• New GTX 780 BSOD
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So I just got my new Gigabyte GTX 780 (GV-N780GHZ-3GD) yesterday, and I uninstalled my old AMD Radeon HD 6970 drivers and replaced the graphics card, booted up the PC and installed the nvidia drivers from the disc. Everything worked fine and I updated to the newest drivers (335.23) and then after playing BF4 for about 20-30 minutes my computer will blue screen. I restarted my PC and reverted to driver (332.21) that my friend recommended and the same issue happens. I thought that it could possibly be overheating so I set the fan speed up to about 80% and the problem persisted. I haven't had the time to test out other games (I will try more graphics intensive games like Crysis 3 later) but I am afraid the issue will persist. Does anyone have any insight on this problem or any possible solution? Thank you. [B]Edit:[/B] When I get home I will try to upload my minidump I got from the BSOD. Forgot to post my specs: CPU: i5 2500k (clock speeds) PSU: Corsair TX series 650w RAM: HyperX Blu 4GB (2 x 2GB) HDD: WD Black 500GB GFX: GTX 780 (model number above) It also might be worth noting that the temp's would get up to about 135°F under load but then drop down to about 100°F and lower when idle, I can get more specific temps later.
Well, it's certainly not a heat issue because 135F is around 57C. Like you said, test out a bunch of other games first (not just Crysis 3, but anything and everything in your Steam library that could make a good stress test). The only other thing I can think to do would be to use one of those video card overclocking programs to lower the voltage or the clock speed and see if that makes a difference. MSI Afterburner works well with GPUs from other manufacturers if I recall.
[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;44688181]Well, it's certainly not a heat issue because 135F is around 57C. Like you said, test out a bunch of other games first (not just Crysis 3, but anything and everything in your Steam library that could make a good stress test). The only other thing I can think to do would be to use one of those overclocking programs to lower the voltage or the clock speed and see if that makes a difference. MSI Afterburner works well with GPUs from other manufacturers if I recall.[/QUOTE] Thanks, I'll try that when I get home. It could just be BF4 being BF4 but I'll post the results later.
Download and run valley benchmark for a good stress test.
[QUOTE=Levelog;44689988]Download and run valley benchmark for a good stress test.[/QUOTE] Does it monitor temps as well? I'll try this out when I get home as well, I'm hoping its just something with BF4 because it would be a pain to have to RMA the card.
I'm 90% sure it does. And it can stress it as long as necessary. If you get 4 hours into valley without a crash or overheating, it's probably just BF4
I tried several different games and the blue screen still happens, I still need to try the valley benchmark though it might possibly show me my real time temperatures and if it does I can post them here. [B]Edit: [/B]It appears that I fixed the issue by using drivers sweeper to completely remove the AMD drivers (previously I had done it through the GUI, never doing that again) and reinstalled the newest nvidia drivers and it appears to be working. I was able to play for about 4 hours last night where previously it would BSOD after 45 minutes. Something that also might be worth noting - I was OC'ing my Ram a bit and I reset my BIOS to factory default. I dont know which fixed it but I assume the driver sweep. Thanks everyone for the good suggestions.
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