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Gtx 680 stuck on idle :-/

Shipy2002

Shipy2002

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Hey

Just got my palit jetstream gtx 680 installed it , and the dam thing wont budge from idle , I've tried all sorts of games and GPU-Z shows it not moving from idle (can also tell from the horrible FPS) . I have checked the power supply and molex connectors , no problem there , even set power management to "prefer maximum performance" in Nvidia control panel and to no avail . My guess is the card has a faulty bios ? I'm at my wits end , worked away for 4 months , and I finally have a week off and was planning on playing some games :-( .
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated before a RMA this MASSIVE card that can all but sit in idle
 
Im using a corsair TX 750w power supply , the card requires on 6 pin and one 8 pin and im using a 6 pin and a 8 pin . The drivers im using are the beta ones , 304.79

thanks for the replys
 
ah I see. when you said molex i thought you might be using adapters with a rubbish psu.

I have a 680 an run 304.79, no issue. What gpu did you have before the 680?
 
Shipy2002 said:
I had a 5870 before this and had no issues for years :-(
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Did you do a clean reinstall of windows when you upgraded to the 680 from the 5870 ? Also did you make sure to clear out all signs of AMD drivers before installing the new card ? Sounds like a driver problem to me this problem you are having. Have you recently used the windows recovery options that let you go back a certain date, that may have put back some AMD drivers and caused this problem too.

Also if you use any overclocking tools make sure they are all disabled on startup they maybe the cause too.
 
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Have you got any other system you can test the card in as well?

Might help to see if it really is a bad card before you end up sending back and having the same problems with a new one >.>
 
you have ticked the "continue refreshing this screen while gpu-z is in the background" button yeah?

What does it say when you click the drop down box on GPU Core Clock and select "Show Highest Reading"?
 
highest reading is always 324mhz and yea its refreshing while in the background , I fully uninstalled my old AMD drivers before installing this card and ran CCleaner beforehand aswell , ive just installed the cards latest bios , along with my motherboards latest bios and am still haveing the same problem :-(
 
Yeah 324mhz is default 2D clocks, you can use NVidia Inspector to play around with P states, I used it when I used the original driver and it stuttered although thats been fixed now.

Might be worth setting a different P0 state and seeing if that forces the clock to update.

You could also install afterburner and try with that prog, when you press apply to your new overclock it temporarily changes the clocks before settling back into to 2d, so you should be able to see straight away.

Does sound possibly like a dodgy card but id want to check it in another machine first before making any assumptions

Driversweeper is my program of choice http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

uninstall from programs and features, reboot into safemode and run driversweeper (select everything AMD related), reboot and install nvidia driver, reboot again
 
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did you do the full driver uninstall mentioned above?

if so then im outta ideas, you need to check it does the same in another machine really but it does sound like a borked card
 
F1aw1ess said:
did you do the full driver uninstall mentioned above?

if so then im outta ideas, you need to check it does the same in another machine really but it does sound like a borked card
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Using driversweeper now , will let you know if anything changes , if it doesn't i havent got another PC to try the card in so will have to resort to RMA
 
Maybe time to start reinstalling windows mate if you don't have another pc to test the card on, it will save you the headaches and time to try troubleshooting it, it could be a bad registry in windows causing the problem too.

Time to backup all you need on the OS drive and reinstall I think that is your best bet mate. I can't see the card being borked but a borked windows install sounds more likely to me. RMA is not cheap to send out such cards insured remember. So worth trying a reinstall before that and if you have a spare hard drive maybe try install the OS on that as a test quickly to confirm the card is faulty and not the windows install you have currently causing you the problems.
 
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