Super stumped on GFX problem

[skywander]

Bought a Palit GTX 980 Super Jetstream recently. Hooked it up into the com, installed drivers, all worked fine for 2-3 days. The next day, screen went black after I booted up into windows. Did a format and fresh install of Windows 7, reset mobo bios, went black again after I installed Nvidia drivers. Hong kan. I booted into safe mode, uninstalled the nvidia drivers, I could boot into windows on normal mode again but with the shitty resolutions and cannot play games with the card. Whether I use drivers from the CD, Palit website, Nvidia official site, all cannot.

Went back to RMA. They could boot into windows but the card went black after some GPU stress tests. Ok, gave me a new replacement card, which I tested on the spot. Worked fine.

Ok, went back home, put in the new card, it worked fine for the first boot and 3 to 4 sequential boots. Four hours later, powered on the comp, same problem again! Screen turned black after boot screen! I can hear the windows login chime and the shutdown chime when I press the power button but everything is black.

Any bros with any insight? Did I really kena two lemons in a row right? I thought Palit is quite good one? Or got another prob somewhere?

For ref, my specs are (all new parts except SSD, HDD and AIO)

1. Asus Maximus Impact VII
2. i5 4690k & Corsair H60 AIO
3. Kingston Hyperx Fury 16gb
4. Silverstone SX600-G
5. Lian Li PC O5S
6. Samsung 840 Evo SSD (boot drive) + WD 3TB HDD

 

[shadow84]

Use back igpu, make sure you can turn on your com. Do update your com in every way before u use your 980.

Download DDU to uninstall all nvidia drivers. Download the latest or the one that you want, mount gpu and install it.

 

[skywander]

Tried liao. Uninstalled drivers and installed the latest drivers from Nvidia one time, Palit website second time. No go.

 

[shadow84]

Tried liao. Uninstalled drivers and installed the latest drivers from Nvidia one time, Palit website second time. No go.

Is your pc able to function without gpu? Try with igpu for some time first..

Do not use the nvidia drivers from palit. You can try the 2nd or 3rd latest drivers from nvidia, see if it helps.

 

[royfrosty]

Bought a Palit GTX 980 Super Jetstream recently. Hooked it up into the com, installed drivers, all worked fine for 2-3 days. The next day, screen went black after I booted up into windows. Did a format and fresh install of Windows 7, reset mobo bios, went black again after I installed Nvidia drivers. Hong kan. I booted into safe mode, uninstalled the nvidia drivers, I could boot into windows on normal mode again but with the shitty resolutions and cannot play games with the card. Whether I use drivers from the CD, Palit website, Nvidia official site, all cannot.

Went back to RMA. They could boot into windows but the card went black after some GPU stress tests. Ok, gave me a new replacement card, which I tested on the spot. Worked fine.

Ok, went back home, put in the new card, it worked fine for the first boot and 3 to 4 sequential boots. Four hours later, powered on the comp, same problem again! Screen turned black after boot screen! I can hear the windows login chime and the shutdown chime when I press the power button but everything is black.

Any bros with any insight? Did I really kena two lemons in a row right? I thought Palit is quite good one? Or got another prob somewhere?

For ref, my specs are (all new parts except SSD, HDD and AIO)

1. Asus Maximus Impact VII
2. i5 4690k & Corsair H60 AIO
3. Kingston Hyperx Fury 16gb
4. Silverstone SX600-G
5. Lian Li PC O5S
6. Samsung 840 Evo SSD (boot drive) + WD 3TB HDD

Not saying that the brand is not good. But it is a lesser known brand.

Anyway, you troubleshoot everything you got. But most likely is your GPU or your PSU.

1. Try other cables or another type of connections.
2. Do check your monitor and see if it is faulty by trying another monitor.
3. Do check and try on iGPU see whether it works. If it goes black.
4. Try another PSU.

 

[CCCustom]

Try a different PSU. Make sure the 2nd PSU is 1 that can handle your card's power requirement though.

Had a similar problem with the older generation Seasonic X-series deteriorating until it only worked with a backup GT210 card I use for troubleshooting. For a long time I kept thinking it was the graphics card or nVidia drivers. Then finally 1 day when I switched on the PC, sparks flew out the back of the PSU. Corbell replaced it with a KM3 ... never had that problem again.

 

[monikernemo]

I thought got people say latest drivers from nvidia got problem..?

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[Fatfool]

You might want to look into whether your PSU is frying your card.... that's not a bad PSU though. I have one of them.

 

[skywander]

Went down to Nigel at PC Care. He solved the issue: mobo not detecting gfx card properly, updated mobo bios solved it. Phew.

 

[avsquare]

I thought got people say latest drivers from nvidia got problem..?

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Mostly with Google Chrome crashing the driver.

Advise is to disable hardware acceleration on Chrome until nvidia/chrome/microsoft fix it.