Is my GTX 660 dead?

[a Lilac]

While I'm able to plug a monitor into the graphics cards ports and have it work, I'm unable to install nVidia drivers, and the graphics card doesn't show up in Device Manger or HWMonitor. Because there's no drivers, my screen appears in an extremely low resolution.

If my gpu isn't dead, what do I need to do to remedy my problem?

 

[ingtar33]

sounds like a dying or dead gpu.

 

[a Lilac]

sounds like a dying or dead gpu.

I thought that might be the case, but if it were, wouldn't my monitor have absolutely no output? Also, is it normal for this kind of card to burn out after only eight months of use? My games aren't very intensive: League of Legends, occasional CoD, etc.

 

[ingtar33]

you can try to uninstall all the drivers and try to reinstall... but yeah. looks dead. i had a hd5870 go, i could see it in the device manager but whenever i tried to install it i got an error message from the installer telling me the hardware was incompatible with the drivers. tried by hand too... that didn't work either.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

list your pc's full specs including psu make and model and motherboard. what OS are you using? have you added any other hardware lately? try using system restore to restore windows to a point when the card was working.

 

[a Lilac]

Build:
GPU: EVGA GTX 660 2GB
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-Z77-DS3H LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
PSU: Rosewill Stallion Series RD500-2DB 500W ATX12V Power Supply
CPU: Intel i5-2500k Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz)
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model
HDD: WD Blue 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive: 3.5 Inch, 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache - WD10EZEX
OS: Windows 8 64 bit


I tried a system restore, to no avail. No hardware has been added recently