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680 GTX Nvidia Display driver has stopped responding

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Was watching a live football stream last night and after a few screen flickers I got a black screen.

This happened for about 5-10 seconds and then display returned but there was a popup in the taskbar saying that the display driver had stopped responding.

This has never happened before so I installed latest Nvidia driver and it kept doing the same every 10 minutes or so.

This occurs both in game and during desktop use.

Does anyone know if this is a hardware issue?
 
TDR issues can normaly be sorted by adding a little more volts. With the 680 having locked volts, I would say it needs to be RMA'd.
 
Is the card overclocked at all? If so try dialing it back or returning to stock config.

Edit, try the ninjas suggestions above too :p
 
The card has never been overclocked and has worked flawlessly for the last 9 months since purchase.

After I installed latest driver and the problem persisted I thought RMA straight away.

Its an Asus card as well so I'm surprised at it failing so quick.
 
scamartist said:
The card has never been overclocked and has worked flawlessly for the last 9 months since purchase.

After I installed latest driver and the problem persisted I thought RMA straight away.

Its an Asus card as well so I'm surprised at it failing so quick.
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Drivers can bring issues. Go back to the previous drivers you used with a custom - clean install. If it still persists, then RMA it.
 
I only changed my drivers after the issue started.

Previous to that it never missed a beat gaming desktop or otherwise.

Will have a quick try at a couple of things tonight just to make sure I haven't done anything silly.

Then its time to start looking at the RMA process.
 
Found out the cause of my problems.

Seems I had a sneaky virus installed on my computer which was using my 680 to mine bitcoins. Virus is probably not the best description as AV software wont pick it up but definitely unwanted malware.

Noticed I had a program called iehighutil.exe running in taskmanager and after a bit of Googling discovered what it did and how to get shot of it.

Haven't had a single graphics driver issue since.
 
scamartist said:
Found out the cause of my problems.

Seems I had a sneaky virus installed on my computer which was using my 680 to mine bitcoins. Virus is probably not the best description as AV software wont pick it up but definitely unwanted malware.

Noticed I had a program called iehighutil.exe running in taskmanager and after a bit of Googling discovered what it did and how to get shot of it.

Haven't had a single graphics driver issue since.
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I got the exact same thing when I had my 7870, something I downloaded installed that bit mining process and it was using my CPU at like 99%, took me minutes to find it though as I checked running processes straight away.
 
Glad you found the problem. These sneaky programs do have a way of getting in and it pays to keep an eye on your processes from time to time.
 
If it comes back do this.
Go to power options,PCIE,Link state and turn it off.
Never happend again .
 
I had the same symptoms as OP yesterday with my GTX 480.

I bought the card in 2010 and thought maybe it was on its way out, but turns out iehighutil.exe made its way onto my PC and was causing the GPU to reach 95C just sitting idle at windows desktop, Ive never seen it get that hot even when playing extended sessions of Far Cry 3.

I also kept seeing the "Nvidia driver stopped responding and has recovered" message every minute or so.

I reboot into safe mode w/ networking and downloaded Combofix from bleepingcomputer.com which so far has done the trick, The combofix log shows it deleted iehighutil.exe as well as a bunch of other files and registry entries.

The videocard appears unharmed from this ordeal but I'm willing to bet it has or will end up damaging some videocards.

Nasty virus.
 
This could be my problem, i was getting display driver stopped etc now looking at my usage Gpu 1 is at 40% most the time, I’m sure it was never like that on desktop use before, I was starting to think it was the new drivers :s
 
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