GTX780 issues

[Panos]

Hi,

I have couple of issues with my PNY GTX780 XLR8 OC. It run without issue up to few weeks ago. Over the last 4 months I have the card on stock speeds, because is powerful enough and I do not need the extra overclock.


a) When I start the system, I need to reboot. The reason is the EVGA Precision and the MSI AB, do not show all the information of the card. (eg the Link, low speeds).

And I know it will crash as soon as I start a game, requiring a reboot

b) After the reboot, it all works ok. However, there are times when the driver crashes. I have pretty aggressive fan profiles (60C 100% fan), cleaned the cooler however still overheats to 70C and crashes the driver. It idles at 38C at 54% fan speed.

Case temp is 20C and I run open case either way. Where 4 120mm fans are pushing cold air into it from the H100i radiator with high pressure also and the airflow is passing over the graphic card also. (the air is cold)

Maybe I need to remove the cooler and replace the thermal paste? Or is there a case there to return since it is in warranty? (bought it late November 2013, however i have no second gpu to use my PC)

I am happy with the card, is very powerful, relative quiet and had no issues with it until now.

 

[alex_123_fra]

Hi Panos, are you running Msi AB and precision X at the same time?

 

[pgi947]

If its crashing at stock and still within warranty I'd just punt it back to the retailer.

Make sure you've exhausted other possibilities before RMA though, like re seat the card, different pPSU, clean os install etc...

 

[RetrogamerX]

^^^
This. I would uninstall both OC,'ing programs and see how it goes after.

 

[Panos]

Hi Panos, are you running Msi AB and precision X at the same time?

Of course not.

If its crashing at stock and still within warranty I'd just punt it back to the retailer.

Make sure you've exhausted other possibilities before RMA though, like re seat the card, different pPSU, clean os install etc...

I do have a clean OS. Different PSU is tad difficult to obtain, since I need to buy one.

However I will re-seat the card, maybe move it to a different slot.
(X79, all 3 sockets run at full speed).

Thank you

^^^
This. I would uninstall both OC,'ing programs and see how it goes after.

Could be the issue That is easy to sort out

 

[alex_123_fra]

Of course not.

Ok good, just the way it was written, it sounded like it. Agree re: uninstalling the OC software and then use DDU to do a proper clean gpu driver uninstall. Then remove/reseat card and reset bios. Then turn your PC on, install gpu drivers and no OC software. Run like this and monitor temps using gpu-z initially.

 

[Ian Evey]

Make sure you have the latest version of msi and latest nvidia drivers, uninstall both msi and AB. Reinstall nvidia drivers then install just MSI.

If your missing some options in msi then after a reboot those options are there i would think it was dodgy software / drivers.