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nVidia drivers or GFX chrashing !?

Gripen90

Gripen90

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Hey all.

I'm having a few problems I hope some of you can share a bit of light upon.

The issue is that I recently upgraded from 3x GTX 470 to 2x GTX 580 and then 3x GTX 580 on my old setup of AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, Asus M4N82 Deluxe, 8GB C. BallistiX PC6400 DDR2, Windows Vista 64 SP1.

I kept running into "driver not responding" issues when gaming and MOH Tier 1 or BC2 would constantly crash and the screen would go blank and the only way to get out would be calling up the task manager and close the applications.
I tried several drivers like 263.09, 263,14, 266.44 with no luck.

The other problem was that when running Unigine Heaven 2.1 DX 11 benchmark then suddenly the application would hang and the crash and my screen would turn off even while you could hear the music from the benchmark playing in the background. Pressing ctrl+alt+del etc wouldn't help. The only way was to hit the reset button on the case.

All this happened with both 2 and 3 cards !.
I also did BIOS updates and got new Realtek sounddrivers and motherboard driver, but no luck.



With all this ticking me off I decided to throw out the AMD setup and go for Intel with Windows 7
So now I got the setup in my profile...

However... it freaking/****king happens again ! also on this new system with Forceware 263.09 ! I can't for life figure out what is wrong ! are the nVidia drivers just plain fubar or do I have a defective video card.
Unigine Heaven DX 11 benchmark will randomly "shut doown" like described previously.

I hit myself for upgrading from a perfectly running system with 3x GTX 470 to this nightmare.:mad::mad:

I just want this PC to run my games stable and no OC.

My backup plan it to take my "old" hardware and pair it with a Corsair CX500,Gigabyte GTX 460 OC 1GB card + Win Vista and make a rig of that and see if that runs properly and then sell this other piece of crap.... (yea sorry but I'm just really disappointed). :(

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Specs:
Intel Core i7 870 2.93GHz
2x4GB Corsair XMS3 PC3-10666 [email protected]
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus push/pull
Asus P7P55 WS Supercomputer, BIOS 1004
3x Gainward GTX 580 GS & Non-GS 3-way SLi
Kingston V-series Gen2 64GB SSD
Samsung SpinPoint F1 640GB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 750GB
Samsung SH-S203D DVD-RW+/-
Thermaltake Toughpower 1500w
Cooler Master CM 690 nVidia Edition
Asus VW266H 26" TFT
 
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Test 1 card with Furmark at a time with the latest stable drivers.

If one of them fails then you know that the card that failed is the culprit.

What power supply are you using with x2/3 580's?

Are you using an SLI bridge?

Other:

Win 7 > Vista (definitely with a DX11 card)
 
The last few drivers have been very good.

I would guess your problem lies either with one of your cards or the PSU

What power supply do you have?
3 gtx580 draw a huge amount of power (we're talking over 1kW for the system under load). One or more of the cards may not be getting enough power.

Secondly have you tried running each card by itself to test them?
 
mattjd said:
Test 1 card with Furmark at a time with the latest stable drivers.

If one of them fails then you know that the card that failed is the culprit.

What power supply are you using with x2/3 580's?

Are you using an SLI bridge?

Other:

Win 7 > Vista (definitely with a DX11 card)
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I have a 1500w PSU.

I've done OCCT and Furmark with each card and no problems.

Yes I'm using a 3-way-SLi bridge.

I just don't get it. The 3xGTX470 that were OC'ed pulled more wattage than two 2xGTX 580s and yet that worked fine.
 
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Get rid of Vista before shifting any hardware out the door.

Out of curiosity, why are you still running it ?
 
Gripen90 said:
I have a 1500w PSU.

I've done OCCT and Furmark with each card and no problems.

Yes I'm using a 3-way-SLi bridge.
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Make and model of power supply? :)

Try these drivers:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18213270

Is your i7 overclocked? If it is set your RAM and processor back to default and test with that. Also using Windows 7 would be your best bet.

How were you doing SLI with an AMD processor before? :confused: Nvidia chipset?
 
mattjd said:
Make and model of power supply? :)

Try these drivers:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18213270

Is your i7 overclocked? If it is set your RAM and processor back to default and test with that. Also using Windows 7 would be your best bet.

How were you doing SLI with an AMD processor before? :confused: Nvidia chipset?
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Thermaltake Toughpower 1500w with 120amps on 12v rails.

The I7 isn't OC'ed. I got the problem on the old AMD setup and it's still occruing even on a brand new Intel setup.

I have Asus M4N82D Deluxe Nforce 980a that has AMD support and 3-way-SLi - but that's the one I changed from.
 
If its running fine with one card at a time then one of the cards must have something dodgy when its connected with another card. So label all 3 cards. 1, 2 and 3.

Test 1 and 2 together
Test 1 and 3 together
Test 2 and 3 together

If one of those set-ups work then the other card is the faulty one.
 
mattjd said:
If its running fine with one card at a time then one of the cards must have something dodgy when its connected with another card. So label all 3 cards. 1, 2 and 3.

Test 1 and 2 together
Test 1 and 3 together
Test 2 and 3 together

If one of those set-ups work then the other card is the faulty one.
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Well the 2 cards are "standard" ones and the other is a Golden Sample card (the primary video card in the first PCI-E slot). However such config never gave me problems when I had 3x GTX280 of different brands and speeds.
But I'll try to see if the Golden Sample card isn't liking to run with the other two standard versions.
 
MoodyB said:
Sorry, my mistake for misreading your original post (your old system was running Vista)

Have you tried disabling your onboard sound in the bios, then running the tests again ?
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Yes, but the games/test won't run due to "missing sound device". I got that error on both setups :rolleyes:
 
I experience the same having SLI, but in movies only - games are OK :) So it's probably driver's issue.
But you can check temps of all 3 cards and try to underclock them as low as you can - just for testing purposes. And if it's fine then = go higher, maybe you will find reasonable speed which allows you normal playing with acceptable power draw/temps. I know your PSU is 1500w, but 3 such monsters, 12v rails and overload = might be some issue (mobo's, PSU's - whatever).
 
biuro74 said:
I experience the same having SLI, but in movies only - games are OK :) So it's probably driver's issue.
But you can check temps of all 3 cards and try to underclock them as low as you can - just for testing purposes. And if it's fine then = go higher, maybe you will find reasonable speed which allows you normal playing with acceptable power draw/temps. I know your PSU is 1500w, but 3 such monsters, 12v rails and overload = might be some issue (mobo's, PSU's - whatever).
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Yes I know they're power hungry but as I wrote it happened with two cards also. 2x GTX 580 however still needs less wattage than 3x GTX 470 SuperClocked - and they ran fine :cool:
As for temperatures the highest temp I measured in the log of GPU-Z was 82*c degrees celcius for the two upper cards the lowest was around 75*c.
 
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