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Nvidia 1080 driver problem

neviditelny

neviditelny

neviditelny

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I might have missed this already but I skimmed through the forum and didn't see anything that seemed to deal with this.
I have a MSI Nvidia 1080 Armor GPU and during the last few weeks I have been having a lot of problems with it crashing. It says “Display driver stopped working and has recovered” and it happens at any time, no matter what I'm doing. It have happened when I have had no other programs than Spotify and Firefox running as well as when I've been playing.

I got the latest drivers installed and I haven't changed any settings in BIOS in regards of anything with the computer, no new components installed either.

I got no idea what else to do so I'm asking for advice here.
 
I had this a few years back and it turned out to be a pretty nasty mining virus. Utilisation would quickly hit 100% followed by driver stopped working and has recovered. Iehighutil.exe was the culprit.

With mining being as massive as it is, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is a thing again.
 
Bluntwrapped said:
I had this a few years back and it turned out to be a pretty nasty mining virus. Utilisation would quickly hit 100% followed by driver stopped working and has recovered. Iehighutil.exe was the culprit.

With mining being as massive as it is, it wouldn’t surprise me if this is a thing again.
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Would that be something that would hit someone who doesn't do mining?
 
neviditelny said:
Would that be something that would hit someone who doesn't do mining?
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It doesnt matter what you do with your machine. The idea is that someone else gets some sort of mining malware on your PC and then they profit from it and not you of course. Doesnt matter if you yourself is mining or not. They are basicly hijacking your PC's power for their own good. I would nuke my own machine if i had this behavior on it and by nuke i mean format c: /Q :P and then reinstall. But for your specific problem mentioned in the OP i would have course start with the display drivers. Also some more details of the problem would be highly useful to us. Like GPU utilization when the crash occur.
 
neviditelny said:
Would that be something that would hit someone who doesn't do mining?
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As Phix said above yep it would. You need to be especially careful if you ever download torrents. Malware is usually distributed with top/new titles in line with the GPU you’ll need to run them. Perfect for an opportunist miner.
 
Bluntwrapped said:
As Phix said above yep it would. You need to be especially careful if you ever download torrents. Malware is usually distributed with top/new titles in line with the GPU you’ll need to run them. Perfect for an opportunist miner.
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I never download games on torrents, only movies. But will be a bit more careful now.
 
Phixsator said:
It doesnt matter what you do with your machine. The idea is that someone else gets some sort of mining malware on your PC and then they profit from it and not you of course. Doesnt matter if you yourself is mining or not. They are basicly hijacking your PC's power for their own good. I would nuke my own machine if i had this behavior on it and by nuke i mean format c: /Q :p and then reinstall. But for your specific problem mentioned in the OP i would have course start with the display drivers. Also some more details of the problem would be highly useful to us. Like GPU utilization when the crash occur.
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The weird thing is that the crashes comes very randomly. I've had it happen several times when just being on FB with Chrome, and then sitting reading the OC Forum on Firefox. Quite often it happens when no GPU heavy duties are being done.
 
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I used the Display Driver Uninstaller to uninstall the drivers and reinstall the latest ones today before I headed off to work (was too tired to do anything this morning after work). So hopefully it will work.
 
I've reinstalled my Windows 7, upgraded the drivers but the problem still occurs. It happens at random intervalls and very random usage. Sometimes it happens while I watch a stream, sometimes when I'm just using several open tabs in Firefox while reading news etc. I've not installed any games, and very few software have been reinstalled yet.. Don't know what to do as I've followed the hints or suggestions I've found when googled it. One suggestion is that the GPU isn't getting enough power, but a 750W PSU should be enough as the card isn't overclocked?
The other parts I have in the rig is a 525gb SSD, 1TB hdd, 10TB hdd and 16gb RAM.. Really got no idea what to do any more..
 
neviditelny said:
I've reinstalled my Windows 7, upgraded the drivers but the problem still occurs. It happens at random intervalls and very random usage. Sometimes it happens while I watch a stream, sometimes when I'm just using several open tabs in Firefox while reading news etc. I've not installed any games, and very few software have been reinstalled yet.. Don't know what to do as I've followed the hints or suggestions I've found when googled it. One suggestion is that the GPU isn't getting enough power, but a 750W PSU should be enough as the card isn't overclocked?
The other parts I have in the rig is a 525gb SSD, 1TB hdd, 10TB hdd and 16gb RAM.. Really got no idea what to do any more..
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There is a random display driver crash issue with Firefox and Pascal cards at the moment particularly on Windows 7, see 2nd post under issues and updates: https://forums.geforce.com/default/...lay-driver-feedback-thread-released-2-26-18-/

Do these crashes occur when Firefox is closed completely?
 
I have not checked that as Firefox is my main browser, I will give it a go tomorrow and see what I will find out. For some reason I had never come across that it could be a Firefox problem, but now when I actually think of it, it only seem to be videos in Firefox that gets affected. I can check tomorrow morning after work while watching Match of the Day online :D
Thank you for this info, and I will keep you updated!
 
ltron said:
There is a random display driver crash issue with Firefox and Pascal cards at the moment particularly on Windows 7, see 2nd post under issues and updates: https://forums.geforce.com/default/...lay-driver-feedback-thread-released-2-26-18-/

Do these crashes occur when Firefox is closed completely?
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I've tried using Opera instead of Firefox today, using same sites as I would on Firefox and no crashes this far. Will keep using it to see if it stays like this. Thank you for the help :)
 
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