Hi,
I have been having problems with getting my Nvidia GTS 450 graphics card functioning properly.
Here are my specs: (If you need more, do ask)
PC Model: HP Minitower DC7800
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz Q6600
RAM: 2GB DDR2
PSU: Alpine 700W - swapped out old PSU because it did not meet the wattage requirement for the new gfx card.
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Graphics card: nVidia GTS 450 by eVGA
When the card arrived I tried to fit it and realised it would not fit in because there was components in the way.
I then purchaced a flexible PCI-e riser from xcase and then the card fit. I connected the card to my monitor (IBM) with a
VGA to DVI adapter. I then booted up and proceeded to install the drivers from the CD that came with my graphics card. I
rebooted and with the drivers I noticed that the screen was less sharp than it should have been and running anything GPU-
intensive for more than 20 seconds causes a "driver stopped responding then recovered successfully" error, so I decided to
grab the "latest" driver from the eVGA website as illustrated by the instruction manual. The 296.10 driver installed
successfully after I fixed another problem where the card displayed nothing (not connected properly). I believe the image was
sharper than the drivers that came on the CD.
I also had another problem that I believe was solved by disabling an audio driver - any game would lockup the PC after ten
seconds of playing it.
The problem is, I realised that when running a game, Minecraft, for more than five minutes, the screen would lock up like the
GPU was sending a static image. It appears that behind the screen everything was still functioning normally, because pressing
the power button once would make the computer switch off after a moment, as it should. It is not just on Minecraft, but it
would freeze after a few minutes of watching videos on YouTube too, and sometimes when browsing the internet and sometimes on
the Windows loading screen.
I have researched the problem and discovered that one of the reasons for this happening could be insufficient power being
delivered to the gfx card or insufficient RAM. I do not think power is a problem as I have a 700W, known-to-be-reliable power
supply and the graphics card I believe only requires 400W at peak. I also do not think that RAM is a problem because when
running FurMark, a GPU-stressing benchmarker, it still freezes up - why would a simple floating circle require that much RAM
as to freeze the screen?
I am new to all this so please bear with me and do not refrain from asking more questions.
Thanks, Jishaxe.
I have been having problems with getting my Nvidia GTS 450 graphics card functioning properly.
Here are my specs: (If you need more, do ask)
PC Model: HP Minitower DC7800
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz Q6600
RAM: 2GB DDR2
PSU: Alpine 700W - swapped out old PSU because it did not meet the wattage requirement for the new gfx card.
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Graphics card: nVidia GTS 450 by eVGA
When the card arrived I tried to fit it and realised it would not fit in because there was components in the way.
I then purchaced a flexible PCI-e riser from xcase and then the card fit. I connected the card to my monitor (IBM) with a
VGA to DVI adapter. I then booted up and proceeded to install the drivers from the CD that came with my graphics card. I
rebooted and with the drivers I noticed that the screen was less sharp than it should have been and running anything GPU-
intensive for more than 20 seconds causes a "driver stopped responding then recovered successfully" error, so I decided to
grab the "latest" driver from the eVGA website as illustrated by the instruction manual. The 296.10 driver installed
successfully after I fixed another problem where the card displayed nothing (not connected properly). I believe the image was
sharper than the drivers that came on the CD.
I also had another problem that I believe was solved by disabling an audio driver - any game would lockup the PC after ten
seconds of playing it.
The problem is, I realised that when running a game, Minecraft, for more than five minutes, the screen would lock up like the
GPU was sending a static image. It appears that behind the screen everything was still functioning normally, because pressing
the power button once would make the computer switch off after a moment, as it should. It is not just on Minecraft, but it
would freeze after a few minutes of watching videos on YouTube too, and sometimes when browsing the internet and sometimes on
the Windows loading screen.
I have researched the problem and discovered that one of the reasons for this happening could be insufficient power being
delivered to the gfx card or insufficient RAM. I do not think power is a problem as I have a 700W, known-to-be-reliable power
supply and the graphics card I believe only requires 400W at peak. I also do not think that RAM is a problem because when
running FurMark, a GPU-stressing benchmarker, it still freezes up - why would a simple floating circle require that much RAM
as to freeze the screen?
I am new to all this so please bear with me and do not refrain from asking more questions.
Thanks, Jishaxe.