june gloom on 1/9/2011 at 04:52
At least, as far as I can tell. It only happens when I'm running Firefox with hardware acceleration on.
Basically the video goes bloop, comes back a second later, I get a message about the driver crashing and recovering, there's a couple hundred fucked up pixels that move around and disappear as stuff on the monitor changes. Saw a flash of blue artifacting before I rebooted the first time.
Changing the option in Firefox then rebooting seems to have fixed the problem, but I still see the pixels for a minute upon starting Windows.
Kind of concerned.
Okay, full story:
Running an EVGA GTX 560 Ti, not overclocked, running 275.33 after rolling back from the busted 280.xx. PSU: Cooler Master Silent Pro M600 RS-600-AMBA-D3 600W, 40A on +12v, .5A on -12V. Whole thing's running W7 Home Premium SP1 64bit.
Before the rollback, it crashed any old time it felt like. After, it was fine. Then, tonight, I noticed a little box that showed text from a Firefox tab. Closing the tab the text was from did not kill the box. Closing other tabs, same deal. Close Firefox- BAM, driver crashes and recovers. Happened again when running Firefox a few minutes later. Saw artifacts and flashing pixels. Rebooted. Saw flashing pixels on desktop. Got on IE, searched around, internet told me disable Firefox's hardware acceleration. Did that. Rebooted. Pixels on desktop, they disappear after a few minutes. No black screens anymore, but I still have random pixels. Turned off Aero and went to Windows 7 Basic, brought up the default W7 desktop, lots of purple pixels, like a certain range of colors couldn't be displayed. Purple lines and dots on everything, unless I run a program that kicks in the UAC "you wanna run this? you sure?" menu which dims the screen. On Aero and sometimes on Basic, menus will go blank if you move the mouse over them.
Gonna try and run a game and see what happens but this is fucking pissing me off. I'm tempted to RMA this thing, get my money back, and buy some other card.
june gloom on 1/9/2011 at 07:00
... So I tried out Bastion, purple pixels everywhere, closed out pretty quickly, did some more digging, found a thread on the Nvidia forums that suggests that there's a series-wide issue with the 500s where if you go without a complete shutdown for about a week, the card starts flipping out.
So I shut it down and read the first chapter of Deus Ex: Icarus Effect (not bad so far btw) and came back about an hour and a half later and everything's fine, even Bastion.
Hell if I know.
Renzatic on 2/9/2011 at 01:18
Hell if I know indeed.
You've got something screwy going on with your graphics card, and it's something more than a factory/driver defect that forces you to reboot once a week. Considering you were experiencing similar problems with it practically since day one, you're likely to start seeing more of them in the coming weeks.
Not to be a buzzkill, but...eh. I went through something similar when my old 7900GT crapped out on me. I'd suggest going ahead and getting the thing RMA'ed just to be done with it.
edit: This just occurred to me. You're on an old CRT monitor, right? Have you tried using another DVI-VGA adapter? Or hell, another cable? Kinda doubtful this is it, but it's worth a go.
june gloom on 2/9/2011 at 02:12
No, I just got the new LCD I showed you.
The first go-round was definitely a busted driver- I was fine after a rollback.
The latter issue seems to be an issue with EVGA 500s. It's fine so long as you give it a break every so often. Thusly, I'm not going to go to the hassle of RMAing this thing. I'll just shut down once a week and read a book or sleep or something.
If the interval starts to shorten, I'll consider getting something else.
