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Windows DC Nvidia issues

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plext0r

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I was planning to upgrade my home Windows boxes from low-end Nvidia cards (GT 240, GT 440) to higher-end GTX 560 Ti and GTX 580 GPUs to run GIMPS. I've had nothing but problems getting the 560 Ti running; if I swap the GT 440 back in, Windows behaves.

Yesterday I did a fresh install of Win 7 x64 Ultimate, fully patched, rebooted. As soon as I install the Nvidia drivers and reboot, I have the infamous black screen after Windows starts up (screen either stays power on and shows nothing or powers off, loses signal). I've also gotten stuck on the "Starting Windows" screen for hours.

If I reset, hit F8, restore to the point before I added the nvidia drivers, I'm back to normal. I've tried various Nvidia drivers. The latest WHQL 335.23, the old 296.10 drivers (desperate) and some of the WHQL drivers in between. Each time I install the Nvidia drivers and reboot, I have the black screen issue mentioned on multiple forums. If I remove the GTX 560 Ti and put the GT 440 back, the computer boots perfectly.

I'm about ready to toss these cards in more Linux systems and forget running GIMPS on the Windows hosts. Any other ideas I need to try? Should I be asking in another [H] forum? Thanks.
 
I think the last time I had a black screen, I just hit the power off and wait for windows to shutdown, and/or turned it off after 15min and then power back up and it was ok on the second boot...

edit: Also how about driver 326.80 - that was once suppose to be the most stable folding :)
 
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I have had that happen in Windows after various card installs. It wasn't always the same solution. It could be a defective card, it could be a bad slot, it could be the OS, 3rd party software... The list just goes on.

Since the other cards work, I would say potentially it is the card you are putting in it. Has it been tested already as solid in another box? Are you installing just one card or going multi-gpu in the boxes? Recently when mixing nVidia cards, each time I add a new card I have to do a clean install and let all of the video cards install at once. Just adding one has failed on me multiple times lately in different boxes. All Windows.
 
NickOfTime said:
Also how about driver 326.80 - that was once suppose to be the most stable folding :)
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I'll give that a try next. Thanks for the idea.

Gilthanis said:
I have had that happen in Windows after various card installs. It wasn't always the same solution. It could be a defective card, it could be a bad slot, it could be the OS, 3rd party software... The list just goes on.

Since the other cards work, I would say potentially it is the card you are putting in it. Has it been tested already as solid in another box? Are you installing just one card or going multi-gpu in the boxes? Recently when mixing nVidia cards, each time I add a new card I have to do a clean install and let all of the video cards install at once. Just adding one has failed on me multiple times lately in different boxes. All Windows.
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I pulled this card from a Linux host running GIMPS on the card at ~380GHz-d/day. I never attached a monitor to it to verify it worked as a video card, but it definitely processed GIMPS WUs. :)

I'll try another slot in my PC (x8 with x16 slot). This is an EVGA X58 3-way SLI motherboard. It has 3 PCIe x16 slots, only one is x16, the other is x8 and the third is x4. I've never run SLI nor do I plan to. I'm only installing the 560 Ti and it fails. When I reinstall the GT 440, it works fine.
 
brilong said:
I'll try another slot in my PC (x8 with x16 slot).
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For some reason, I moved the card and it started working. What the heck? The lower-end GT 440 worked fine in the top PCIe slot. This 560 Ti likes living in the second slot which I believe is only 8x. Oh well, it shouldn't affect GIMPS throughput. :)
 
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