New Nvidia Graphics card starts giving me an "Out off Range" error. Looking for help.

[ruroni1030]

Hi Community.,

I bought a new EVGA GeForce GTX 960 at the end of November and while the card has been a bit of a pain in the rear to set up and install it was a welcome and much needed upgrade.

About an hour ago I installed The old Republic on my pc and when I tried to run it, I got this Out of Range error. I couldn't switch back to my desktop so I was forced to restart my computer to which I still got the error if I tried to start it normally. I did some digging looking for possible fixes and I've tried the following:

* Control Panel/Device manager/Disable GTX960

* Completely uninstalling the drive and reinstalling it

* Letting windows fix any issues

Nothing has worked and I am getting extremely frustrated mainly because I have a 100% failure rate with this company when it comes to their graphics cards. While I do like the performance increase the card gave, it really doesn't mean anything if it does this a month into owning it.

Now I was two seconds away from taking this thing out of my PC and looking to chew off the head of the unfortunate Nvidia rep that I am going to speak with but I decided to calm down and ask the community. A thousand cool heads are better than one hot head. So my question is this.

Is there anything I can try, or maybe something I've overlooked to see if I can fix this issue.

I don't have an extra monitor to test the card on, and my system specs are as follows.


AMD Phenom II X4 965 processor 3.4ghz
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
8GB DDR2 RAM
GeForce GTX 960 graphics card

If you need any more information about the system specs just let me know and thanks for everyone who can bring some insight to this problem

 

[R_1]

do you have an tv you could try it on, anything with an hdmi port? Can you go into the BIOS? can you gone into safe mode? does it display anything in safe mode or are you getting the same error? my experience with out of range errors is when the resolution gets changed to one the monitor cannot display.

 

[ruroni1030]

do you have an tv you could try it on, anything with an hdmi port? Can you go into the BIOS? can you gone into safe mode? does it display anything in safe mode or are you getting the same error? my experience with out of range errors is when the resolution gets changed to one the monitor cannot display.

I can get to bios and safe mode. Now I am able to disable the driver in safe mode or at least I was able to until a few seconds ago. For some reason the computer won't start now.

 

[ruroni1030]

do you have an tv you could try it on, anything with an hdmi port? Can you go into the BIOS? can you gone into safe mode? does it display anything in safe mode or are you getting the same error? my experience with out of range errors is when the resolution gets changed to one the monitor cannot display.

Alright I am back on my PC. I had to do a system restore just to be able to get on in safe mode. Now to answer your question yes I can hook it up to a television with an hdmi cable. I will try that to see if it works and report back to you.

 

[ruroni1030]

do you have an tv you could try it on, anything with an hdmi port? Can you go into the BIOS? can you gone into safe mode? does it display anything in safe mode or are you getting the same error? my experience with out of range errors is when the resolution gets changed to one the monitor cannot display.

I hooked the computer up to a spare HDMI television as suggested and it worked with no issues. I'm guessing my computer monitor just cant support the video card it'self. It's a shame it's only a couple years old, in fact it's the same age as this television. Thanks very much for your help. At least I know I don't have a bum card.

 

[R_1]

do you have an tv you could try it on, anything with an hdmi port? Can you go into the BIOS? can you gone into safe mode? does it display anything in safe mode or are you getting the same error? my experience with out of range errors is when the resolution gets changed to one the monitor cannot display.

I hooked the computer up to a spare HDMI television as suggested and it worked with no issues. I'm guessing my computer monitor just cant support the video card it'self. It's a shame it's only a couple years old, in fact it's the same age as this television. Thanks very much for your help. At least I know I don't have a bum card.

 

[SMAZ]

do you have an tv you could try it on, anything with an hdmi port? Can you go into the BIOS? can you gone into safe mode? does it display anything in safe mode or are you getting the same error? my experience with out of range errors is when the resolution gets changed to one the monitor cannot display.

I can get to bios and safe mode. Now I am able to disable the driver in safe mode or at least I was able to until a few seconds ago. For some reason the computer won't start now.

start computer in low graphics mode, during startup options enable vga mode and it should start in lowest resolution and you can select appropriate resolution from control panel, settings would n saved on next restart

Edit: here u go, found a link
https://www.winhelp.us/low-resolution-video-vga-mode-in-windows.html