Has my Windforce GTX 670 suddenly gone bad?

[IT Troll]

Has my Windforce GTX 670 suddenly gone bad? No just malware.

I have had the card installed since release and now all of the sudden I am getting driver recovery events every 5-15 minutes at the desktop when doing basic web browsing, document editing, etc.

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

I am running BIOS F4, GeForce 314.07 and Windows 8 64-bit. I have tried down clocking the core and memory speeds to the minimum and also boosting the voltage and power to the maximum. But this doesn't help. I have been running 314.07 since 2/3/2013 but the crashing has only started in the last couple of days. I can't think of anything else that has changed.

If I monitor with Afterburner I can see that the usage and clocks all max out and stay like that until I move the mouse at which point the driver restarts.



Any ideas?

 

[opethdisciple]

I have had the card installed since release and now all of the sudden I am getting driver recovery events every 5-15 minutes at the desktop when doing basic web browsing, document editing, etc.

Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

I am running BIOS F4, GeForce 314.07 and Windows 8 64-bit. I have tried down clocking the core and memory speeds to the minimum and also boosting the voltage and power to the maximum. But this doesn't help. I have been running 314.07 since 2/3/2013 but the crashing has only started in the last couple of days. I can't think of anything else that has changed.

If I monitor with Afterburner I can see that the usage and clocks all max out and stay like that until I move the mouse at which point the driver restarts.



Any ideas?

Sorry I cant help.

But this is why I personally am adverse to mucking about with oc'ing my gpu.

 

[youdsy]

try different driver

310.90 is what im using. new ones are terrible

 

[Suarez7]

Sorry I cant help.

But this is why I personally am adverse to mucking about with oc'ing my gpu.

I've always overclocked my GPU's since my x700 lol which was like 2004? Never had one break, I've been quite lucky I think.

 

[Rilot]

I had something similar once. It turned out to be a stick of RAM going bad and causing the driver to crash.
Do a memtest sweep and see if it bring up anything.

 

[Kelt]

I had something similar once. It turned out to be a stick of RAM going bad and causing the driver to crash.
Do a memtest sweep and see if it bring up anything.

Agreed, I had similar symptoms a few months ago, turns out I wasn't giving enough voltage to my ram. Worth doing a memtest run.

 

[IT Troll]

Tried 310.90 but just the same.

I'll try a memtest next.

I have been playing quite a bit of Crysis 3 and I fear it has actually burnt out my GPU.

 

[GTA767]

oo my god

run ati tools check for errors

if no error than its not gpu

p.s google will help for ati too

and yes u can install it on nvidia card

 

[BS Dave]

Damn nvidia drivers...

 

[IT Troll]

Two full runs through memtest (2 hrs 40 mins) with no errors.

Isn't ATItool the same thing as Kombuster which comes with Afterburner?

 

[F1aw1ess]

pci-e frequency isnt on auto is it? ive come across a few builds lately that this has been the problem with. Not sure if its just more sensitive drivers or what?

 

[IT Troll]

OK turns out my graphics card hadn't gone bad.

In actual fact I had contracted a dose of the GPU stealing malware iehighutil.exe which is doing the rounds at the moment and goes undetected.