Gtx 660 not showing up in device manager

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

I just built a new pc this morning and loaded windows 8 on it and everything was working fine for about 4 hours. I walked away from my computer for a bit to come back and I was in a reboot loop and there were thin off-colored lines on my screen. I reset windows and was able to boot back up, just to find out that my Gigabyte Gtx 660 is not in device manager. I've tried downloading the drivers and it just restarts in the middle of the installation.
My specs are:
Intel i5-3570k with a hyper 212 evo
MSI z77a-gd65 mobo
Gigabyte Gtx 660
Corsair 650 watt psu

Also i forgot to mention that the card is still getting power, because the fans are running. My hdmi is still hooked up to the card and I am still getting a picture on the screen. And I have tried switching pci-e slots, which did not help.

johnnyb105 · May 19, 2013

It may be your card I recently had a gigabyte card die on me as well in just 3 days it happens.

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

johnnyb105 :

Yeah it may be. Just wanted to see what other people had to think too.

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

Could my graphics card still considered to be dead even if I still have my hdmi plugged into the card and its showing up to the monitor, but it has lines all across it. Still haven't got it to show in device manager either.

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

any ideas? Or should I just RMA it.

Jan3s · May 19, 2013

kostroun05 :

http://www.msi.com/service/download/bios-20185.html .. Open this link download and upgrade your bios then tell me the result.

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

Jan3s :

kostroun05 :

http://www.msi.com/service/download/bios-20185.html .. Open this link download and upgrade your bios then tell me the result.

Ok I'll try that. Will flashing the bios be necessary though?

Jan3s · May 19, 2013

kostroun05 :

Jan3s :

Ok I'll try that. Will flashing the bios be necessary though?

This same thing happened with my old amd phenom x3 i bought gtx 550 ti with it but it was not showing up in device manager i was completely out of my mind that day but after updating bios it came in device manager then i simply install nvidia drivers and HORRAY!

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

Jan3s :

kostroun05 :

This same thing happened with my old amd phenom x3 i bought gtx 550 ti with it but it was not showing up in device manager i was completely out of my mind that day but after updating bios it came in device manager then i simply install nvidia drivers and HORRAY!

Well I switched over to my integrated graphics and was able to get my gtx 660 to show up, then windows managed to crash my integrated graphics driver. So now I get bsod everytime I boot.

Jan3s · May 19, 2013

kostroun05 :

Jan3s :

kostroun05 :

This same thing happened with my old amd phenom x3 i bought gtx 550 ti with it but it was not showing up in device manager i was completely out of my mind that day but after updating bios it came in device manager then i simply install nvidia drivers and HORRAY!

Well I switched over to my integrated graphics and was able to get my gtx 660 to show up, then windows managed to crash my integrated graphics driver. So now I get bsod everytime I boot.

Trolled, why you are not trying to upgrade bios?

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

Jan3s :

kostroun05 :

Jan3s :

Well I switched over to my integrated graphics and was able to get my gtx 660 to show up, then windows managed to crash my integrated graphics driver. So now I get bsod everytime I boot.

Trolled, why you are not trying to upgrade bios?

I am about here pretty soon.

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

Ok, so I flashed the bios. I'll post an update once I switch back to my graphics card

Jan3s · May 19, 2013

kostroun05 :

Ok am waiting!

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

I've been waiting for the windows update to finish this entire time. I'm considering shutting off my computer.. Should not take this long.

Jan3s · May 19, 2013

kostroun05 :

No problem am waiting!

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

If my hdd light isn't very active during the update installation should I just restart the computer? It's been over an hour since anything has happened.

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

I tried booting it up with the graphics card and the screen is still messed up.. I'll try to download the latest drivers if it will let me boot into windows. I'm not sure what the problem is, but the graphics card may just be bad

Everytime I boot into windows with the graphics card it goes straight to automatic repair.. But it does not do that with the integrated graphics.

Jan3s · May 19, 2013

kostroun05 :

What do you mean screen messed up when you try to boot? i thought you were just not getting it in device manager :S

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

Well I thought it was a driver issue with the graphics card when I booted up with it. I will have off color lines across my screen. So I switched to my integrated card and got the graphics card to show up in device manager, but I still couldn't update to the latest driver. So I think its just a bad GPU, because nothing has changed when I boot with my GPU. And it works fine with the integrated gpu.

Jan3s · May 19, 2013

kostroun05 :

Replace it then as soon as possible

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

Jan3s :

Yeah I already have a replacement on the way. Just going to run it off my integrated gpu for now I guess. There's nothing else I can do.

Jan3s · May 19, 2013

kostroun05 :

Jan3s :

Yeah I already have a replacement on the way. Just going to run it off my integrated gpu for now I guess. There's nothing else I can do.

Waiting is the pain in ass but still you gotta wait, lol.

kostroun05 · May 19, 2013

Jan3s :

kostroun05 :

Waiting is the pain in ass but still you gotta wait, lol.

Haha no kidding. It'll be in on Tuesday this week. So I'll post back on this thread to see if it works.

Jan3s · May 19, 2013

kostroun05 :

Jan3s :

Haha no kidding. It'll be in on Tuesday this week. So I'll post back on this thread to see if it works.

And i will be there to help you out

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