Drivers wont install (dead gpu's?)

aara0123

aara0123

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I went today to install the new beta drivers for my sli'd 260m's (both previously overclocked but have been at stock settings for a couple of weeks now), but the installation process was dreadfully slower than usual and eventually the installer would simply say installation has failed. At first I thought it was just because the drivers were in beta state so I cleaned, rebooted, installed the previous version I had (the 260.99's). Again, same issue.

I've had an issue in the past where my 9400m chipset would cause me trouble while it was enabled along with the 260m's. So I cleaned the drivers (or what was left of them), tried to install the betas; and again the installation froze on the same part, but this time the screen turned black and a second later red gpu artifacts and two green lines at the top and bottom of the screen appear. The screen flashes black and I'm back to my normal desktop with the installer telling me the installation had failed.

NOW I'm starting to really worry, I have recently noticed my gpu temps reaching over 100 degrees when the fans would randomly stop spinning (I found this was certain CPU overclock frequencies causing the gpu fans to stop spinning for whatever reason). Since then I've kept the cpu at stock settings and the fans work normally but occasionally will malfunction and not spin. I fear that my cards are dead or likely dying, anyone have any ideas?

I just hope I'm not stuck with a massive netbook now.

Specs are listed in my sig.
 
Artifacts are usually a very bad sign, couple that with the issues you've listed and the outlook isn't great. :( When you say cleaned the drivers, did you use driver sweeper? Did you try re-downloading the driver installer? Those are the only two things I can think of that may help.
 
CardboardSword said:
Artifacts are usually a very bad sign, couple that with the issues you've listed and the outlook isn't great. :( When you say cleaned the drivers, did you use driver sweeper? Did you try re-downloading the driver installer? Those are the only two things I can think of that may help.
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Yup, always used driver sweeper. It's odd but this may be a blessing in disguise, I was gonna buy a new pc anyway but sell my laptop first. Good thing I didn't sell.

Funny thing though, the artifacts only appeared once and havn't shown up since, I'm hoping it was a one time thing.

I'll try those things and see if they will help.
 
Everythings up and running again, I reverted to the 197 drivers and things are working fine for now.

Update: reverted to the 260.89 version drivers, perhaps it was just an nvidia installer anomaly but things are back to normal now!
 
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Good to hear, sometimes these things get corrupted somewhere along the line. Maybe you should go ahead and spoil yourself with a new computer anyway? I'm not a huge fan of laptops, high power or not. If something like this happened on a desktop, you're a graphics card away from being up to full speed again, instead of a whole new computer. Regardless, glad to hear its worked out for you. :)
 
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