GTX460 Problems

[Unheard]

So I picked up a brand spanking new Gigabyte GTX 460 1gb last night. Popped it in, loaded the drivers, and fired up L4D2 multiplayer. Played for 20 minutes or so and then hardlock.

Rebooted, cleared CMOS, windows locks @ login screen. Rebooted into safe mode w/o issue. Uninstalled drivers, rebooted normally, and windows loaded fine.

When I reinstall the drivers, same thing. Windows locks up. I have a AMD 770 chipset that I think is the culprit based on reading similar issues.

500w PSU, 3.3ghz stock cpu, windows 7 ultimate 64bit.

Any advice before I swap this guy out for a 6850 tonight?

 

[happy medium]

Have you tried these drivers and did you use driver sweeper to get rid of your old drivers?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2146916

 

[Unheard]

The 267.24 were what I was running when I had the issue pop-up. I tried all the other listed drivers with the same result.

Edit:

And I did driver sweep.

 

[s44]

Fire up Afterburner or some similar utility and check the voltage. Gigabyte seems to be sending them out way below reference.

However, given that they seem to bump themselves back down on a semi-regular basis, I'm not sure there's a real fix without BIOS hacking/flashing.

 

[dpodblood]

Have you tried any games other than l4d? It could be a conflict with that game specifically. I had an issue recently on my laptop where l4d multiplayer would cause my machine to randomly reboot. In single player it wouldn't happen. Strange eh?

 

[Unheard]

Have you tried any games other than l4d? It could be a conflict with that game specifically. I had an issue recently on my laptop where l4d multiplayer would cause my machine to randomly reboot. In single player it wouldn't happen. Strange eh?

It also locks at the windows login, not just with in games.

 

[Unheard]

Fire up Afterburner or some similar utility and check the voltage. Gigabyte seems to be sending them out way below reference.

However, given that they seem to bump themselves back down on a semi-regular basis, I'm not sure there's a real fix without BIOS hacking/flashing.

What should the voltage be on these?

 

[hdfxst]

You might be able to find some answers in this thread http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1581660

 

[Unheard]

Well, rather than deal with the issues, I just replace the card with the one in my signature.

 

[timma]

maybe just the card problem,sent back to gigabyte service is better~

 

[tweakboy]

Try use driver sweeper as well. and use legit WHQL only. gl

 

[Arkadrel]

Sounds like you got a bad card,... RMA for another 460.

Well, rather than deal with the issues, I just replace the card with the one in my signature.

that could do it too ^-^