GTX 580 crashing with odd start up screen

Summerside182

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Hey everyone.

I would like your input on my problem. I have a GTX 580 and a i5 750 2.67GHZ processor.

My computer is crashing a lot and sometime it will recover with this message : Nvidia Kernel Mode Driver has stopped responding and has recovered issue.

when it crash, the color on my screen became really wierd and I cant move anything but the computer sounds is still working for a couple of second.

the very wierd part is that sometime, even in the start-up screen ( when u can hit F2 and go in your BIOS set up ) I will still have some vertical lines flashing and the computer will not start properly ( it will start in like 680x340 resolution).

I am really worried my GTX 580 blew out.

things I tried :

re-installed drivers. did not work.

Clean install windows. did not work.

unplug / re-plug GTX 580. did no work.


would appreciate any comments / inputs

thank you!
 
Solution
The graphics driver is corrupted. I had the same problem once.
Use your System Restore to restore back to a time you know it worked.
You will need to boot up in Safe Mode to do this.
Once you have restored your system update the driver.
If the restore did not work, Boot up in Safe Mode and remove all of your GPU's drivers.
Restart and reinstall the GPU's drivers.
The PSU may be bad. Check it!
If the GPU can not get enough power it will cause tone of problems.
Install another GPU and see if the problem goes away.
If so, then your GPU is the root of the problem.

Happy Computing! :)

Nathan Willis

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Mar 15, 2014
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The graphics driver is corrupted. I had the same problem once.
Use your System Restore to restore back to a time you know it worked.
You will need to boot up in Safe Mode to do this.
Once you have restored your system update the driver.
If the restore did not work, Boot up in Safe Mode and remove all of your GPU's drivers.
Restart and reinstall the GPU's drivers.
The PSU may be bad. Check it!
If the GPU can not get enough power it will cause tone of problems.
Install another GPU and see if the problem goes away.
If so, then your GPU is the root of the problem.

Happy Computing! :)
 
Solution
It's an oldie but a goodie system ;) so check the other usual suspects: Reseat the memory modules, remove and reseat all the power leads and add in cards, check the idle temperatures of the CPU and graphics card.
Random crashes can also be caused-as has been said- by a failing power supply, which one is it?
Bad news is that artifacting during POST is usually a sign of a failed card.