GTX480 Issue

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KingMikel

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Hey guys,

Last night I boot my pc up, get into CS:GO, and I play for not even 30 seconds. Then there's lag and the screen goes black like when you turn your pc off.

I reboot my pc and same story.

I ran a GPU stress tester and my GFX card went up to 96 deg, then my pc froze.

What do you guys think?

I think I should clean the fan out and repaste the fan on, but I dunno.

I can't afford a new card at this stage, and with NAG LAN @ rAge around the corner, I dunno wtf to do.

Please gimme advice!
 
Yes, get it nice and clean, new Thermal paste and it'll be good as new, let us know the temps after for interest sake
 
Thanks guys. I'm going to matrix later to have it blown out. I'll apply thermal paste etc once I'm home after that.
 
I have been dealing with this exact issue on a friend's GTX480 for about a month now.

He would play a game,after an uncertain amount of time the screen would go black and he would have to reboot.
On Windows 10 he would also get a driver not responding message from time to time instead of the black screen.

It seems to be an issue related to the 400 series cards and NVidia HD Audio on card.

He decided to replace the card,but I think I might have found the fix for it.

Sadly I haven't been able to try this fix,but I think it might be worth giving a shot as I have been researching it for a while now.

Here is the link:

http://forums.evga.com/PROCEEDURE-to-PERMANENTLY-DISABLE-THE-NVIDIA-HD-sound-deviceBLACK-SCREEN-amp-LOGIN-FIX-m586183.aspx

Good luck and if you try it,please post if this fix worked.

PS. Missed the bit about your temperature going to 96 degrees then freeze so first try what everybody else mentioned above.I cleaned my friend's card and that didn't solve the problem for him.
 
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absynth said:
It seems to be an issue related to the 400 series cards and NVidia HD Audio on card.

He decided to replace the card,but I think I might have found the fix for it.

Sadly I haven't been able to try this fix,but I think it might be worth giving a shot as I have been researching it for a while now.

Here is the link:

http://forums.evga.com/PROCEEDURE-to-PERMANENTLY-DISABLE-THE-NVIDIA-HD-sound-deviceBLACK-SCREEN-amp-LOGIN-FIX-m586183.aspx

Good luck and if you try it,please post if this fix worked.

PS. Missed the bit about your temperature going to 96 degrees then freeze so first try what everybody else mentioned above.I cleaned my friend's card and that didn't solve the problem for him.
Click to expand...

If you select the custom/advanced option during nvidia driver install you can opt not to install the audio drivers and a few other things like 3d support etc.
 
Hey guys,

I took it to Matrix Warehouse in Strubensvalley, the guy took it apart, blew it out with a blower, cleaned it and replaced the thermal paste.

The card hits 95 deg on the stress test now, no more laginess or anything anymore.

All of this cost me R50 :D They didn't wanna charge me, but I'm not bound to not pay someone who saved me a couple grand :D
 
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