660 ti problems from day 1, please help

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Hi there, I have been constantly frustrated with my PC since I built it, I have often encountered various "driver stopped responding messages" and game crashes. I settle for playing games at a lower quality then I have been told in the past (when building it and when asking for help with this problem before) my rig should be more than capable of running.

My specs are as followed:

Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. P8Z77-V PRO

Processor: 3.60 gigahertz Intel Core i7-3770K

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti

Memory: 16334 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

PSU: EVGA Supernova650G Gold

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium (x64)

(If I am missing anything then please ask and I will post the spec)


I have performed at least 3 fresh installs since owning this machine and yes the obvious thing always asked is I do have the latest drivers installed, the solution sadly is not as straight forward as that.

The latest error is from trying to play Minecraft today: "NVIDIA OpenGL driver - too many errors occurred".

Please someone help me with this, I am willing to run whatever tests, software, performance checks etc just tell me what to do. I want this resolved once and for all.

Other thing of note: 3 months ago I took this to a local pc repair shop where they ran tests to try and find out what was wrong, the only useful information they did tell me was none of my hardware was faulty.
 
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plywrlw
Is there any way you can borrow someone's graphics card and run that in your PC for a few hours to see if you still get the errors? Before installing another card you should completely uninstall the old graphics card drivers using a driver remover tool like this one http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html then reboot, then switch off and install the other GPU and install fresh drivers.

Out of curiosity, what are your temps like when you're running games?
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Is there any way you can borrow someone's graphics card and run that in your PC for a few hours to see if you still get the errors? Before installing another card you should completely uninstall the old graphics card drivers using a driver remover tool like this one http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html then reboot, then switch off and install the other GPU and install fresh drivers.

Out of curiosity, what are your temps like when you're running games?
 
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Thank you for the reply: I might be able to run my friend's graphics card (don't know the make but was bought around the same time as me and he has no issues.) but I am not sure I can do this anytime soon.

Tempertaures, I was just testing using Heaven 3.0. The GPU gets as hot as 70 degrees and the CPU 51 degrees
 
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Did you overclock your 660Ti? I had those same errors because my GPU was overclocked too much (ex: game crashes, blue screens, error messages). Also, download SlimDrivers (https://www.slimwareutilities.com/slimdrivers.php) and check if any of your drivers are out-dated.
 
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Hey no problem. I had the weirdest issue once with my 7950 where it crashed to black screens, loads of "livekernel event" errors and once crashed so badly it knocked out my storage HDD. It turned out to have been a Windows update for the WDDM 3.0 drivers (think it's an AMD thing) that would not play nicely with my hardware. Rolled back the update and haven't had a single issue since!

All you can do is systematically try to eliminate the cause by swapping out your GPU, test your RAM (a long-shot but possible), try some different drivers (though I bet you've done that already with all the Windows reinstalls) and failing that I'd be looking at your motherboard with some suspicion.

The good news is your temps are fine!
 
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Ok so I had 14 various drivers missing (not for the GPU) bit I updated everything anyway, still no difference Minecraft is crashing within a minute.

The card came Overclocked and I just leave it on the default I don't touch the settings as I don't know what I am doing with it (I'd expect it to come working without me having to play with these settings!)

I have tried all kinds of different drivers so sadly it isn't that and I am failing to see how it can be a hardware problem when they have all be tested and the results came back no problem. Surely this is a software problem?
 
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You could always try underclocking it, granted that's not desirable, but it's not difficult. Use MSI Afterburner and try that. I think you might have simply gotten a bad card. If underclocking doesn't work then I would just RMA it and get a different one.
 
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Before I go ahead and try a new card as that is a lot of work (I'll have to buy one and then there's all the hassle of sending it back if it doesn't work) is there any other suggestions I can try?
 
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Check to make sure all wires are in there correct spots and double/triple check all connections on the motherboard and power supply. Maybe a wires loose on the GPU power connector? Or it could be your power supply giving too much power (this is difficult to test and confirm w/o changing to a new PSU though).
 
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Sometimes you get a bad PSU, as in it's giving too much power to one component or not enough to it. But check the connections. And where did you buy this card? I can't find it anywhere.
 
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Ok so today I put in my friend's Radeon HD 7850 and Minecraft ran fine so I guess that confirms it's my 660 ti that's the problem. According to benchmark the 660 is meant to be more powerful than the 7850 so am really confused how my card can't run these games on the same settings. As I said I have taken my card to a specialist shop where they diagnosed my entire machine and found no hardware faults.

So is the next step just to buy a new card or is this a software setting?
 
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Is your 660 Ti out of warranty? Who is the manufacturer as most have a warranty of a few years? It would really suck if it has never worked properly and you have to buy a new one. It would be interesting to know whether your 660 Ti behaves itself in other PC's as that would imply some sort of fundamental incompatibility with your hardware, which is unusual but not unheard of.
 
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I used slimdrivers as recommended above and updated everything that was outdated which I believe included bios. I tried to contact Asus who have so far just ignored me (no response in over a day would have liked at least a confirmation that the email is at least being looked at).

I think maybe I was just unlucky, sadly I don't have another machine to try out the 660 in. I have just bought the Radeon R9 290 which should be here tomorrow, hopefully it wasn't a waste of money :/
 
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a game crashing has nothing to do with how powerful a card is, the 660ti is probably just faulty. You have just proved the "specialist shop" wrong with your testing with the amd card. If they just ran some diagnostic software it may not find the card faulty but the card can still fail in a particular game. One thing you could try is driversweeper to remove all old drivers, then clean install new drivers. I actually had endless issues with 2 different gigabyte gtx660's and the only thing to stop my games from crashing was to go to an amd card. Maybe the cards were fine and there was just some compatability bug with my particular rig, who knows.
 
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