Bought a new EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SE. Screen goes black after logging in.
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I normally do not ever make threads for my computer problems as I usually always find my answers on Google. But this time I really am stumped and Google has yielded little results. I'm desperately hoping you guys might be able to figure this out for me.
OK, so basically I bought a new EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SE for my computer. After installing the card, when I get to the login screen, the screen goes completely black after logging in and my monitor basically loses the video signal. At first I thought it may have been a driver issue and just needed to update. I rebooted and went into Safe Mode and downloaded the latest driver. I went ahead and downloaded the latest update available from both EVGA and Nvidia and tried both of them out and neither of them yielded any results, I still kept getting the same problem.
I also tried installing older driver updates in case the card wasn't compatible to the latest update. No dice, either. I even ran Driver Sweeper and completely removed all Nvidia drivers and reinstalled a fresh driver update. Still no dice.
After some more troubleshooting and countless google searches, I then assumed that perhaps my 500W PSU wasn't giving enough wattage or amps and needed to upgrade. Afterwards I upgraded to a CORSAIR CMPSU-750TS 750W power supply and tried the card with that. STILL no dice.
Now at this point, I'm pretty pissed. I started to wonder if my motherboard was at fault. Luckily my brother runs the exact same motherboard as I do, so I went ahead and installed it in his computer to see if it would run fine. At first his computer booted up properly with no problems, but as soon as he updated the video driver and restarted the computer, he started getting the exact same problems. Now, as I said before, both of our mobos are the same. I don't know if this means this video card is not compatible to this mobo or not, but I didn't think the type of mobo would matter as long as it uses the correct slot. I also considered doing a BIOS update, but when I went to my manufacturer's website and looked at all the available BIOS updates they offered, none of them dealt with any GPU or PCI-E improvements.
I really really hope it doesn't turn out my video card is faulty and needs to be replaced. I've waited for so long on shipping with this card and the PSU that I just can't stand doing a RMA at this point. I'll do it if I have to, but I'd like to find out if there is possibly any other solution to this problem before even considering calling a replacement. I'd highly appreciate it if you guys help me out with this. And sorry for the wall of text, I didn't want to leave any details out.
Here are my current specs, if they help:
GIGABYTE MA790X-UD4P Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.0GHz
CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W PSU
4GB RAM DDR2
ZALMAN CNPS9500 Heatsink Fan
The video card I had before upgrading was EVGA Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512
What OS?
[editline]4th May 2011[/editline]
Also, is one (or both, dunno) PCI-e power connector (6 pin) plugged in?
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. And yes, both PCI-E connectors are plugged in, I actually read the instructions, unlike some others.
What drivers are you downloading? It's just a guess, but maybe the SE edition has other drivers? Afterall it has less CUDA cores and so on.
Sounds like driver conflicts if the same exact thing happened in your brothers build with the same exact mobo.
Try logging on in safemode. You may want to choose the 'without network' option, or whatever it's called. It's easy to see and it's on the safemode menu.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;29615529]What drivers are you downloading? It's just a guess, but maybe the SE edition has other drivers? Afterall it has less CUDA cores and so on.[/QUOTE]
The driver I'm using is V270.61, which is the latest available driver right now. It says on both NVIDIA's and EVGA's site that this driver is compatible with the GTX 460 SE.
[editline]4th May 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=drummerundrcovr;29615632]Sounds like driver conflicts if the same exact thing happened in your brothers build with the same exact mobo.
Try logging on in safemode. You may want to choose the 'without network' option, or whatever it's called. It's easy to see and it's on the safemode menu.[/QUOTE]
It works fine in Safe Mode, that's what I used when I was switching between multiple different drivers.
Do you have any drivers installed for the igp on the motherboard? and did you poke around with uninstalling other drivers? I feel like audio drivers cause more problems than other drivers.
Here you go. Follow steps to fix. It is indeed audio drivers.
[url]http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=586183[/url]
[QUOTE=ClaBrendon;29636254]Here you go. Follow steps to fix. It is indeed audio drivers.
[url]http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=586183[/url][/QUOTE]
Just spent the last three hours following these instructions carefully and re-doing it all multiple times. No dice. Sounded too good to be true, anyways. It was worth a shot, at least.
I recommend posting on EVGA website then. They have many helpful people there.
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