it has solved the problem (i hope to god its only a software fault). If not, i'm pretty much fresh out of ideas
Someone had mentioned checking the voltage rails to the graphics card, but i have no idea how to do so, and have been unable to find out how thus far.
any help would be greatly appreciated, as i only have a few days to return this card if it is somehowbuggered.
Many thanks in advance.
I recently purchased an EVGA Geforce 280 GTX along with an OCZ 1010W PSU for my system, to replace a damaged 650W PSU and geforce 8800 ultra.
After installing the PSU, all voltage readings to the motherboard seemed to be correct, so i went ahead and installed the 280. Everything was working perfectly, however at random times while playing a game, the game would suggenly lock up (screen freeze) for around 5-10 seconds, then unfreeze, but with highly reduced FPS (60 -> 20 ish), and sometimes graphical glitches. For example, it happened twice while playing crysis; approaching a village, and when the vtol on the assault level opened. At both of these times, i noticed graphical glitching, such as what i can only describe as a 'red veil' over everything.
Oddly enough, this could be fixed by tabbing to windows, and then back to the game. The game would, however, freeze up for a few seconds before letting me resume play, but the glitching was gone and the FPS had returned to normal. The problem thereafter was that upon quitting the game and entering windows, windows did not respond to any actions, and suddenly the video froze. I could hear an error pop up, but could not see it as the video was frozen..... the strangest thing is that windows was still fully operational, but i had a frozen image on my screen. I could even shut it down with [start -> up -> enter -> right -> enter].
This is an extremely strange problem, the likes of which i have never seen before. I'm doing everything i can think of to try to find the cause and remedy, but i'm adept with computers at best, and starting to draw blanks
System info:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Asus Commando motherboard (stock BIOS ver.): http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=307&model=1480&modelmenu=1
Corsair Dominator ram PC6400 DDR800 (4x 1gb)
OCZ PSU 1010w: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/127855
EVGA Geforce 280 GTX: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147809
Additional info:
I installed nvidia driver 177.41 after installing the 280, and the errors occured while running this driver. I have just downloaded and installed nvidia driver 177.83 from the evga driver site, and will test this tonight to see if it has solved the problem (i hope to god its only a software fault). If not, i'm pretty much fresh out of ideas
Someone had mentioned checking the voltage rails to the graphics card, but i have no idea how to do so, and have been unable to find out how thus far.
any help would be greatly appreciated, as i only have a few days to return this card if it is somehowbuggered.
Many thanks in advance.