EVGA GTX 660 Issues - Help Appreciated

[NeverBackDown]

what?

this has nothing to do with SLi,I think you mis read the post.

Lol wrong thread? or?..

Probs saw '2nd' and 'GTX660' in the same sentence and assumed SLI.

Half fair excuse I guess.

James is right.. Very rare to have someone buy a second GPU and not sli..

I don't think this is the wrong thread(might be idk but gone for 2 days) but i swear he mentioned a specific motherboard model(ASUS H61xx USB 3) and it does not support SLI... Idk may be wrong thread. Oh well.

 

[Feronix]

James is right.. Very rare to have someone buy a second GPU and not sli..

I don't think this is the wrong thread(might be idk but gone for 2 days) but i swear he mentioned a specific motherboard model(ASUS H61xx USB 3) and it does not support SLI... Idk may be wrong thread. Oh well.

Erhm... He didn't buy the GTX 660 himself, let alone a second one.

Friend of mine bought a 2nd hand EVGA GTX660 SC

:lol:

Anyway, going off topic here.

 

[NeverBackDown]

^^ I understand that feronix.

 

[19Dan81]

Anyone here that can help with this for a few minutes?

Helping my friend do some testing as we speak, so I would love some input from some of you.

I've gone through all BIOS options with him, disabled iGPU, selected PCIe, GPU is connected to monitor directly. Now, when he boots to safe mode, the system appears to freeze on the "Please Wait" screen.

Meanwhile, the fans are spinning on the GPU and it appears to work but for the lack of screen. Cannot install drivers for the gpu when it's plugged into the motherboard as iGPU won't give him a picture when that's plugged into monitor.

Any idea's?

 

[jamesriley94]

Your best way to tell if this is driver related or a problem with the card is to try with a completely fresh copy of windows.

Do you have a spare hard drive there to try and install to? If not, maybe partition what he has.

iGPU often doesn't work after GPU drivers have been installed as the drivers will over-ride the iGPU unless you uninstall them properly before switching (obviously you couldn't do that). The same can work in reverse too, which is hopefully what you problem is.

If it isn't that, then it's most likely a dead GPU.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I wouldn't say a dead Gpu if his fans are spinning. It's most likely a driver problem and was a very bad installation. Just enable the igpu and take out the Gpu and get into windows and see if that works.

 

[19Dan81]

Windows works fine when the GPU has been removed. The system only has issues when the GPU is in the motherboard.

With GPU plugged into monitor with iGPU disabled, he boots to windows normally and he gets;

"AVG Install path: C:\Program files (x86)/

Avg Watchdog Initializing ....
2013-08-15 current time Starting, loading etc

Avg watchdog starting.....

Avg watchdog started....


Once that is finished, it'll just stay there with that information - what on earth is that and does that have something to do with what's happening?

 

[NeverBackDown]

AVG is and anti virus. It may be conflicting with your drivers and won't let it start.

Try downloading Microsoft Secruity Essentials and after download try to completely remove AVG(from registry as well if you're comfortable with that) and then install MSE. Update it and then restart the system. AFter that go to Nvidias website download the newest drivers(non beta unless you want to) and then uninstall your previous ones. restart and install the new one.

This should work and it's what i would do.

 

[19Dan81]

He's uninstalling AVG as we speak. Then he'll install the GPU back into the motherboard and boot straight to Windows and see what happens then, hopefully, he'll get to Windows and actually be allowed to download drivers for it.

He has drivers already on his desktop from the first time we tried to get this working, it's 320.49 (same drivers I'm using) hopefully they will install to his GPU and this issue will be solved lol.

Stand-by!

 

[jamesriley94]

I wouldn't say a dead Gpu if his fans are spinning. It's most likely a driver problem and was a very bad installation. Just enable the igpu and take out the Gpu and get into windows and see if that works.

Could easily be a dead card?

Not hard for a cap to have burnt out for the GPU itself, whilst all the fan controlling is normal.

I would do what you've suggested however. You may also need to uninstall the Intel graphics drivers.

 

[19Dan81]

Ok, He's booting into Windows normally straight from the GPU and it's stuck at "Starting Windows". Going to get him to boot to safe mode now to at least try and install the drivers.

Update:

Tried safe mode and he can't get past the "Please Wait" screen. He's about ready to lob it all through his window lol. So, he's taking a break from it for now (I don't blame him), if anyone lives in Hartlepool and is willing to test his GPU, we'd both be very grateful, if it is indeed faulty, then he can arrange a replacement/refund. Thing is, I'm nowhere near him to physically help.

Thanks for your continued support.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I would just try to get a refund and then buy a 760 for not much more money but yet a quite the increase in performance(noticeable increase).

 

[19Dan81]

Could his Windows install have anything to do with the GPU problems? I've had him to CMOS, ran numerous tests, tried just about everything I can think of - could it be Windows? If it's plausible, how?

Thanks.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Do a fresh install of windows and download only the windows updates(service pack 1 mainly) and other things(mainly drivers) he NEEDS for the hardware. Then download the latest beta nvidia driver and see if it works.

 

[19Dan81]

Thanks for all your efforts. I've told him to run Driver Sweeper again to make absolutely sure there are no drivers at all installed and finally if all else fails, fresh install Windows.

 

[Feronix]

Thanks for all your efforts. I've told him to run Driver Sweeper again to make absolutely sure there are no drivers at all installed and finally if all else fails, fresh install Windows.

Let us know how things work out, please

 

[19Dan81]

Just tried something else in the meantime:

1. Turn off the computer and unplug
2. Remove Graphic card
3. Plug the monitor to your video output
4. Turn on the computer
5. Click on start and type msconfig
6. Select the Boot tab and click on the box that says Safe boot with minimal selected.
7. Apply then click ok.
8. DO NOT RESTART.
9. Shut Down computer and unplug
10. Install Graphic card
11. Turn on the computer (should boot into safe mode)
12. Device Manager
13. Expand Display Adapter
14. Disabled the Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 driver. (DO NOT UNINSTALL)
15. msconfig
16. Unclick Safe boot
17. Restart

Got to number 11 and got Black Screen. So VGA to monitor still brought a black screen. CMOS and currently running Windows Repair to get back to Desktop...

I genuinely think the card is doomed. How hard can it be to install a GPU!?

So glad mine works well...

 

[NAVYVIPER]

ask you friend to sent the card to you
so your self can test it if its a bad card

 

[NeverBackDown]

Just RMA the card. That should fix the problem.

 

[19Dan81]

Some news:

The absolute, last resort was reinstalling Windows, and you never guess what? It's alive!

I'm pleased to say the GPU works perfectly well with the latest drivers and system is running fine. I'd just like to thanks all those that threw ideas around here when we were banging our heads against the wall - thank you.