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Hi guys. I bought an MSI Nvidia 1060 3GB less than a year ago and out of the blue it stopped working. I tried reinstalling drivers and resetting windows and came to the conclusion that it was just broken. I later decided to save up my money and just buy another one. So I did that but this doesn't work either. I don't know why this has happened. Whenever I right-click on the desktop I can't see the option for Nvidia Control panel and when I try to open it with Nvidia Geforce it says that I don't have an Nvidia card attached. In device manager it shows the card under display adapter but it has an error, code 43 with it. Before this card I had a AMD 7950 which worked fine but when I first upgraded to the 1060 it worked also so I am not sure why its decided to not work. I also try to update Nvidia Geforce but everytime I boot up it says I need to install the driver again. Windows itself gives me a notification that I must restart to finish preparing the 1060 but that shows up on each boot up. Please help I'm really freaking out about this. I've already posted this on reddit and got directed to here. I really hope you can help me.

[Edit] Here's the reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/6nlxsw/help_with_a_graphics_card_problem/

 

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4 minutes ago, Amaan5260 said:

Hi guys. I bought an MSI Nvidia 1060 3GB less than a year ago and out of the blue it stopped working. I tried reinstalling drivers and resetting windows and came to the conclusion that it was just broken. I later decided to save up my money and just buy another one. So I did that but this doesn't work either. I don't know why this has happened. Whenever I right-click on the desktop I can't see the option for Nvidia Control panel and when I try to open it with Nvidia Geforce it says that I don't have an Nvidia card attached. In device manager it shows the card under display adapter but it has an error, code 43 with it. Before this card I had a AMD 7950 which worked fine but when I first upgraded to the 1060 it worked also so I am not sure why its decided to not work. I also try to update Nvidia Geforce but everytime I boot up it says I need to install the driver again. Windows itself gives me a notification that I must restart to finish preparing the 1060 but that shows up on each boot up. Please help I'm really freaking out about this. I've already posted this on reddit and got directed to here. I really hope you can help me.

[Edit] Here's the reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/6nlxsw/help_with_a_graphics_card_problem/

 

i'd say that the pcie slot is broken, have you tested the cards in a different motherboard?

 

try to test a different gpu in the motherboard you have right now to see if it works (or any pcie device

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i'd say that the pcie slot is broken, have you tested the cards in a different motherboard?

 

try to test a different gpu in the motherboard you have right now to see if it works (or any pcie device

I have tried different slots with no positive result. My previous AMD card worked fine and when I first bought the 1060 it worked but then out of nowhere it stopped working. I don't have any other computers to test the card in unfortunately.

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Just now, Amaan5260 said:

I have tried different slots with no positive result. My previous AMD card worked fine and when I first bought the 1060 it worked but then out of nowhere it stopped working. I don't have any other computers to test the card in unfortunately.

then i wouldnt know what the problem is. do you know what motherboard you have?

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1 minute ago, Tauwer said:

then i wouldnt know what the problem is. do you know what motherboard you have?

I have a Gigabyte X79-UD3 according to Speccy

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2 minutes ago, Amaan5260 said:

I have a Gigabyte X79-UD3 according to Speccy

i can`t seem to find something for you i`m sorry 

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i can`t seem to find something for you i`m sorry 

Thanks anyway. Do you know of anyone else who could help me?

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What are your full system specs?

 

Have you tried uninstalling drivers with DDU and then reinstalling them?

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What are your full system specs?

 

Have you tried uninstalling drivers with DDU and then reinstalling them?

I have tried uninstalling drivers with DDU however whenever I try to boot into safe mode this happens. Comp.thumb.jpg.4626ffd647dd6f312521a755e293bc70.jpg

As for the specs:

Gigabyte X79-UD3

i7 3820

Nvidia GeForce Gtx 1060 3GB MSI
Sorry don't know the others as I can't access the computer because of the above picture

 

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8 minutes ago, Amaan5260 said:

I have tried uninstalling drivers with DDU however whenever I try to boot into safe mode this happens. Comp.thumb.jpg.4626ffd647dd6f312521a755e293bc70.jpg

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Sorry don't know the others as I can't access the computer because of the above picture

 

That's quite weird... does it boot into bios ok?

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Yes I can boot into Bios but I don't really know what I am looking at

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Yes I can boot into Bios but I don't really know what I am looking at

So you boot into bios and it looks messed up like this or something else?

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So you boot into bios and it looks messed up like this or something else?

No sorry I should have been more clear
I don't really know what I'm looking at because I'm not familiar with the bios menu and don't really know how to work it

It is fine though looks wise

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10 minutes ago, Amaan5260 said:

No sorry I should have been more clear
I don't really know what I'm looking at because I'm not familiar with the bios menu and don't really know how to work it

It is fine though looks wise

Do you have an old gpu that you could swap the 1060 with?

 

Also do you have any important data on your hard drive? Otherwise you might want to try to reinstall Windows.

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Do you have an old gpu that you could swap the 1060 with?

 

Also do you have any important data on your hard drive? Otherwise you might want to try to reinstall Windows.

I do have my old AMD HD 7950 and that works and I have also already tried reinstalling windows to no avail.

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7 hours ago, Amaan5260 said:

I do have my old AMD HD 7950 and that works and I have also already tried reinstalling windows to no avail.

Huh. Is there another machine you can test your 1060 on?

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3 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Huh. Is there another machine you can test your 1060 on?

No, sorry I know that isn't helpful.

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1 minute ago, Amaan5260 said:

No, sorry I know that isn't helpful.

You've tried different pcie slots, correct?

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You've tried different pcie slots, correct?

Yes I have

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On 7/16/2017 at 5:03 PM, Amaan5260 said:

Yes I have

Let me get this straight... So after you cleared cmos, you can go into the bios fine but if you try to boot into windows you get that weird screen?

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7 hours ago, DocSwag said:

Let me get this straight... So after you cleared cmos, you can go into the bios fine but if you try to boot into windows you get that weird screen?

Yeah booting into windows is when I get the weird screen

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Yeah booting into windows is when I get the weird screen

And clean install doesn't fix it? Does Linux have the same issue?

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And clean install doesn't fix it? Does Linux have the same issue?

Clean install has not fixed it and I haven't tried Linux mostly because I don't know how and wouldn't really want to use Linux.

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Clean install has not fixed it and I haven't tried Linux mostly because I don't know how and wouldn't really want to use Linux.

You could try an install of Linux just to see if it's a windows issue.

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3 hours ago, DocSwag said:

You could try an install of Linux just to see if it's a windows issue.

Is there a way I could do that and not lose all of my data?

 

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