Help 560Ti 1ghz Version Problem

[Stilletto]

I love this card.
BUT

It now has me worried....
I have never seen an artifact in the month that I have had it until tonight.
I tried to bring up several games but they would quickly artifact and crash....and a stability
test run showed massive artifacts and the continual "Nvidia display driver stopped responding.."
It has been days since the computer was last off.
A cold boot fixed the issue, at least so far.
I have heard that there is an issue with the 5xx series cards (bug, if you will) and that
this is known and rather comon. Can anyone confirm this or am I looking at a RMA?

[Dark Mantis]

Hi

There does seem to be a problem with these cards at the moment in so much as there are a lot of these type of posts coming on the forum. Whether it is a driver or firmware problem is hard to say at the moment but nobody seems to have a long term fix so far.

I would suggest tyhat you do a search of the forum and see what you can uncover.

[Stilletto]

Thank you for the response. I am having trouble pinning down my exact situation, as most people seem to be experiencing bad overclocks and/or bad hardware. My problem seemed to be remedied by a cold boot. I read somewhere in another forum, exactly which I can't remember, that this doesn't mean a bad card or OC, but simply the nature of the 5xx series as it is today....I am wondering, has anyone else had similar experiences, where they must cold boot twice a week to keep their GC from artifacting?

[Dark Mantis]

I take it from what you have said there that you leave the machine turned on alll the time and just let it enter sleep mode when not in use. Is that correct ?

[Stilletto]

Actually, it is a 24/7 machine. The monitor gets shut down when not in use,
but when I added the Gigabyte 560Ti it would no longer wake from sleep
reliably so now I just leave it on

[Dark Mantis]

In that case disable the power savings modes in the BIOS and see if that helps.