Hi folks, I'm new around here but am in desperate need of assistance.
I have decided on purchasing a brand new computer but having problems with this Gigabyte GTX260 NVidia card!!
Product Info
1) When I start my computer I need to press the Reset button on my PC 4-5 times before the graphics card will change display from orange light to green light (signifying the graphics card has been properly detected and working and thus displaying what is required).
When I restart my PC from Windows I sometimes need to do this too.
It's fairly random but most times I am required to reset my PC to get the graphics card going. I can confirm I don't have this problem with an older NVidia 7600 256M graphics card, it works first time-every time I start my PC or restart Windows and doesn't have this symptom.
2) When I am playing games (really the only reason I purchased this card), either the game won't start or game starts (with lower settings which I'm not happy about) but eventually crashes mainly due to Out of Memory error message.
There is 896M compared to my old NVidia 7600 with 256M!! More than double the megs! Now this shouldn't be happening with the RIG I got!! I was able to play the same games with the NVidia 7600, albeit with reduced frame rates but it was still playable and didn't crash like this GTX 260 is crashing.
3) The card makes a high pitch squealing noise a lot of the time when the card is being used in high demand like starting PC or playing a game. I am not impressed with this and believe this a design issue with the card.
Even though I recently purchased this card with my new computer I am concerned this card is faulty. Problem the shop I bought it from says if they test the card on another computer and doesn't show the symptoms I have described they will charge me $45 dollars Labour Fee to try and update/flash the BIOS on the GTX 260.
Now I believe I can flash the BIOS myself, I've tried looking on Gigabyte's website (www.gigabyte.com.au) but found only the GV-N26OC-896H model not GV-N26OC-896I model (my model) and wasn't sure whether I should update the BIOS using a slightly different model?
I am concerned if I use the incorrect BIOS I could void my card to being used as a floor scrubber!
So I would appreciate a step-by-step explanation of which program to use to flash my BIOS (a link to the program please?) as well as a link to the correct BIOS firmware (including the version of the BIOS so I can download it along with the flash program) and steps on how to do the flash BIOS (i.e. can it be done in Windows or do you need to restart PC with Floppy Disk and flash the BIOS using a Floppy Disk?).
Please take your time to explain the steps very carefully using as much detail as possible so that if the flashing of the GTX 260 BIOS doesn't solve the problem I can take it back to the shop to get it replaced. Just don't give me a short 1-2 line answer please!!
Also my motherboard is running the latest BIOS revision 5.04 so is the GTX 260. All my motherboard drivers are running the latest drivers.
I would REALLY appreciate if somebody could give me a step-by-step explanation as to what I need to do to make this card work without the symptoms on my PC before I RMA it as I am not happy about the performance of this card and is unacceptable as I am running the best motherboard my shop had as well as the best CPU and plenty of Kingston RAM and 900W Power supply.
There should be no reason for these symptoms to occur. Again I state that I don't have these symptoms using my three year old NVidia 7600.
Thanks for reading this long post and thanks for your upcoming reply! :-)
I have decided on purchasing a brand new computer but having problems with this Gigabyte GTX260 NVidia card!!
Product Info
- Product Line : Graphics Accelerator
- Model Name : GV-N26OC-896I
BIOS Ver : 62.00.50.00.02
Driver Ver : 6.14.11.9038
- CPU = Intel i7 2.6
- Motherboard = Asus P6T Deluxe V2
- RAM = 6 GIG Kingston (3 x 2 GIG sticks)
- Power Supply = 900W Seasonic
- OS = Windows XP SP3
- 1TB Western Digital HDD
- DirectX = 9.0c
1) When I start my computer I need to press the Reset button on my PC 4-5 times before the graphics card will change display from orange light to green light (signifying the graphics card has been properly detected and working and thus displaying what is required).
When I restart my PC from Windows I sometimes need to do this too.
It's fairly random but most times I am required to reset my PC to get the graphics card going. I can confirm I don't have this problem with an older NVidia 7600 256M graphics card, it works first time-every time I start my PC or restart Windows and doesn't have this symptom.
2) When I am playing games (really the only reason I purchased this card), either the game won't start or game starts (with lower settings which I'm not happy about) but eventually crashes mainly due to Out of Memory error message.
There is 896M compared to my old NVidia 7600 with 256M!! More than double the megs! Now this shouldn't be happening with the RIG I got!! I was able to play the same games with the NVidia 7600, albeit with reduced frame rates but it was still playable and didn't crash like this GTX 260 is crashing.
3) The card makes a high pitch squealing noise a lot of the time when the card is being used in high demand like starting PC or playing a game. I am not impressed with this and believe this a design issue with the card.
Even though I recently purchased this card with my new computer I am concerned this card is faulty. Problem the shop I bought it from says if they test the card on another computer and doesn't show the symptoms I have described they will charge me $45 dollars Labour Fee to try and update/flash the BIOS on the GTX 260.
Now I believe I can flash the BIOS myself, I've tried looking on Gigabyte's website (www.gigabyte.com.au) but found only the GV-N26OC-896H model not GV-N26OC-896I model (my model) and wasn't sure whether I should update the BIOS using a slightly different model?
I am concerned if I use the incorrect BIOS I could void my card to being used as a floor scrubber!
So I would appreciate a step-by-step explanation of which program to use to flash my BIOS (a link to the program please?) as well as a link to the correct BIOS firmware (including the version of the BIOS so I can download it along with the flash program) and steps on how to do the flash BIOS (i.e. can it be done in Windows or do you need to restart PC with Floppy Disk and flash the BIOS using a Floppy Disk?).
Please take your time to explain the steps very carefully using as much detail as possible so that if the flashing of the GTX 260 BIOS doesn't solve the problem I can take it back to the shop to get it replaced. Just don't give me a short 1-2 line answer please!!
Also my motherboard is running the latest BIOS revision 5.04 so is the GTX 260. All my motherboard drivers are running the latest drivers.
I would REALLY appreciate if somebody could give me a step-by-step explanation as to what I need to do to make this card work without the symptoms on my PC before I RMA it as I am not happy about the performance of this card and is unacceptable as I am running the best motherboard my shop had as well as the best CPU and plenty of Kingston RAM and 900W Power supply.
There should be no reason for these symptoms to occur. Again I state that I don't have these symptoms using my three year old NVidia 7600.
Thanks for reading this long post and thanks for your upcoming reply! :-)
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