NVIDIA Requests Users Cards Back To Find Driver Fault

[Neil79]

I've had this ONCE while using firefox and Hardware Acceleration ON, which is now OFF

WIll keep an eye on it

 

[Ezyryder]

At least they are being pro-active about it, all AMD did with the GSOD was release a token driver (on the back of bad press) that didn't work for most people and then ignored it, there are still posts about it on their forum to this day.

In my experience if you take a non-faulty ATI and a non-faulty Nvidia you will have far less driver based issues with NVidia over a wide variety of games.

Do you mean like the locking up issue for the 400/500 series? or the mobility 8600GTM parts?

yeah, right.

 

[idiocious]

In my other machine I've got a GTX470 that was running fine for the past year but has recently been producing 'grey' screens, freezing and BSODs with code 116. No matter what I did to try and fix it the problem persisted. I had checked all 3 RAM modules with memtest in all slots, reinstalled drivers, rolled back drivers and even reinstalled Windows.

It's currently back with the retailer for RMA. Interestingly, they've discontinued all GTX470s so if they do find my 470 to be faulty I wonder what they'll replace it with.

Using an old 9600GT in that machine now but it's really noisy when the fan decides to spin up!

 

[dcsarge]

I'm not really into the whole fanboy for each brand thing, but I did have an ATI 4890 and upgraded to a 560Ti GTX Oc and have had nothing but issues with crashes, glitches and the the black screen whilst using firefox. Hope they fix it soon or I'm jumping ship!

I am having the same problem with my 560Ti and Firefox. It is perfectly stable in games but the FF/driver issue are becoming more frequent

I had the issue with my previous 470 but that was faulty and started artifacting.

 

[Scougar]

I have this issue, but as far as I can tell it's only when it's in power saving mode (51Mhz or so) with it crash and recover. It happens EVERY day at present.

Noticed the tip about linked power states being set to disabled. I have done that under power options... I'll let you chaps know if my TDR's stop.

 

[Dinkas]

GTX 460 here and all 280.xx drivers gave me TDR's and absurdly low clocks when under 100% load, however, the latest WHQL seems to have resolved this for me, mostly. I don't know if the problem is NV's drivers, or Firefox (some say it happens with MSIE9 too), or the abomination that is Adobe Flash Player.

 

[Kelt]

I've had this 3-4 times after changing to the latest driver sets, I was using the 270's for ages with no problem, since changing to the 280's for BF3 I've had to 'Time out and Recover' while just sat browsing at the like.

Most annoying.

Exactly the same for me. Never had one of these TDR's EVER until going to the 280 series of drivers. Thankfully they're fairly rare in occurrence, else I'd be going back the the 270 series.

 

[Booner!]

Strange question, but anyone who has had this issue with their 560Ti.... what mouse do you use?

 

[Neil79]

Just had it happen while playing AVP, Driver has stopped responding.

Grrr

 

[Titchy]

I have used both AMD and Nvidia cards over many systems and i have to say apart from some initial troubles many moons ago with an old ( at the time state of the art ) Radeon 9700 pro , ive never had any hassles with either brand of card, i really do feel they are both pretty good !
At least Nvidia are looking to do something about the problem here, thats good.

 

[mmj_uk]

Reading that NVidia thread most people complaining are owners of OC & Superclocked cards and funnily enough the 560Ti is the most heavily pre-overclocked card isn't it?

Since installing BF3 yesterday I've found it to be unplayable for more than a few missions on my MSI 580GTX OC, crashes to desktop, artifacts, GPU stopped responding etc. fixed it 100% by underclocking the card to NVidia's reference levels (772mhz core), it turns out nearly all of the vendors are shipping pre-overclocked cards which simply aren't stable in the more stressful DX11 games due to a lack of voltage and some are now offering new BIOS's with a voltage bump.

I bet you this issue is related to overzealous vendor overclocking. The reason why it would affect P67/Z68 platforms the most is that a Sandy Bridge CPU will in most cases push a GPU harder.

 

[mmj_uk]

In fact EA have also made an article about it:
https://help.ea.com/article/bf3-issues-with-overclocked-video-cards

They really need to get some kind of Q&A on these factory overclocked cards or stop the practice altogether.

 

[Bobisuruncle54]

Atleast they are making an effort to try and fix the issue instead of hoping it will go away

Yes because asking their customers to send their cards instead of testing it with their own is a brilliant methodology.