- Feb 11, 2013
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I've recently purchased the GTX 660 to upgrade from my GTX 260. However, I've been getting a lot of technical issues following the installation. These include:
-the BSOD appearing after intense graphical lag (has happened ~3 times)
-slight graphical lag in game SOMETIMES, even on normal settings
-an error after booting up the computer that reads "A disk error error has occurred. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart"
-Windows occasionally not booting correctly & forcing me to restart- but this time without the disk read error
-the screen flashes with black lines after starting Windows
-on MSI Afterburner, the GPU usage % fluctuates greatly from ~0%-~95% without any games or videos up
These issues are not constant & many times, the GPU seems to be running fine. The disk read error occurs about 50% of the time.
This is what I've done to attempt to solve this issue:
-reinstalled the drivers for the 660 (multiple times actually.. all drivers are updated)
-did a clean space drive wipe from CCleaner
I am not overclocking the 660. Yes the 260's drivers are all uninstalled. Like I said, the troubles basically started right after I put in the new card. With the 260, I had driver issues where it would crash & then recover but I never got the BSOD. I tried looking everywhere for a solution but no one could really provide a good answer. Like.. is the problem my motherboard? I put together my desktop relatively recently and there were no real issues until now. I really don't want to do a fresh install of Windows & reformat or whatever.. if anyone strongly believes that will solve the issues, then let me know. However, I still think it's a problem with the motherboard.
My setup:
Motherboard- ASRock Z77 Extreme4
CPU- Intel i5 3570K
RAM- 8GB
PSU- Corsair CX600
HDD- WD Velociraptor 10000rpm 300GB
P.s. I'm not very tech savvy so I apologize if anything doesn't make sense..
-the BSOD appearing after intense graphical lag (has happened ~3 times)
-slight graphical lag in game SOMETIMES, even on normal settings
-an error after booting up the computer that reads "A disk error error has occurred. Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart"
-Windows occasionally not booting correctly & forcing me to restart- but this time without the disk read error
-the screen flashes with black lines after starting Windows
-on MSI Afterburner, the GPU usage % fluctuates greatly from ~0%-~95% without any games or videos up
These issues are not constant & many times, the GPU seems to be running fine. The disk read error occurs about 50% of the time.
This is what I've done to attempt to solve this issue:
-reinstalled the drivers for the 660 (multiple times actually.. all drivers are updated)
-did a clean space drive wipe from CCleaner
I am not overclocking the 660. Yes the 260's drivers are all uninstalled. Like I said, the troubles basically started right after I put in the new card. With the 260, I had driver issues where it would crash & then recover but I never got the BSOD. I tried looking everywhere for a solution but no one could really provide a good answer. Like.. is the problem my motherboard? I put together my desktop relatively recently and there were no real issues until now. I really don't want to do a fresh install of Windows & reformat or whatever.. if anyone strongly believes that will solve the issues, then let me know. However, I still think it's a problem with the motherboard.
My setup:
Motherboard- ASRock Z77 Extreme4
CPU- Intel i5 3570K
RAM- 8GB
PSU- Corsair CX600
HDD- WD Velociraptor 10000rpm 300GB
P.s. I'm not very tech savvy so I apologize if anything doesn't make sense..
I have used that driver version after wiping the new drivers but I still had issues. Worse comes to worse, I get a new mobo even though that's not what I want to do because I'd like a solution D: 
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