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980 ti woes

Check the heat of the card, is it just the .exe stopped working or is it the display driver crashing? I was getting display driver crashes last week, checked the temp and mid 70's, not really that bad so what i did was take it apart and redo the thermal paste and now it's mid 60's and don't crash any more.
 
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If your card can't run stable at stock clocks and you getting driver stopped responding then you have instability with it's stock clocks caused by either the card or your PSU.

There isn't a bonified way to diagnose it only by swapping one or the other to rule out each. If your card is under warranty you can got that route, but if you can borrow a PSU that would be a step toward troubleshooting it.

try clocking it down to stock 980ti clocks see if it runs stable. EVGA are best in the business warranty wise.
 
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data log your gaming using afterburner or gpu-z,
check for throttling where the gpu reduces the voltage by20mv and 13mhz on the clock speed, if it isn't throttling check the perfcap in gpuz, other than that it's either gpu bios needs voltage and p-states refining to the chip-memory, drivers at play or poor psu.

puttimg the gpu under 100 load won't show the fault it needs to be variable gpu loads
 
Full monitoring is tricky, other than temps etc in Afterburner. A good start would be underclocking the card by a decent margin to see what, if any, difference that makes. In my case it made no difference to the regularity of crashes.
 
I had a similar issue way back with a 560Ti and couldn't replicate the issue but it would happen for no apparent reason it complete random times. After manually downclocking the card, issue gone but I also dropped the volts, which isn't easy or even possible on Maxwell that I am aware of. Probably needs an RMA or a slightly higher voltage BIOS and your choice what you go for. You could always add +25mV via Afterburner and see if that sorts it.
 
Had some issues with games using origin, as games would crash randomly saying the GPU had been removed. Got a new PSU today and so far haven't had a single crash (knock on wood). The old one was almost 9 years old though.
 
I'll speak to Overclockers shortly, start the RMA process, but tonight. I'll also kick off the Heaven benchmark monitoring and logging throttles etc (thanks for the suggestion). If I wake up in the morning and it's crashed. Hopefully I'll see where and why.
 
One thing to check is your Nvidia control panel settings... There are a lot of things in there which default badly. Few things I would recommend that you test before you completely get rid of the card etc:

Nvidia Control Panel

Is DSR on/off, is it set to single/dual monitors as appropriate, powermodes etc. Check physics too, mine decided it would default to the CPU handling it not GPU... Go figure. Also of note try completely uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers/Nvidia Experience if you use it - if you don't then try using it and see if it makes any difference.

Install EVGA Precision, test the following:

  1. K-Boost On (will run at full boost clock constantly, ergo testing whether its a variable load issue or not). There is also a setting in the control panel Nvidia stuff which has the same effect but not max boost just max stock clock so you could test that too.
  2. Voltage, try applying a slight overvault and see if it solves the issue (turning K-Boost off)

Windows Power Management:

  1. Stop it sleeping, check power plan settings - could be a symptom of windows failing to wake up/sleep if its happening on idle
  2. Disable fast boot, it really makes no difference and causes no end of issues

Good luck!
 
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The ONLY thing I could find in the logs was that RivaTuna was causing issues. But not at the same time. I've uninstalled it and installed Nvidia Inspector to limit my fps (I did this in RTSS).

I'll remove this limit and run Heaven tonight with GPUZ constantly logging.
 
To me it sounds like an unstable overclock. It happens.

I had it with a 780Ti Windforce GHZ edition from Gigabyte.

Just go through the RMA process, all the signs are pointing that way to me.
 
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Bit out of the box thinking.

Displayport cable at 3m or more?
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Neg, 3m HDMI though.

I've replicated the error it seems...

This is what happened when it crashed...

Date , GPU Core Clock [MHz] , GPU Memory Clock [MHz] , GPU Temperature [°C] , Fan Speed (%) [%] , Fan Speed (RPM) [RPM] , Memory Used [MB] , GPU Load [%] , Memory Controller Load [%] , Video Engine Load [%] , Bus Interface Load [%] , Power Consumption [% TDP] , PerfCap Reason [] , VDDC [V] ,

2016-02-11 19:43:14 , 1290.9 , 1752.8 , 79.0 , 55 , 1837 , 1399 , 98 , 54 , 0 , 0 , 96.9 , 1 , 1.1490 ,
2016-02-11 19:43:15 , 1290.9 , 1752.8 , 78.0 , 55 , 1839 , 1399 , 98 , 53 , 0 , 0 , 96.5 , 1 , 1.1490 ,
2016-02-11 19:43:16 , 1290.9 , 1752.8 , 79.0 , 55 , 1836 , 1399 , 99 , 53 , 0 , 0 , 96.5 , 1 , 1.1490 ,
2016-02-11 19:43:17 , 1304.0 , 1752.8 , 73.0 , 55 , 1848 , 1422 , 2 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 40.6 , 4 , 1.1680 ,
2016-02-11 19:43:18 , 1304.0 , 1752.8 , 73.0 , 55 , 1842 , 1407 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 40.1 , 4 , 1.1680 ,
2016-02-11 19:43:19 , 1304.0 , 1752.8 , 72.0 , 55 , 1852 , 1407 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 39.9 , 4 , 1.1680 ,

Not sure if the format will come out ok. But basically, for no reason what so ever. Heaven literally stopped with the usual heaven.exe has stopped working. This ran with no fps cap for about 20 minutes.

I then upped the voltage to +18mV using EVGA PX 16. Ran since and it's been fine since...

Is this pointing to my PSU or GPU then?
 
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It's unstable at its default settings - the fact that you're having to add voltage to get it operational isn't great.

There use to be an excellent EVGA forum rep on here, Dominik or something. Anyone know if he's still around?
 
Do you get crashes outside of gaming such as whilst browsing, watching video etc? How have you tested your memory and cpu?
 
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Do you get crashes outside of gaming such as whilst browsing, watching video etc? How have you tested your memory and cpu?
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No crashes outside of gaming. None at all. PC has been solid since I built it.

Memtested the **** out of the memory and primed my CPU for over 24 hours once. Both solid.
 
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No crashes outside of gaming. None at all. PC has been solid since I built it.

Memtested the **** out of the memory and primed my CPU for over 24 hours once. Both solid.
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I'd suggest keeping the card stock and keeping a small voltage bump to see if that helps. I presume you get no artifacts in games? 24 hours prime also doesn't ensure stability, although doubt it's that from what you've described.
 
I'd say the fact that upping the volts to the card is sorting it, then it's definitely a card issue, not a psu issue.
If a card is not stable at stock, without having to add volts, then it's not right. It will cause you grief. Get it RMAd, I know it's a pain but these things need to be done sometimes.

I had to do it with a Launch Titan X that would crash when loading certain games. Some sort of load/power/ volts issue that I couldn't be arsed worrying about for such an expensive card. Sent it back, got a full refund, waited a bit, got a solid working, fast as **** 980Ti = very happy.
 
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