Before you go off and buy a GTX5xx...

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Make sure you system board is compatible with the series of cards.
Best bet is to test one first if you know anyone that has one.

I say this as I sit looking at the $400 paperweight in front of me...the GTX570 won't work with my XFX X58i board.

XFX says the problem is the HD Audio processor in the HDMI chip on the card. EVGA says they have no updates to fix it and recommended disabling the HD Audio device on driver install. The caveat is the problem actually occurs before the driver (or even windows) loads. Not loading the HD Audio driver part makes no difference. Right off the bat the thing caused my PC to take 5 minutes to boot past bios and 15 minutes to boot into windows when I first powered up and runs choppy as hell (but hey, there were no errors...)

Check THIS THREAD BEFORE PURCHASING ANY GTX 4xx and 5xx CARD to make sure your system board is not listed...otherwise you will have a nice paperweight as well (at least in the case of purchasing an EVGA card, because they have a policy with retailers to NOT accept returns on them).

Edit:~ I found a work around, which is to add in an additional PCI-E GPU card, prefferably an older model. Don't ask me why it works...(I don't know yet, but I have a few theories)
 
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Damn that sucks, luckily I haven't had a problem but guess when I eventually upgrade my motherboard, cpu and ram I will have to do some extra research.
 
On eVGA, there is a large thread on disabling the HD Audio adaptor... though I have not run into such an issue, yet. Other than the occasional stutter in singleplayer Starcraft 2.
 
Whoh, that's rough. You can't return the card? You could at least re-sell it maybe?
 
No issues here. The only XFX motherboard I ever owned didn't exactly impress me and had several BIOS issues that were never resolved.

Hopefully you can find some sort of a fix for your issue.
 
huh.. This could probably explain the issue I had with GTX 480...

glad I found this thread..
 
That really sucks. While not a solution you should have to settle for, I'd Craigslist that card. At this point you can probably get pretty close to retail. Not the best solution, but it's making lemonade with a lemon.
Option 2 would be selling your mobo and getting a new one.
 
If I do anything, it would be a motherboard, since they are cheaper than video cards and I'd have effectively a spare system left over with if something died later.

Just not sure if I want to do that yet.
 
A lot of people having problems with the Asus P6T yet I've been using mine with SLI 480s since they came out.
 
Interesting. I've had my GTX580 for about a month now and for a while my onboard audio worked fine. I went to a LAN party and when I got back it suddenly did not work anymore. No device in the device manager or anything. Tried turning it off and on in the bios and it did nothing. I ended up buying a new dedicated sound card (since my X-FI needed an upgrade anyway). The reason I needed the onboard along with the X-Fi is that I was using the mic port as a digital I/O port, so I had to use the onboard audio for mic input.

I'm not sure if this was the problem considering onboard sound was working for a while, but it's interesting. I figured the jostling of my system when in transit is what killed the onboard sound.
 
anonmoniker said:
A lot of people having problems with the Asus P6T yet I've been using mine with SLI 480s since they came out.
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I had SLI'd GTX470's (now being upgraded to 580's). Something is fishy... a handful of users are having a problem yet the rest of us aren't? The problems we see there are such a small percentage of the masses that have these cards so obviously each manufacturer is having a bad batch of cards/motherboards for incompatibility, or at least something to that effect.
 
anonmoniker said:
A lot of people having problems with the Asus P6T yet I've been using mine with SLI 480s since they came out.
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I have a P6T Deluxe and I've run with a 470 and a 570. Not at the same time, but both were used when the respective cards were released. No problems.
 
It crosses my mind that eVGA (or any nVidia partner) is essentially saying that their card is incompatible with a vast majority of motherboards. That isn't on the retail box...they are selling a card that is supposed to be a "standard PCIe x16" card. It isn't standard when it doesn't work with a vast majority of motherboards.

Sounds like grounds for a chargeback really.
 
Funny thing is making sure your motherboard is not in that list does NOTHING, because I see the SAME motherboards in the list right below of working systems...

I don't think computer issues are anything new, that is what troubleshooting and RMA's are for.
 
Interesting stuff. I just installed a Gigabyte GTX 570 into my Gigabyte UD3R. So far so good. Finger crossed.
 
P5T Deluxe with MSI GTX570 and no problems, whats all this about? I used to get lockups with GTX260 though.
 
I'm not too worried, I read the forum on the "issue" on nvidias forums and it appears that even thought the thread title says series 4xx and 5xx cards that almost every single issue is with 4xx cards.
 
580 works fine with GA-P55A-UD4P which is the SAME chip set as the UD3 sooo im called BS on this
 
Kangg said:
I'm not too worried, I read the forum on the "issue" on nvidias forums and it appears that even thought the thread title says series 4xx and 5xx cards that almost every single issue is with 4xx cards.
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Not too many have the 500 cards yets, not as much as the 400 so that would be expected.
 
Thankfully, I haven't had any problems with my EVGA GTX 470 paired with my ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 motherboard.
 
Holy mother! I just read that thread and went reading the thread on Nvidia forum... and that's frakking scary!

I was hesitating between going with AMD 6990 or Nvidia GT 590 in the next weeks, but now I know I will stay with AMD!

