GTX 580 Driver Issue

[Hayleywow]

Hey Guys

A few months ago I replaced my GTX480's with GTX580's running SLI.

I had NO problems at all with the GTX480's my PC used to run 24/7 without any issue.

Now I have the GTX580's I have been having a few driver issues, I have installed the latest drivers, the problem is, if I leave my PC on for a couple of days, (Like yesterday I was at work, so PC was idle all day) when I got home and tried to do something the drivers crashed, screen went black, then came back on, but anything I tried to play after that was pixalated.

I checked the temps of the cards before the drivers crashed last night, and they were (Top card 50 degrees - Bottom card 48 degrees)

BUT if I turn my PC off everyday, I don't get an issue. (Or haven't so far)

Would be grateful for any advice

Thanks Hay

 

[Hayleywow]

Can anyone shed some light, any idea's???

 

[~REALiTY]

Have you tried just one card for the whole day?

 

[loudbob]

Initially, I would suggest you remove both cards.

Try installing one at a time (seperatly), re-installing Drivers (custom clean install option) and running some benchmarks to test cards - perhaps MSI Kombuster or Heaven or something else (just to stress test). This will highlight any hardware issues.

Once you're happy - install both cards (with sli disabled) - try running something to stress the cards again - perhaps F@H (use F@H GPU Tracker for ease) - this will again highlight an hardware issues with the cards or possibly MB.

If you're happy (cards too) you can then enable sli & physx if required and again try MSI Kombuster and/or Heaven - with any luck all should be well.....

Should'nt be any other hardware issues (unless it's a new failure) - I assume you're using the same PSU as with the 480's?


Don't take offence if you've already tried this just standard operating procedure - nice set-up btw.

 

[RedGooner]

I haved had a few BSOD's, all point to NV4 driver, so hoping a new driver is coming soon.

Running 2 x eVga GFX 580 Superclocked

Red

 

[Hayleywow]

Initially, I would suggest you remove both cards.

Try installing one at a time (seperatly), re-installing Drivers (custom clean install option) and running some benchmarks to test cards - perhaps MSI Kombuster or Heaven or something else (just to stress test). This will highlight any hardware issues.

Once you're happy - install both cards (with sli disabled) - try running something to stress the cards again - perhaps F@H (use F@H GPU Tracker for ease) - this will again highlight an hardware issues with the cards or possibly MB.

If you're happy (cards too) you can then enable sli & physx if required and again try MSI Kombuster and/or Heaven - with any luck all should be well.....

Should'nt be any other hardware issues (unless it's a new failure) - I assume you're using the same PSU as with the 480's?


Don't take offence if you've already tried this just standard operating procedure - nice set-up btw.

No offence taken, I have tried the above a few times, and have no issues, but if I leave PC on for a few days, the drivers crash out of the blue.

PSU I have is a Corsair HX1000 I believe, the same one that was used with the GTX 480's

 

[loudbob]

Curious and Curiouser.......

Seems strange, can't imagine a driver issue - especially if you can run at max on start-up.

The only other thing I could suggest is if you might have something running in the background sucking up all the memory resources or your hdd may have a corrupt (bad) sector.

I have the same mobo and running a 930 @ 4.2GHz. Also had 2 x GTX480's and 3 x GTX460's (not a the same time of course) and the only time I had issues was with cpu voltages and/or pushing shader clocks on gpu too high - never with the actual gpu drivers.

Used WinXP, WinXP Pro (64bit) & Win7 Home (64bit) and still no issues.

 

[Hayleywow]

I have just run the Heaven benchmark again, I was get a slight stutter in places, but not many.....

I run it all the way thru, got:-

FPS 82.0
Scores - 2065
Min FPS 27.1
Max FPS 170.2

Settings were:-

DX 11
Shader - High
AA - 8x
Tessellation - Normal
Res - 1920 x 1080

Loudbob - I know its strange, when I had my 2 GTX 480's I had no probs, PC stayed on 24/7 for months

 

[^Andy^]

Wonder if it's a problem coming out of sleep. Have you tired waiting till the pc sleeps then waking it a few minutes later to see if the problem shows up then rather than waiting 24hours?

 

[Hayleywow]

Wonder if it's a problem coming out of sleep. Have you tired waiting till the pc sleeps then waking it a few minutes later to see if the problem shows up then rather than waiting 24hours?

Sleep is disabled, I just turn monitor off when I leave it.