If you derail this thread...
Neither of you are helping here. I didn't expect to have so many problems switching to Nvidia, but it's obvious this issue is not widespread enough for there to be a well-documented fix, and finger pointing is hardly constructive in any case.
If you have a troubleshooting related suggestion, fix, personal experience, link, anything like that, by all means...
Keep your AMD trolls out of NV threads and there won't be any remarks...
It's plugged directly into the wall.You have a quality psu, do you have the computer plugged in to a ups, or old power strip , extension cord.
This is not normal behavior.
The store did that and said the card seemed to run fine except for a quick flash of a single green screen during driver installation that gave them pause enough to offer a replacement card.The obvious thing to do here is find another machine to drop the 580 in. Hell, ask the store to drop it in one of their machines.
That possibility does scare me, Japan's power even from the wall isn't the cleanest. Still, the last PC ran fine for years on a Corsair HX650.If it's running fine there, your PSU is running out of spec, or your power source is fucked and killing your hardware by feeding dirty power.
Again: not really helpful with regards to this thread.It's common knowledge that Nvidia has a tendency to ship substandard hardware.
another case of high end NV card failing huh?
I love it how you're waving your AMD jock around while thowing the OP a bone with your reset CPU comment. Anything for an opportunity to be an AMD whore huh?
Both of you are unbelievable. Take deep breaths, please.aaw...not enough green love getting "thown" around?
Better keep your gutter mouth shut if you want to remain here.
So, I pulled the trigger on a new 580 about three weeks ago. Folded on it for a couple weeks, played some games, watched videos of various types--all was fine.
Then today my Nvidia display driver crashed and recovered watching a flash video in Firefox. From there, my system is suddenly unable to play back any kind of video without screen corruption and massive green screens that result in the display driver crashing and recovering. Flash, .mpg, .mp4, .mkv, regardless of the media player including VLC.
your driver did not crash and recover, your video card (hardware) crashed and was rebooted by windows. Windows vista and win7 will power cycle the video card by itself and terminate the driver and reload it when it fails somehow, this could be either a driver bug, or a hardware failure. From your description I am 99% sure your video card just broken. It happens, sometimes when you buy a brand new video card something is wrong with it and it will fail soon after you start using it.
luckily there is warranty, get an RMA asap.
That's exactly what happened, the first card was fine for a month before suddenly dying, the second card worked for a week before developing the same problem. I discounted software or Windows as the likely cause since the cards were fine for a while after installation. When they stopped working there had been no change whatsoever to software or settings, it was very abrupt (and not fixable once manifested).OP: when the store gave you a new card, and you placed the new card in... did it work fine for a while before failing too?
if it worked for a little while after plugging in the second card, then stopped working as well, then it is a hardware issue, and something is causing both of those to fail in the same way.
The first one working for a month and then failing doesn't disprove software, the software issue could have only manifested one month in, specifically, as an OS file corruption. But the fact that when replaced the other card worked (for a bit) proves that it indeed cannot be your OS.That's exactly what happened, the first card was fine for a month before suddenly dying, the second card worked for a week before developing the same problem. I discounted software or Windows as the likely cause since the cards were fine for a while after installation. When they stopped working there had been no change whatsoever to software or settings, it was very abrupt (and not fixable once manifested).
it is certainly plausible.I suppose newly released high end hardware might have a higher failure rate, but the fact that it happened with two different cards made me suspect a power problem as Kuzi mentioned.
good luck with that, hopefully your hardware woes are over.Which is more likely, two GTX 580s bought right at launch both developing hardware problems, or a brand new Corsair 850AX being defective out of the box? Now with ATI cards installed, if anything happens now I'll know immediately the power supply is to blame. Wish there was a way to test it without expensive equipment...
OP,
do yourself a favor and repair Windows. Seriously, it takes about 1 hr to repair Windows. And how long has it taken you to try all the things you have tried in here? You do know that Windows corruption is a frequent fact of the Microsoft world right? In fact, forget Windows corruption, just conflicting apps (codecs?) is a fact of life in the Windows world.
It seems to me Windows is your issue or at least a strong candidate to be the issue.
When things run fine in Safe Mode and not fine in regular mode, then it's Windows related (or apps in Windows related). When Aero breaks in Windows and "classic" works, then it points to Windows. Sometimes it may be just easier to repair Windows (or better yet reinstall it) as one of your first diagnostic steps.
I don't know why or some of the people in here keep giving you advice and going on and on about switching to AMD as the solution. But it's clear to me that those who are trying to help you are also trying to convince you of switching hardware, a rather disingenuous attempt at helping a person. I really hate those type of "salesman" helpers in life.
(And for the record, I own an AMD card.)
Looking at all the other users who've had this problem with various Nvidia cards over the past several years, the only semi-consistent workaround was "try different driver revisions." Some went back as many as five driver releases until things seemed to work for them, and often it was only a temporary fix...with the 580, there are only two official drivers, and neither solves it.Did you find a solution to this ? I was looking at a 570 recently, but it would be doing some playback. There are some more threads about this around here too.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2130569
Nvidia hasn't released any drivers in over two months now. What gives.