Never had a single problems with AMD drivers in the last 2 years. But this Nvidia problem is A LOT worst! If you change your motherboard down the line, you don't know if your Nvidia card will work at all!

LOL at people talking about switching to Nvidia because of ''bad AMD drivers and blah blah''.

Thank you for that post. A real eye-opener for me. :)
 
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The thing is, where are the mass reports? Okay, so there's a thread full of people, but that's not the same as a forum filling up with "this card is junk it doesn't work". I suspect there may be a 3rd factor at play.

If you've ever worked in hardware design, you would know that none of these products are bug free. Then pile driver software on top -- it's amazing anything works, lol.
 
Here is a thread already about compatibility issues with late Nvidia cards and different mobos.

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1581660

And there is a LONG thread in Nvidia forums too, link in the OP of that thread. No one really knows why this happens. HDMI Audio is one of the culprits, some are fixed with HDMI Audio disabled from graphics cards BIOS. Some are fixed with voltage and/or PCIe speed changes. It is wierd, really.
 
Is it a combination between using the onboard sound, and having the drivers for the onboard sound installed and then installing the nvidia drivers. Can those with no problems as they are reporting confirm if they are using a 3rd party sound card and overriding the onboard sound and do not have the onboard sound driver installed?
 
It could be the mobo's IRQ settings for the audio codecs going beserk with each other. However, it doesn't seem logical for what amounts to a low end sound codec to screw things up so badly...
 
jeremyshaw said:
It could be the mobo's IRQ settings for the audio codecs going beserk with each other. However, it doesn't seem logical for what amounts to a low end sound codec to screw things up so badly...
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I'm wondering if the problem happens if you have your onboard sound disabled in bios, and the drivers uninstalled or never installed for the onboard sound. This would cause the system to not allocate any resources to the onboard sound at all. That should eliminate hardware conflicts, then if they dont install the onboard sound driver that should remove software conflicts.. I have a gut feeling from reading about this that using a 3rd party sound card like a creative X-fi may fix the issue. That would be a cheaper solution to getting a new board or videocard.
 
Lord_Exodia said:
I'm wondering if the problem happens if you have your onboard sound disabled in bios, and the drivers uninstalled or never installed for the onboard sound. This would cause the system to not allocate any resources to the onboard sound at all. That should eliminate hardware conflicts, then if they dont install the onboard sound driver that should remove software conflicts.. I have a gut feeling from reading about this that using a 3rd party sound card like a creative X-fi may fix the issue. That would be a cheaper solution to getting a new board or videocard.
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570 on x58 board, absolutely no problem. But the mobo sound is switched off in BIOS. using the Tactic3D headset atm... and nothing's wrong happening.
 
I'll try tonight to disable onboard sound tonight to see if I can boot up. (my system won't even post to the bios, there is nothing coming from dvi outputs) In my case it seems though there is not enough juice for PCI-E bus... however I could be wrong....
 
LEVESQUE said:
Holy mother! I just read that thread and went reading the thread on Nvidia forum... and that's frakking scary!

I was hesitating between going with AMD 6990 or Nvidia GT 590 in the next weeks, but now I know I will stay with AMD!

Never had a single problems with AMD drivers in the last 2 years. But this Nvidia problem is A LOT worst! If you change your motherboard down the line, you don't know if your Nvidia card will work at all!

LOL at people talking about switching to Nvidia because of ''bad AMD drivers and blah blah''.

Thank you for that post. A real eye-opener for me. :)
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ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RUUUUN:rolleyes:
 
amd7674 said:
I'll try tonight to disable onboard sound tonight to see if I can boot up. (my system won't even post to the bios, there is nothing coming from dvi outputs) In my case it seems though there is not enough juice for PCI-E bus... however I could be wrong....
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1. Download/Install Driver Sweeper
2. Go to device manager and under Sound Video Game, right click the audio device (probably realtek HD ) choose remove and add a check for remove driver software
3 Say no to reboot
4. Run Driver Sweeper and sweep out all drivers for Realtec audio
5. Reboot and then go in bios and choose onboard ac97 audio disabled

Try again after that
 
A bit problematic if this is true. On one hand I do have a Audigy 4 sound card, but I need the onboard sound to run a mic through due to issues with the Creatives and sound recording in Win 7 64 bit.
 
Lord Exodia, I'll try that.....

I'm very impressed with MSI, they went an extra mile and they grabbed their own MSI GTX580 and where able to boot successfully with MSI K9N2GM-FD, similar to my Asus M3N78-VM (both based on nvidia 8200)....

UPDATE:

no difference with disabled audio in BIOS... My mobo might be damaged. I spoke to Asus this evening, I might do advance RMA on the board...
 
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Damn man, I'm sorry things aren't working out for you. Good luck with the rma though.
 
My old GTX260 card was so unstable with P6T that I had to downclock the voltages ans it worked. This isnt new to me and I wouldnt be surprised if I had to do the same with GTX570.
 
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This is a interesting thread,as I have been considering buying a GTX 580 to install on my Intel DP45SG motherboard(I have a GTX 260 currently installed). Only problem I've had with my card was a AVG update started messing with the latest driver I had installed and uninstalling AVG altogether cured that,so I waved bye-bye with a kick to the ass. That update made my fan speed go up,and created a system slowdown just to let you know what my issue was with that AVG update.
 
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