nvidia driver problem maybe..

[danBrown]

Hi guys,

It's been happening for a while now but randomly my screen will freeze up and if there is music or a movie.. sound in general in the background it will stop and give that really annoying feedback tone... also the comp will completely freeze up sometimes ill have to restart the PC other times it fixes itself.

When it does fix itself it says "nvidia driver failed, but has recovered"... or something similar to that. My system is fine however the GPU is a few generations old, its a gigabyte gtx460.

my question is:
Does anybody know if the latest drivers seem to have problems with this card, or could it just be my card dying, or something else completely.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

DB

 

SYSTEM:

gigabyte z68-ud3r-b3 (before pcie 3.0)

2500k (4.5ghz)

hyper 212

Samsung 840 ssd

gigabyte gtx460

silverstone ST75F-P 750W

 

[skullbringer]

Is your graphics card oced? It might have degraded over time, as it is quite old and may not be stable at that clock any more...

[Godlygamer23]

The latest drivers seem to be having problems in general. It very well could be a driver related problem. But are there any overclocks done on this video card?

[AMD_Nemesis]

Driver version?

[danBrown]

sorry i should have mentioned. The card has never been overclocked and current driver GeForce 320.49

[Guest Nathanised]

Heh, funny you say that. I seem to be having the same issue. However my hardware and yours are very different.

[AMD_Nemesis]

sorry i should have mentioned. The card has never been overclocked and current driver GeForce 320.49

yeah I just got a 770 today with that driver runs fine for me did you just install it ?

[danBrown]

no i just update the drivers automatically when ever they are released. its been doing this ever since the released the 700 series. not sure if there is correlation there... but its just a little annoying. the card still plays games fine but should i consider upgrading to solve these problems? and which card would you suggest to upgrade to. no  preference for amd or nvidia. budget around $300

[AMD_Nemesis]

no i just update the drivers automatically when ever they are released. its been doing this ever since the released the 700 series. not sure if there is correlation there... but its just a little annoying. the card still plays games fine but should i consider upgrading to solve these problems? and which card would you suggest to upgrade to. no preference for amd or nvidia. budget around $300

Well you can get a 7970 for 300 ATM but i would just do a clean install before thinking of buying new hardware.

[TechFan@ic]

Rather than jumping the gun and upgrading now, just wait for AMD's new lineup of cards coming in October, they should drastically improve performance/price because of the new fabrication node.

In the mean time, revert back to the last stable Nvidia driver version, this is most likely caused by the new drivers for the 700 series, they've been causing serious issues and even damaging cards rendering them completely useless.

[danBrown]

*sigh* clean installs are annoying. alright. I suppose ill just do that, hopefully it will fix itself. and @ TechFan@ic that sounds like a good idea.

I might wait and maybe get a new card when BF4 comes out.

 

Thanks for your help forum members

[MegaDave91]

Very well could be a driver problem, but I use the latest drivers (326.41) and have zero problems with them. Of course, YMMV. I do find these drivers way better than the last two they put out.

 

Clean installs don't have to be annoying. Once you do it enough, it only takes a few minutes to delete all the Nvidia folders and registry entries. This way, at least you know you can eliminate a poor driver install out of the variable.