GTX 480 HELP PLEASE

aldhogg

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It'll boot into the initial login screen, but after putting in the password, it goes into the "Welcome" screen with the little loading circle spinning. It'll either freeze at this point (cursor frozen too) or it will go into a black screen and freeze up moments later.

I've tried all the available driver revisions for the 400 series, all of which present the same problem. Between each driver installation, I uninstalled and removed them with Driver Sweeper in safe mode. For the time being, I've reverted back to the GTX 295 which works perfectly.

After some research, I didn't find any definite answer for this specific problem. There was someone else with the same exact problem, but no solution as of yet. There was a solution for a similar problem where the boot time was really high and performance was severely degraded. That involved remapping memory values or something. But seeing as I couldn't even make it past the welcome screen, I'm thinking it's a different problem.

I doubt there's any fix for this short of nvidia fixing the issue in their next driver revision. I'm thinking this might be some obscure issue/conflict with another piece of hardware, which I would replace if I knew what it was.

Computer is NOT OC'ed

Any help please...

Specs

CORSAIR XMS3 12GB (6 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model HX3X12G1600C9 G

Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor BX80601920

ASUS P6T LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

Rosewill BRONZE series RBR1000-M 1000W Continuous@40°C, 80Plus Bronze Certified,Modular Cable Design,ATX12V v2.3/ EPS12V,SLI Ready,CrossFire Ready,Active PFC"Compatible with Core i7, i5" Power Supply

EVGA 015-P3-1482-AR GeForce GTX 480 (Fermi) SuperClocked 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
 
What version of windows are you using? and have you tried the card in another PC to confirm it is an issue with the drivers and not an issue with the card? Maybe you bought a dud?
 
Verify that your power connections are all there and good. It sounds like the problem starts when the card starts getting 3d requests.

It the 8 pin psu connector installed? It helps to power the pci-e slots.

Otherwise, you may have a defective card. EVGA support is supposed to be very good; open an incident with them.
 


Windows 7 64 bit,

currently working on getting this card into another computer with similar specs.
 


Checked all pins, and voltage is good...yeah EVGA will be hearing from me soon again...
 
Today.... Tested all rails all volts/amps fine, tested video card in 4 other computers with all different power-supply.

Hope an RMA fixes the issue, if not this card is going into a brick wall.
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