Gigabyte 1070 G1 black screen crashes

[dyevest]

Just bought a Gigabyte 1070 G1 Gaming, my motherboard is a GA-Z97X-UD7 with a 4790k running windows 10 pro 64bit, as soon as i installed the card I instarted getting random crashing black screen and buzzing from speakers while browsing watching YouTube, just normal usage. I installed back my , GTX 770 and everything went back to normal, so my first thought was i had a bad video card. So i tested the card in another computer i have with an Asus board and a 2500k cpu and windows 10 64 bit fresh install. It never crashed, tested gaming too, no problem. Just to be sure i tested the card in a friends computer, similar rig to mine. Tested gaming, stress benchmarks and watching a lot of videos, Autocad and photoshop, worked perfectly. I tried again in my computer but in a different pci slot PCIeX8, the computer doesnt crash but display artifacts in mp4 videos, weird behaviour. I put back the card to the PCIex16 and crashes again. If i uninstall the driver and use generic windows driver crashes wont happen. This is list of things i have tried without succes:

- Tried 3 different drivers using UDD first
- Updating Motherboard Bios
- Bios default settings
- Fresh Windows 10 reinstall
- Switch PSU with my other rig 650 and 700W coolermaster.
- Tried another monitor
- Tried another output int he card (dvi, hdmi)
- Disconect all extra hard disks and extra stuff.
- Disable onboard audio
- Link state power managment off in power settings
- Look all over the internet for solutions

At this point in losing my mind. I hope someone can shed some light on the issue.

 

[Jayhawker32]

How old is your motherboard? It sounds like an issue with the PCI-e slots.

 

[dyevest]

Is not that old, 2 years at most. But if it were the pc slots that are not working well, the gtx 770 would crash too right?

I just did another test by putting the card in the third pcie slot, Pcie4x. And its working fine. Is this slot decreasing the performance of the card?

 

[Jayhawker32]

I can't get the page to load right but this may help answer your question. Ultimately yes the PCI-e x4 isn't ideal but as long as you can run that it's better than nothing.

https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GTX_980_PCI-Express_Scaling/

 

[dyevest]

Thats seems to be the only solution, the only thing left is to test another motherboard in my rig or test with future drivers. Thanks for the reply.

 

[CombatRespawn]

I have the same problem with my 1070 G1 and Gigabyte Gigabyte GA‑Z97X‑Gaming 7. Except that I haven't tried it in any of the other slots yet just the PCIe x 16. I guess I need to try it. If anyone figures out what is going on TELL THE PEOPLE haha. I myself along with many other 10 series users seem to have forums on this issue.

 

[dyevest]

I have the same problem with my 1070 G1 and Gigabyte Gigabyte GA‑Z97X‑Gaming 7. Except that I haven't tried it in any of the other slots yet just the PCIe x 16. I guess I need to try it. If anyone figures out what is going on TELL THE PEOPLE haha. I myself along with many other 10 series users seem to have forums on this issue.

Have you tried your card in other computer too?

 

[CombatRespawn]

I have the same problem with my 1070 G1 and Gigabyte Gigabyte GA‑Z97X‑Gaming 7. Except that I haven't tried it in any of the other slots yet just the PCIe x 16. I guess I need to try it. If anyone figures out what is going on TELL THE PEOPLE haha. I myself along with many other 10 series users seem to have forums on this issue.

Have you tried your card in other computer too?

So this might be interesting to you, but while I have not tried in a new machine, all of my components are brand new. As well, I had this problem several days ago and changed out my new motherboard for another different model NEW motherboard, with the same issue persisting.

 

[dyevest]

I have the same problem with my 1070 G1 and Gigabyte Gigabyte GA‑Z97X‑Gaming 7. Except that I haven't tried it in any of the other slots yet just the PCIe x 16. I guess I need to try it. If anyone figures out what is going on TELL THE PEOPLE haha. I myself along with many other 10 series users seem to have forums on this issue.

Have you tried your card in other computer too?

So this might be interesting to you, but while I have not tried in a new machine, all of my components are brand new. As well, I had this problem several days ago and changed out my new motherboard for another different model NEW motherboard, with the same issue persisting.

More than interesting is really discouraging, a few days ago i ordered another motheboard , the Gigabyte GA‑Z97X‑Gaming 5, believing it could be the cause, now im really worried í´m going to have the same results. Im going to take the card to my friends house again right now for another longer test. His motherboard is the Gigabyte Z97P-D3. The reason Im taking the card there again is because it is a Pci e 3.0 board. My other rig where I have tested the card is a pcie 2.0. Can you tell me your full specs so i can compare them with mine, did you try another pcie port on your board?

Thanks.

 

[CombatRespawn]

I have the same problem with my 1070 G1 and Gigabyte Gigabyte GA‑Z97X‑Gaming 7. Except that I haven't tried it in any of the other slots yet just the PCIe x 16. I guess I need to try it. If anyone figures out what is going on TELL THE PEOPLE haha. I myself along with many other 10 series users seem to have forums on this issue.

Have you tried your card in other computer too?

So this might be interesting to you, but while I have not tried in a new machine, all of my components are brand new. As well, I had this problem several days ago and changed out my new motherboard for another different model NEW motherboard, with the same issue persisting.

More than interesting is really discouraging, a few days ago i ordered another motheboard , the Gigabyte GA‑Z97X‑Gaming 5, believing it could be the cause, now im really worried í´m going to have the same results. Im going to take the card to my friends house again right now for another longer test. His motherboard is the Gigabyte Z97P-D3. The reason Im taking the card there again is because it is a Pci e 3.0 board. My other rig where I have tested the card is a pcie 2.0. Can you tell me your full specs so i can compare them with mine, did you try another pcie port on your board?

Thanks.

Yeah I tried another PCIe slot but same results. I think it has to be some software/driver issue with a specific situation (ie. a Nvidia 9 or 10 series with a certain driver and version of windows 10 etc.) Ive been playing in BIOS and Nvidia control panel trying to fix it. But ultimately, I don't know yet what the deal is yet. And BTW here is my forum just in case you want to check it as it develops too. Try and get all the perspectives possible you know.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3143728/display-windows-boot-installing-drivers-gtx-1070.html

Specs:
GA-Z97X-Gaming 7
GeForce® GTX 1070 G1 Gaming
Intel i7 4770k Haswel
Crucial 500GB SSD Boot Drive and 1T WD Black HDD
EVGA 750W GQ
AND Hours of Spent Time Trying to Fix This Damn Problem

 

[dyevest]

Well i just want let everyone know that changing the motherboard fixed myproblem, i dont think my old motherboard is faulty, it worked perfectly with my other video card, it just doesnt work with this one, crazy stuff.