First time NVDIA card issue - Cannot find solution

[dryfish]

Hi guys,

2 Years ago I bought a PC from Overclockers with a GTX-970 and everything went swimmingly until early this year my GPU would randomly crash when I'm gaming. The display would lose signal and a windows error would pop up. However everything continues to run in the background, I can still hear the audio etc.

At first it didn't happen that often and it didn't bother me but as time went by the crashes got more and more frequent to the point where it happens every 1 - 2 hours. So 2 months ago I pulled the 970 out and replaced it with my old AMD HD7870 and the crashes stopped completely for a whole week which lead me to the conclusion that the 970 was faulty. So after the week long testing I replaced the GPU with a 1080 and everything was fine and 0 crashes for 2 months, then 3 days ago the crashes started again.

This is my first having a hardware issue because luckily I've never encountered any problems in 10+ years of using PCs / gaming. However that lucky streak have now ended and I have no clue what to do as the crashes have returned to plague me.

My GPU temperature ranges from 65 - 72 Celsius under load if this information helps.

 

[Panos]

When was the last time you installed fresh windows?

 

[dryfish]

2 years ago when the PC came with windows 10

 

[greatash]

sounds like nvidia driver crashing? since the AMD card didnt have an issue

try uninstalling and reinstalling drivers

 

[Davanius]

Nvidia drivers have been trash lately on two of my systems. The latest driver was the worst crashing both of them.

The latest stable driver for me is 382.53. Try that driver after cleaning with ddu.

 

[D1craig]

That sounds like the random driver crash a lot of people where getting a while ago. Over 18months I was getting it. The card just wouldn't keep it's factory overclock and it was something to do with drivers but it was not the same driver for everyone that gave them the problem. My card never truly got over it, it just happened less often.

 

[dryfish]

Thanks for the replies guys, I've tried using an older driver and the machine ran fine until today where it crashed again. This time when the PC restarted there is no display signal at all and I had to turn the PC completely off for a few minutes before turning it back on again for it to work.