Problem w/ GeForce GTX 970

[cubies1982]

Hey,

 

So I've had a EVGA GeForce GTX 970 since May of this year and it's been working perfectly fine playing hours of Final Fantasy 14. But for the past month it's been giving me a lot of problems. The first problem was Windows 7 trying to eject the GPU as a removable device.

 

Now I tried switching out to different graphic cards and when I went back to the original card Windows loaded with a really low resolution and when I checked Device Manager I got a new error message now.

 

I'm currently using on-board graphics using a HDMI cable until I find a solution.

[Shadow Ghost]

you seem to have went past the 3.5 GB thresh hold 

[Quinnbeast]

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/861231/nvidia-amp-windows-10-how-i-solved-the-code-43-error-/

 

Are you using Win 10 by any chance?

[Quinnbeast]

you seem to have went past the 3.5 GB thresh hold 

 

LOL. Yeah, that's exactly what happens when you hit 3.5 Gig VRAM useage*. Your PC ejects your GPU across the room in disgust.

 

* This of course has categorically nothing to do with VRAM usage. I couldn't  figure out if the above quote was a troll or not.

[cubies1982]

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/861231/nvidia-amp-windows-10-how-i-solved-the-code-43-error-/

 

Are you using Win 10 by any chance?

 

I'm using Windows 7.

[stealth80]

erm I've had over 4gb usage with my 970gtx and never had such issues. You tried swapping the driver out?

[Fluxx]

Maybe the PCI Express slot is causing it, have you tried a different one?

[Quinnbeast]

http://windows-exe-errors.com/how-to-fix-error-code-43-in-windows-7/

 

Most of this points towards a driver conflict of some sort, probably the easiest part to troubleshoot at least. You mentioned switching out GPU - have you done a clean install of the driver each time? And if you've changed from one to the other, have you definitely removed any/all drivers that are no longer needed?