I read quite a few people having this problem so long story short.
Got my spanking new EVGAGTX 460 about a week ago. During first install locked up at win7 welcome screen. Thought no bigger, install new drivers. So turns out a number of GTX 460 cards are locking up on older motherboards for some reason.
I have a pretty modern system (quad core 2.83ghz, 8gigs ddr2 ram, win7, Asus P4PQ-E, 550watt ANtec PS).
The system would just hard lock up, sometimes randomly playing videos, games would "load" but fail to load, it would take quite a few resets to get it back to win7. I could play games like BC2 for hours without a problem, but running F@H would lock up after a hour or so, playing a video. Very weird behavior because it was so random.
Evga made sure power supply was right (it was), etc and told me they been having some people complaining of such problems.
So if you have something like this happening, its not a driver thing, its a bad card you should just replace. EVGA said if the next card does not work they will just issue a refund. I say all this, because lots of cards have a limited replacement time period, and because issues are so random, don't hesitate
I put in my "old" evga GTX 260 core 216 and all is well again till i get replacement.
Got my spanking new EVGAGTX 460 about a week ago. During first install locked up at win7 welcome screen. Thought no bigger, install new drivers. So turns out a number of GTX 460 cards are locking up on older motherboards for some reason.
I have a pretty modern system (quad core 2.83ghz, 8gigs ddr2 ram, win7, Asus P4PQ-E, 550watt ANtec PS).
The system would just hard lock up, sometimes randomly playing videos, games would "load" but fail to load, it would take quite a few resets to get it back to win7. I could play games like BC2 for hours without a problem, but running F@H would lock up after a hour or so, playing a video. Very weird behavior because it was so random.
Evga made sure power supply was right (it was), etc and told me they been having some people complaining of such problems.
So if you have something like this happening, its not a driver thing, its a bad card you should just replace. EVGA said if the next card does not work they will just issue a refund. I say all this, because lots of cards have a limited replacement time period, and because issues are so random, don't hesitate
I put in my "old" evga GTX 260 core 216 and all is well again till i get replacement.
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