• Asus Geforce GTX 470 - Sudden artifacts and BSODs/lockups
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Hey there nice folks. Yesterday I suddenly got artifacts and after windows tried resetting the driver, eventually I got a BSOD. I decided to leave my desktop computer, and turn it off for the day. Now, I came back to it, hoping that it was just a temporarily overheating or such, but my hopes were crushed as just when I thought it was fine, then it did the same thing again. I started to try all the things I know to solve this, I did a clean driver install several times, even in safe mode. I uninstalled every piece of Nvidia software that I had, and then tried a new driver install. Didn't work, during these first tries the only time it ever artifacted and fucked up was in normal windows, before windows or in safe mode it did not have any problems. Seeing this I thought it had to be the drivers fault, so I redownloaded it and did a clean install, didn't worked. Rolled back to older versions, even to 302 meaning starting of 2012, no game there either. I installed Ubuntu to see if it was the windows driver fucking it up, and after I finally got the drivers installed on my ubuntu setup, it started to artifact just as with my windows installation. Meaning that something in the drivers that are universally shared is fucking up or that something in the drivers is causing a broken part or something like that to activate and it starts to artifact and eventually BSOD/lockup. After that I decided to try doing chkdsk /r /f, with no results. nvlddmkm.sys is the driver that lies behind the crash, or so the BSOD says. After this I started to look for solutions online, I did just about anything that seemed relevant. I tried a so-called fix online where you rename it, copy a similar file thats nvlddmkm.sy_ and use the command prompt to do an expand command on it, but it didn't work for me, complained about there is not an input file called nvlddmkm.sys, although I typed nvlddmkm.sy_ as the input file parameter. Most other ones were pretty similar to what I tried, tried some of them but with no results. There was one that seemed promising but it just took longer time then it otherwise did (before artifacting and crashing), and that was I put on the diagnostic boot setting in MSCONFIG. So doing all this has let me to believe either the PSU cables somewhere are not working properly or my graphics card is kaputt. But as a last resort I decided to turn myself to you fine folks and see what you think. I am really hoping it's nothing hardware-related because currently I cannot afford to buy a new graphics card, I know it might sound stupid to hope so, but eh, I try to be certaincy positive even though I will with almost be shot down about it. Now the artifacting is happening more commonly, and seems like it affects even after a reboot, but when it does or not is random. Sometimes it follows, sometimes it doesn't in varying degrees. Any help or opinions on this matter will be very appreciated! [B]EDIT:[/B] I have right now disabled the drivers through device manager, it seem to work but I can't do anything really. [B]EDIT 2: [/B]Thinking of baking the card as a last measure, but I want you guys opinion first.
You mentioned once saying that you wondered if the card was temporarily overheating, have you checked the temps?
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;40267010]You mentioned once saying that you wondered if the card was temporarily overheating, have you checked the temps?[/QUOTE] Yeah, the hottest I had was ~66C under pressure. Could spike a bit higher but around there.
As far as I know, nothing is universally shared between drivers on different operating systems but I could be wrong. It's possible that the card is damaged. If it's still under warranty, you should try get a replacement or repair
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;40267123]As far as I know, nothing is universally shared between drivers on different operating systems but I could be wrong. It's possible that the card is damaged. If it's still under warranty, you should try get a replacement or repair[/QUOTE] I think it just stopped being in warranty.. Should I consider baking it?
You might have a virus or something that's interfering with your drivers, OR either the card became damaged of a extremely high temperature, did you ever gave your system a GOOD cleaning? Dust buildup can become fatal in a year without maintenance. In a dusty room like mine the minimum maintenance frequency would be once per month.
[QUOTE=Merijnwitje;40276323]You might have a virus or something that's interfering with your drivers, OR either the card became damaged of a extremely high temperature, did you ever gave your system a GOOD cleaning? Dust buildup can become fatal in a year without maintenance. In a dusty room like mine the minimum maintenance frequency would be once per month.[/QUOTE] But seeing it happen on a freshly installed Ubuntu, makes me not think that's the case. It was around 2 months ago since I cleaned it.
Did you ever take out your GPU to examine it? Sometimes just simply observing the entire card, with a flashlight, preferably LED can help you spot a bad card. It is possible to take off the fan/heatsink of a GPU card, however extremely difficult that may be, IDK. You could do a fresh install to your HDD of your current Windows OS. Did your BSOD entail and specific details? Such as "your gpu card has srsly error'd itself up, yo" but in super technical terms? One last idea, take your GPU out, put it in the freezer for about 5 mins, take out, reinsert into computer, boot up. And see if the super cold allows it to run for an allotted time before another BSOD.
[QUOTE=Leat;40281290] You could do a fresh install to your HDD of your current Windows OS. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=IAmAnooB;40276804]But seeing it happen on a freshly installed Ubuntu, makes me not think that's the case.[/QUOTE]
What I don't understand the most about this, is that when the drivers are deactivated it is 100% stable, it has been on for over 30+ hours and still trucking along. How can it break in such a precise way?
Don't install the most updated drivers, install the drivers previous to the current ones. Only other idea, is to make sure there is no power to your pc, via unplug it, no battery if it's a laptop, etc. Hit the power button like 15 times. Then plug it back in. It may be stuck in the RAM or in the Video RAM. Whatever it is.
[QUOTE=Leat;40296454]Don't install the most updated drivers, install the drivers previous to the current ones. Only other idea, is to make sure there is no power to your pc, via unplug it, no battery if it's a laptop, etc. Hit the power button like 15 times. Then plug it back in. It may be stuck in the RAM or in the Video RAM. Whatever it is.[/QUOTE] I tried going back to drivers from January 2012. Going to try the memory thing later.
My old 450 used to artifact everytime Nvidia would update, then if I updated, I was good until the next update.
Solved it by baking! I feel so fucking awesome now! [video=youtube;E-WHW-QNswE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-WHW-QNswE[/video]
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