Faulty or can it happen?

cHk4 · 13 Jan 2011 at 09:35

Ok I have a GTX580 other than my initial problem everything has been brilliant.

Turned off my PC as normal last night and when I woke up I turned it on and halfway through booting the screen went funny and then the PC restarted itself. Thought nothing of it. Anyway get in to Windows fine and load up a game, when the loading screen appears I get these white things all over the screen, not one or two but loads of them and then my whole system crashed. I tried booting up again and loading in to the game and everything seemed fine.

Never had this happen before so just wanted to check.

Thanks

cHk4 · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:05

Guess I'll try again if it happens I'll have to return it

Phatzy · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:08

Do a memtest, check all temps. But it does sound like the GPU is starting to fail or under a lot of heat.

Awahwah · 13 Jan 2011 at 16:11

It could be the start of a failure.

Are you overclocking the GPU? if so, back off a little.

Complete driver removal and re-install, maybe.

cHk4 · 13 Jan 2011 at 18:06

Ok I'll check the mem test.

I've just checked and everything is at stock so will see how it goes.

cHk4 · 17 Jan 2011 at 18:06

What should I download to do a memtest as this is happening more often now in all games I play

Temp on GPU was 60 when it just happened.

Craig321 · 17 Jan 2011 at 18:10

RMA it. Just to be sure, I would reinstall the graphic drivers before you do - check the clean install option. Probably won't make a difference, but better than the RMA being rejected and wasted postage/charges if it is just drivers.

cHk4 · 17 Jan 2011 at 18:14

Craig321 said:
RMA it. Just to be sure, I would reinstall the graphic drivers before you do - check the clean install option. Probably won't make a difference, but better than the RMA being rejected and wasted postage/charges if it is just drivers.

Hi mate do you mean driver cleaner type thing?

Thanks

Mr Krugga · 17 Jan 2011 at 18:15

Did you overclock vram on the card?

Craig321 · 17 Jan 2011 at 18:15

cHk4 said:
Hi mate do you mean driver cleaner type thing?

Thanks

When installing Nvidia drivers these days it will give you the option of doing a clean install.

cHk4 · 17 Jan 2011 at 19:57

Mr Krugga said:
Did you overclock vram on the card?

It's all at stock mate.

Craig321 said:
When installing Nvidia drivers these days it will give you the option of doing a clean install.

Will have a look

It's really strange, I can sometimes run a game 3 mins later it happens or I can play for hours -.-

Craig321 · 17 Jan 2011 at 20:19

cHk4 said:
It's all at stock mate.

Will have a look

It's really strange, I can sometimes run a game 3 mins later it happens or I can play for hours -.-

I had similar with my 8800GTX back when it was about a year old. Games would just crash and give the nvlddmkm.sys error message and it would sometimes freeze or restart the computer.

I tried everything, and could sometimes even run FurMark overnight no problems, but other times it would crash after a couple of minutes.

Unfortunately graphic cards are one of those things that can go partially wrong which makes them very difficult to troubleshoot, especially when drivers can cause a lot of problems themselves.

If you have reinstalled your graphic drivers, and run tests such as FurMark and are still getting the issue, then just RMA it.

JPNUFC · 17 Jan 2011 at 20:30

As the guys above said do a mem test and do a clean install of the GPU drivers to see if it solves it if not then RMA it!!

cHk4 · 17 Jan 2011 at 22:40

Is that the right thing to download to test mem?

Phatzy · 17 Jan 2011 at 22:47

google memtest86+ burn to CD-R. reboot and boot off the burned CD. Give it atlease a few hours to test.
Edit: Now you can install to USB stick and boot off it that way.

Cant give direct link as it is hot linking.

Craig321 · 19 Jan 2011 at 20:19

Phatzy said:
google memtest86+ burn to CD-R. reboot and boot off the burned CD. Give it atlease a few hours to test.
Edit: Now you can install to USB stick and boot off it that way.

Cant give direct link as it is hot linking.

OP, note: this is a PC memory test, not a graphic card test. I.e. if it fails then you have a faulty stick of RAM.

Or does memtest86+ test GPU now as well?

appletree · 19 Jan 2011 at 23:05

Hello, I see you are running highly overclocked i7. While it has most likely nothing to do with your problems I would make sure that you can reproduce the crashing bug with CPU at stock settings before RMA - just to be sure.

cHk4 · 20 Jan 2011 at 17:24

Craig321 said:
OP, note: this is a PC memory test, not a graphic card test. I.e. if it fails then you have a faulty stick of RAM.

Or does memtest86+ test GPU now as well?

Have not managed to test this yet been a little busy

appletree said:
Hello, I see you are running highly overclocked i7. While it has most likely nothing to do with your problems I would make sure that you can reproduce the crashing bug with CPU at stock settings before RMA - just to be sure.

Hi mate, forgot to edit signature, CPU is at stock due to issues.

Seems BFBC2 was run today with no issues. Apparently the WSOD was a driver issue with the 580. Still doesn't explain the artefacts I've been getting on WoW and the crashing.

Thanks everyone for your help and advice.

cHk4 · 2 Feb 2011 at 11:58

Ok have tested this lots on many different games and the only crashing I get is on WoW. I can game for 1 min and it happen or 10 hours and it happen. Can play for 2-3 days and it not happen.

BFBC2 and any other game I've tried works fine, no crashing, artifacting etc. After searching around it seems a fair few people have this with their GTX580 and WoW.

Just thought I'd post an update in case anyone searched and had the same problem as me.

buttkinz · 3 Feb 2011 at 00:53

Put it in the oven lol, fixes the bumpgate issues around gas Mark 6