Vista & 8800GTS G92

[PCTC2]

I have my 8800GTS in my rig in sig running Vista x64.

It was running stable for the past few weeks @ 780/1950/1000DDR, however, now the display driver fails periodically and has trouble correctly displaying Vista's Aero.

It is watercooled and runs around 36C idle, and never goes about 60C for load. The PWM block stays cool to touch.
It is now at stock and it still fails. I have the latest 169.25 Vista64 driver.

Any solutions? Or what is the problem anyways?

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Re-install a different driver?

 

[PCTC2]

Does the 8800GTS G92 work with any other drivers?

EDIT: Plus, why would it suddenly now become unstable?

 

[angry hampster]

try the betas. Haven't heard any complaints:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_169.28.html

 

[Dacalo]

Corrupted driver?

 

[JustaGeek]

Uninstall the 169.25, and install it again.

 

[Spike]

I would agree on the re-installing drivers. I use the same card also on Vista 64 with no issues at all. You could also try the beta's but it sounds like there is another issue there.

Maybe check to make sure something did not come unplugged inside your case, I would hate to see what these cards would do without enough juice...

EDIT* Just as a note, I have only done minor OC's on my 8800GTS as it does not seem to want to oc much so for now it's running at the stock 670.

 

[BFG10K]

Plus, why would it suddenly now become unstable?

Maybe your overclock has permanently damaged the hardware?

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: PCTC2
Or what is the problem anyways?

nVidia makes garbage drivers, that's the problem.

I've experienced nV driver related issues off & on ever since getting my GTX.

My present fun is that about 10-20% of the time when alt tabbing in UT3, i get a black screen for a while, & then a BSOD due to the lovely Forceware they put out.


Of course, i can't go back to an earlier version, since then i have even worse issues in UT3.

Anyway, try different drivers i'd say, but eh...

 

[PCTC2]

Yeah. It still likes to flicker and then the driver fails. Tried 3 drivers. I can't believe it would have permanent damage from the overclock because I've never had problems with that. Maybe I'll RMA, but I need to buy thermal pads so it would pass eVGA's requirement of returning it with stock cooling. It's s**t crap luck.

 

[n7]

Well, sounds like you were running a pretty high OC, but what you're describing is nothing new.

Go onto the nV News forum or the nvidia forums & you can find threads hundreds of pages long with the issues you describe...

Is it happening for you all the time, or just in certain games?

 

[PCTC2]

All the time, even in Aero running nothing.

 

[PCTC2]

It's my card. I'm hoping to get an RMA. I tried it in XP and it does the same thing, except XP cannot recover like Vista can...

Damn. I was looking forward to COD4 tonight.