My GTX 460 started having stability issues while using 3D aplications/games about a year after purchase. To avoid further problems, I downclocked the card and turned down the recommended graphics settings for games.
Recently my system began having frequent system stability issues and sent my card in for RMA to have it repaired. GIGABYTE said the card was tested in two systems with no problems. After receiving my card back from RMA, I am still experiencing the same problems. Over the period of about six hours, my system has frozen four or five times with no 3D application or game running.
I have also experienced mouse pointer lag and corruption (the NVIDIA forums indicated that this may be caused by a driver problem)
Running the Furmark burn-in 1620x1080 causes system shutdown when the card gets to about 75°C.
I completely removed the driver software using Driver Sweeper (which removes registry entries as well), removed the profile settings for the card and cleanly re-installed the driver but my system still freezes.
Running my system with the Radeon GPU I have not experienced any of the above problems.
I also tested the gtx 460 in another system (PCIE gen 1 slot) using the same driver but didn't have any problems.
I ran the Furmark burn-in at 1920x1080 and the normal stress test on a Supermicro X7DAE+ motherboard with a Xeon processor. The temperature leveled out at 77 degrees Celsius and there were no crashes or freezing.
I am still experiencing random black-screen freezing with the GPU in the original system. The Furmark burn-in at 1920x1080 caused an instant system shutdown.
I ran memtest86 for 1 pass with no problems.
The virus scanner reported no infections.
Windows 7 hasn't produced a minidump for any of the crashes/freezes, so it seems that there isn't a sharing conflict or conflict with another driver.
I updated the motherboard drivers.
In this thread, someone with different motherboard and GPU mentioned disabling the higher generation PCIE in the bios solved their problem.
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,9144.0.html
My bios settings don't have a way to disable the PCIE gen 2, so I am unable to check whether that would solve the problem.
In this thread, someone with the same GPU experienced freezing because of a driver conflict with Realktek HD Audio drivers (which I also have installed on my system). They were able to analyze the minidumps written out by WIndows 7. However, my system hasn't written out a dump.
http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-help-support/226375-random-black-screens-freezing-nvidia-gtx-460-a.html
Since the card seems to be okay in other systems, I am wondering if you have any suggestions on what to check for next to isolate the problem.
GPU
GTX 460 GV-N460OC-1GI rev1.0
600 watt PSU
Rosewill RP 600 V2-S-SL model # AP-650 F 12 V
CPU
Intel i7 920 2.67 GHz
Motherboard
Kuroshio G03-BI600-F
Driver
320.49 WHQL
Recently my system began having frequent system stability issues and sent my card in for RMA to have it repaired. GIGABYTE said the card was tested in two systems with no problems. After receiving my card back from RMA, I am still experiencing the same problems. Over the period of about six hours, my system has frozen four or five times with no 3D application or game running.
I have also experienced mouse pointer lag and corruption (the NVIDIA forums indicated that this may be caused by a driver problem)
Running the Furmark burn-in 1620x1080 causes system shutdown when the card gets to about 75°C.
I completely removed the driver software using Driver Sweeper (which removes registry entries as well), removed the profile settings for the card and cleanly re-installed the driver but my system still freezes.
Running my system with the Radeon GPU I have not experienced any of the above problems.
I also tested the gtx 460 in another system (PCIE gen 1 slot) using the same driver but didn't have any problems.
I ran the Furmark burn-in at 1920x1080 and the normal stress test on a Supermicro X7DAE+ motherboard with a Xeon processor. The temperature leveled out at 77 degrees Celsius and there were no crashes or freezing.
I am still experiencing random black-screen freezing with the GPU in the original system. The Furmark burn-in at 1920x1080 caused an instant system shutdown.
I ran memtest86 for 1 pass with no problems.
The virus scanner reported no infections.
Windows 7 hasn't produced a minidump for any of the crashes/freezes, so it seems that there isn't a sharing conflict or conflict with another driver.
I updated the motherboard drivers.
In this thread, someone with different motherboard and GPU mentioned disabling the higher generation PCIE in the bios solved their problem.
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,9144.0.html
My bios settings don't have a way to disable the PCIE gen 2, so I am unable to check whether that would solve the problem.
In this thread, someone with the same GPU experienced freezing because of a driver conflict with Realktek HD Audio drivers (which I also have installed on my system). They were able to analyze the minidumps written out by WIndows 7. However, my system hasn't written out a dump.
http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-help-support/226375-random-black-screens-freezing-nvidia-gtx-460-a.html
Since the card seems to be okay in other systems, I am wondering if you have any suggestions on what to check for next to isolate the problem.
GPU
GTX 460 GV-N460OC-1GI rev1.0
600 watt PSU
Rosewill RP 600 V2-S-SL model # AP-650 F 12 V
CPU
Intel i7 920 2.67 GHz
Motherboard
Kuroshio G03-BI600-F
Driver
320.49 WHQL
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