Faulty GTX 460?

[Uggers]

Hey all,

I'm having a few problems with my latest purchase. I recently got the 1GB Gigabyte GTX 460. Unfortunately though, I seem to be seemingly having a few problems with it, however I am not 100% sure if I am starting to see problems where there aren't any or it sounds like a fault with the card.

For reference I am running:

• Core 2 Quad Q9550
• Asus P5K-E Wifi-AP
• x2 2gb Sticks of OCZ Ram
  
• A 4 Week old Corsair TX650w Psu
• 1GB Gigabyte GTX 460
• Windows 7 Professional 64bit

Windows is up to date
I have the latest Nvidia drivers (258.96) and the latest BIOS for the Graphics card (haven't flashed it was upto date on purchase)

Right and now to the problems.

The card itself doesn't seem to run extra hot and seems to be about right for the benchmarks and other examples people have mentioned for it.
However sometimes I see to have a whining fan. I cannot isolate it specifically but it seems to be on of the GPU ones, When I attempt to check the case to hunt it down It always seems to stop whining just as I look around, it must know I'm hunting for it : >:(

I've run the latency checker mention on this forum and it happily sits around 150-300, so happily sitting in the green.

The main problem per say is, when I boot into windows I often get a black screen after the 'Welcome' windows, It responds just as though the Monitor was on standby however the light on the monitor doesn't flick on and off as it does when it is.
A quick move of the mouse and I'd say about 10-30 seconds later and everything is running fine.
Sometimes it won't happen, sometimes it will. This morning I saw the desktop briefly for 2 seconds before it went black then returned about 15 seconds later.

Secondly sometimes the text looks a bit out of focus, I guess the best description would be someone setting up the ClearType font thing really badly.

Any advice or suggestion to try would be greatly appreciated.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

However sometimes I see to have a whining fan. I cannot isolate it specifically but it seems to be on of the GPU ones, When I attempt to check the case to hunt it down It always seems to stop whining just as I look around, it must know I'm hunting for it

 Yes they can be craft little bu**ers. You have to corner them first

Seriously what is probably happening is that the sound is there all the time but as you move your head it gets cancelled out as it is a waveform. It will bounce around the inside of your case and be difficult to locate. All I can suggest that you do is to momentarily stop the fan when you can hear the noise and see if the noise stops also.

The other problems sound more like driver or cable problems.

[Dark Mantis]

Another thing you might want to try regarding the screen problems is to disable the power saving modes in the BIOS and see if that makes a difference. C1E, C3, C5 etc

[Uggers]

I gave the beta drivers 260 a go and it 'seems' touch wood ok at the moment.

I had the power saving turned of a while ago

As for the fan, it seems to have settled down a bit, I guess it was wearing in a bit

[Dark Mantis]

Oh well at least that's good news. Please just keep us updated if anything changes.

[Badbonji]

You can get MSI Afterburner and change the fan profile to make it quieter. I set mine so that it only hits 50%-60% fan speed in most games which doesn't bother me too much. I would make the fan spin at 100% once it reaches about 90-95C though so it prevents overheating.