New Build Gainward GTX 680 Problems :( HELP!

greg2414 · 9 May 2012 at 20:02

Sorry try again ^^

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Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 20:03

Yep, that's it.

greg2414 · 9 May 2012 at 20:06

ok let me stick my ram back in and lets see. Yeah totally weird, 1 stick in atm and not one error, freeze etc

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 20:10

greg2414 said:
ok let me stick my ram back in and lets see. Yeah totally weird, 1 stick in atm and not one error, freeze etc

Are the timings set to the Ram specifications in the BIOS? Worth checking just to make sure and RAM volts?

greg2414 · 9 May 2012 at 20:27

sadly I don't know much about that, what am I looking for exactly?

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 20:33

The make and model of your ram will have timings like mine are 9-9-9-24 and rated at 1.5V.

This you need to check and make sure it is the same in the BIOS.

greg2414 · 9 May 2012 at 20:58

Yeah I think mine is 9-9-9-24 and 1.5V so where do i check this? This is a new territory lol

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 21:04

With your BIOS I have no idea but you can find out by google

greg2414 · 9 May 2012 at 21:07

will look now, thanks

If this doesnt do anything, where am I going? Is it the gfx... is it the ram...? haha going nuts here

greg2414 · 9 May 2012 at 21:16

Just installed cpu-z and here is my ram settings by the looks.

Does this look right?

To me that's incorrect?
RAM : 4096 MB DDR3 Single Channel
RAM Speed : 800.5 MHz (1:12) @ 11-11-11-28
Slot 1 : 4096MB (12800)
Slot 1 Manufacturer : G.Skill

Is how i see it

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 21:24

Yep looks fine to me. Add another stick of ram in make sure it is set for 1 & 3 or 2 & 4 (not next to each other) and see how that runs.

Boycey0211 · 9 May 2012 at 21:31

that TDR regedit is one I've used before. Doesn't work in the majority of cases, and is dodgy according to most people.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18393075

in fact it was you gregster who said it was a workaround an underlying problem

(only just spotted that)

greg2414 · 9 May 2012 at 21:35

gregster said:
Yep looks fine to me. Add another stick of ram in make sure it is set for 1 & 3 or 2 & 4 (not next to each other) and see how that runs.

How is 11-11-11-28 the same as 9-9-9-24 ?

It's ok set higher?

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 21:40

Boycey0211 said:
that TDR regedit is one I've used before. Doesn't work in the majority of cases, and is dodgy according to most people.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18393075

in fact it was you gregster who said it was a workaround an underlying problem (only just spotted that)

And again I said the same thing here bud

It is just a plaster but I wouldn't consider it a bad thing. I used it long enough and had no probs from it (I still had crashes though very occasionaly).

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 21:41

greg2414 said:
How is 11-11-11-28 the same as 9-9-9-24 ?

It's ok set higher?

Well mine is reading the exact same, so I would think that is right lol

greg2414 · 9 May 2012 at 21:41

Going to ask one last thing if this doesnt solve it

If i'm still getting the problems, what would you do??

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 21:44

Return the card. Run it with 2 sticks of ram and then fire up a game/heaven bench and see how that goes.

greg2414 · 9 May 2012 at 21:48

ive manually set timings to 9-9-9-24 to see any diff, also stuck 2 sticks in 1 / 3 at the moment.

So you think it's purely the GPU at fault ?

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 21:55

greg2414 said:
ive manually set timings to 9-9-9-24 to see any diff, also stuck 2 sticks in 1 / 3 at the moment.

So you think it's purely the GPU at fault ?

I firmly believe it is a volt thing. In so many of these cases it is either drivers or lack of volts.

The display driver has stopped responding and has recovered is the most annoying ever as I have seen so many people with this problem and does not matter if AMD/NVIDIA they both get it. I used to think it was Windows 7 and Vista coding, as these were the only 2 operating systems it affected.

Now after more knowledge on this error, It normally boils down to 2 things...Volts or drivers.

Let me know how you get on with the 2 sticks of ram in please.

greg2414 · 9 May 2012 at 22:09

Iv'e got sticks in 1 / 3 atm seems stable but how shall i stress it more? Shall I run a benchmark test?