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Hello and thanks in advance for any help/advice given in relation to this problem.
As the tittle suggests, my G1 Gaming 980Ti is suddenly failing when gaming.
The screen turned a solid yellow the first few times it happened and from then on out for the rest of my trial and error diagnosing, the screen turned solid white and both of these solid colour screens also froze the pc.
Just like this short vid on youtube. - Not my video by the way, I found it trying to research my card's problem. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TimLeq1cubI
It does this less than 5 minutes into The Witcher 3 & Mad Max (the most recent games I currently have) and sometimes flickers during those few minutes of gameplay, but it's fine when only web browsing and/or during media play-back and other "lighter" display tasks.
I'm as certain as I can be that it is not an overheating issue as I monitor that closely using GPU-Z. When the card was working perfectly I would regularly alt-tab out of both games during game play to see where the cards thermals were and with the in game graphics set to high for both, I've not really seen it go past 64c (maximum). They were often at mid 50's when doing the random alt-tab out. These temps struck me as great given that a lot of people on a lot of dfferent forums have said that The Witcher 3 is typically a heat enducing game up into the 70's & low 80's.
Speaking of alt-tabbing out to check on GPU-Z, when I used to do that to monitor the temps I also got used to seeing nearly all the sensor charts/graphs (GPU Core Clock, GPU Memory Clock, VDDC and others, but not all) maxxed out all the way and stay there as a steady bar moving along as the sensors refreshed and added to the graph. Since My 980Ti has been messing me around though, when I do the same alt-tab check on GPU-Z in the few minutes of game play that I get, most of those same sensor readings go up and down regularly & in a consistent interval looking like an oscilloscope display.
I have a few GPU-z screenshots that I will try to attach to show what I mean a bit clearer than my tired description. UPDATE - Couldn't find an attachment option to upload the screenshots from my pc to this post or site. Will Look again after I get some sleep - been awake all night.
Also, I have never overclocked this card (I've only grabbed MSI Afterburner since my card has been acting up) + I have all update options set to manual so it's got the exact same drivers and bios/vbios it had while it was still fully working + I have tried using a backup (new) PSU I had and that made NO difference. I am currently using a backup GPU I have and though it's a lesser card (R7 370), it plays those games fine for hours.
Apologies for my tired ramblings if I have given too much detail and thanks again for any help on this subject.
As the tittle suggests, my G1 Gaming 980Ti is suddenly failing when gaming.
The screen turned a solid yellow the first few times it happened and from then on out for the rest of my trial and error diagnosing, the screen turned solid white and both of these solid colour screens also froze the pc.
Just like this short vid on youtube. - Not my video by the way, I found it trying to research my card's problem. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TimLeq1cubI
It does this less than 5 minutes into The Witcher 3 & Mad Max (the most recent games I currently have) and sometimes flickers during those few minutes of gameplay, but it's fine when only web browsing and/or during media play-back and other "lighter" display tasks.
I'm as certain as I can be that it is not an overheating issue as I monitor that closely using GPU-Z. When the card was working perfectly I would regularly alt-tab out of both games during game play to see where the cards thermals were and with the in game graphics set to high for both, I've not really seen it go past 64c (maximum). They were often at mid 50's when doing the random alt-tab out. These temps struck me as great given that a lot of people on a lot of dfferent forums have said that The Witcher 3 is typically a heat enducing game up into the 70's & low 80's.
Speaking of alt-tabbing out to check on GPU-Z, when I used to do that to monitor the temps I also got used to seeing nearly all the sensor charts/graphs (GPU Core Clock, GPU Memory Clock, VDDC and others, but not all) maxxed out all the way and stay there as a steady bar moving along as the sensors refreshed and added to the graph. Since My 980Ti has been messing me around though, when I do the same alt-tab check on GPU-Z in the few minutes of game play that I get, most of those same sensor readings go up and down regularly & in a consistent interval looking like an oscilloscope display.
I have a few GPU-z screenshots that I will try to attach to show what I mean a bit clearer than my tired description. UPDATE - Couldn't find an attachment option to upload the screenshots from my pc to this post or site. Will Look again after I get some sleep - been awake all night.
Also, I have never overclocked this card (I've only grabbed MSI Afterburner since my card has been acting up) + I have all update options set to manual so it's got the exact same drivers and bios/vbios it had while it was still fully working + I have tried using a backup (new) PSU I had and that made NO difference. I am currently using a backup GPU I have and though it's a lesser card (R7 370), it plays those games fine for hours.
Apologies for my tired ramblings if I have given too much detail and thanks again for any help on this subject.
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