I recently received a replacement motherboard from GIGABYTE as my previous board was ultimately broken beyond repair. When I tried using it, while my computer was loading Windows it seemed to lose the signal to my monitor and not fix itself. I tried loading in Safe Mode and it worked properly, everything displayed fine. I tried uninstalling my nvidia drivers. When I started up regularly I was able to load my computer fine. Upon trying to reinstall the latest drivers I would have the same problem. It would either lose signal to the monitor or it would bluescreen. I tried with other drivers to ensure the specific driver wasn't the problem, to no avail.
Since my motherboard was new (it was the same model but different unit and revision) I wondered if perhaps something that was previously installed was causing a problem, so I reformatted my computer and reinstalled windows 7. After installing an updated video driver I began having the problems again. At one point in time I looked at my device manager and saw that my graphics adapter was displaying "Code 43: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems." I looked it on the internet to find some information on this and came up with some material. In particular I was following this guide by EVGA: FAQ ID # 59308 - Device Manager reports "Code 43" error - Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems.
As the guide describes, I tried reseating the hardware, cleaning out the slots with compressed air which did not fix it. I tried updating the chipset drivers for my motherboard and had already tried a clean install of windows, neither of which worked. I tried placing my video card in my other PCIe x16 slot (this slot has 4 lanes), and it worked fine. I could update my graphics drivers and it displayed as it normally should. I tried using a separate (known to be working) video card in my possibly faulty PCIe x16 slot and after updating to appropriate graphics drivers for this card in safe mode, I tried starting my computer normally. I had the same problems as before, either lost signals or bluescreens; at any rate not working.
Before I last RMA'd my motherboard and received this replacement, all my other pieces of hardware were known to be working fine. I don't like the idea of finally receiving a replacement for my original faulty motherboard only to get another bad board, but it's looking like that is the case.
Before I pull the trigger and send in for a new RMA on something that should have been a fresh board, I'd like the some qualified advice to look at the case and give their opinion on if this is a the obvious verdict or if there is possibly more to try.
Since my motherboard was new (it was the same model but different unit and revision) I wondered if perhaps something that was previously installed was causing a problem, so I reformatted my computer and reinstalled windows 7. After installing an updated video driver I began having the problems again. At one point in time I looked at my device manager and saw that my graphics adapter was displaying "Code 43: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems." I looked it on the internet to find some information on this and came up with some material. In particular I was following this guide by EVGA: FAQ ID # 59308 - Device Manager reports "Code 43" error - Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems.
As the guide describes, I tried reseating the hardware, cleaning out the slots with compressed air which did not fix it. I tried updating the chipset drivers for my motherboard and had already tried a clean install of windows, neither of which worked. I tried placing my video card in my other PCIe x16 slot (this slot has 4 lanes), and it worked fine. I could update my graphics drivers and it displayed as it normally should. I tried using a separate (known to be working) video card in my possibly faulty PCIe x16 slot and after updating to appropriate graphics drivers for this card in safe mode, I tried starting my computer normally. I had the same problems as before, either lost signals or bluescreens; at any rate not working.
Before I last RMA'd my motherboard and received this replacement, all my other pieces of hardware were known to be working fine. I don't like the idea of finally receiving a replacement for my original faulty motherboard only to get another bad board, but it's looking like that is the case.
Before I pull the trigger and send in for a new RMA on something that should have been a fresh board, I'd like the some qualified advice to look at the case and give their opinion on if this is a the obvious verdict or if there is possibly more to try.