GTX580 Issues

[matt.hibb]

Hi All,

About 6 weeks ago, I bought a MSI GeForce GTX 580 OC Twin FrozR II card. I work from home so I have it on pretty much all day. And at least a handfull of times a day, my desktop will freeze, then go black and then everything recovers. Once recovered, Windows shows a message saying the display drivers failed and recovered. Now I'm using the latest drivers, so nothing I can do there.

Does this sound like a problem with the card and I need to send it back? Or does it sound more like a software problem that I will have to wait for NVIDIA to fix?

Thanks!

 

[MooMoo444]

Perhaps not enough voltage for the OC (whch doesnt seem to be unheard of for the pre OC'd versions sadly), try adding a touch more with software such as Afterburner and see if you still have issues.

 

[Biffa]

Its a known problem with the current Nvidia drivers with some cards and Nvidia are pretty much stumped.

Search for Nvidia TDR

Or see this thread on this forum, or THIS on on NVidia's forum to get a quick start on the issues.

 

[ancientmariner]

Had the same issue on both my msi gtx 580's.. use msi afterburner to increase the core voltage from 1025 to 1063 and save the setting.

Problem solved.

 

[rubin1961]

My volts are set at 1038 default same card

 

[James J]

Either enable constant voltage control in afterburner if you are overclocking or uninstall afterburner, unistall the nvidia drivers via the control panel and then reboot into safe mode and install the latest WHQL. This is a partial fix for TDR's and appears to be working for me (touch wood! )

 

[Wucked]

I had this issue with the latest beta drivers, so I switched back to the WHQL driver (285.62) and its fine again. Mine is a reference card though, no OC applied.

 

[xsistor]

Here's the interesting thing. I swapped everything, including a fresh OS install... everything except the graphics card and it stopped happening to me. It used to only happen in WoW in 3D mode, in fact. But in my current PC it never happens.

It makes me think it's something other than the graphics card and drivers that's causing it.

 

[Biffa]

I had it on a GTX460 on a machine that didn't have one game installed on it. So its a hard one to call.