My GPU's dead incoming?

[Mossen]

Well, i there...
So a few days ago i started having this problem with my drivers stop working...
Yesterday while playing it just rebooted completely random and again a few minutes ago.
I updated the driver to the latest yesterday so now the screen doesn't freak out anymore, but the drivers still stops working... And the pc reboots...
It's an ancient GTX 480.
Anyone can help? Thanks 🙂
- If any information is needed please tell me.
- Mossen

 

[4asute6bez10]

Hey, some people have problems with the newest nvidia drivers. So I suggest you to download DDU and delete your current drivers completly, then download nvidia's 355.xx driver.

 

[Mossen]

Hey, some people have problems with the newest nvidia drivers. So I suggest you to download DDU and delete your current drivers completly, then download nvidia's 355.xx driver.

Hi there, thank you, but I've already tried, and they did that on the 355 drivers too 🙁
So i don't really now what to do at this moment :/

 

[bignastyid]

Have you checked the cards temps?

 

[Mossen]

Have you checked the cards temps?

Yea, it runs at 40, celsius. It can get EXTREMELY hot, but it also reboots in normal state when I'm just surfing on Chrome.

 

[bignastyid]

Could be your psu giving up.

 

[Mossen]

Hhhhmmmm... I don't hope so, i changed it like half a year ago 🙁

 

[Mossen]

Hey, some people have problems with the newest nvidia drivers. So I suggest you to download DDU and delete your current drivers completly, then download nvidia's 355.xx driver.

So, I just went all the way back to 353.62 (I think it was either 62 or 63), and now it just went crazy like this: http://imgur.com/Sfw9cyk
All black and just a little bit of Hamachi visible. Nothing happened until i rebooted, and i still get the not responding messages 🙁

 

[bignastyid]

Either a failing card or a psu issue. Whats the make and model of the psu?

 

[Mossen]

Either a failing card or a psu issue. Whats the make and model of the psu?

It's a Energon 750W. I've heard about people having bad times with them, but my last one worked for 5 years without problems. I don't hope it's the PSU though, because i changed it just recently within half a year.

 

[bignastyid]

Inter tech units are very poor and its a good possibility its feeding the card dirty power and that can cause all sorts of stability problems and can end up damaging hardware.

 

[Mossen]

Inter tech units are very poor and its a good possibility its feeding the card dirty power and that can cause all sorts of stability problems and can end up damaging hardware.

So, the problem just got much worse within the last 30 minutes.
Now these boxes are appearing everywhere.
http://imgur.com/ExL58Fk

 

[fluffa]

old card new drivers, I would try and get hold of some old drivers (I would aim for at lest a year old. this will prove if the card its self is faulty. also check for the good old dusky card syndrome

 

[bignastyid]

That looks like a failing gpu in the pic. Trying older drivers wouldnt hurt.

 

[Mossen]

Okay, so the GPU is dead. I already miss it.
So i went for my old 8500 and that one still works great :-D So far.
Thank you all for the help