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Simple stress test

Threepwood said:
just be careful, it is very easy to get distracted, and forget that it is running, and furmark creates a lot of heat, really stressing the card, easy to break one, esp if you are overclocking it
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Thanks for the tip. It’s not overclocked, but something in my system is causing issues (black screen after some light gaming, PC has to be reset).

I figured I’d check the card using a simple test first before I look into what else might be causing my problems.
 
An old GeForce GTX 1080. It’s in my desk PC which is rarely used for gaming. I fired up a game earlier and the screen went black after a few minutes. That repeated a few times. I switched to the onboard GPU and haven’t had any issues since, so my suspicion is that the 1080 has an issue, hence why I want to do some testing.
 
All agreed, but the blank display was happening after just a minute or so of very undemanding games, such as Prodeus. The PC itself hadn't frozen, it just stopped outputting a display. I could still hear the audio that said that the game was continuing behind the darkness. The onboard graphics (Intel UHD Graphics 630) seems to behave, hence why my first port-of-call is to check the GTX 1080. If I don't find an issue with the card, I'll start looking elsewhere.
 
Well, the various stress tests seemed to all pass wihout fail, the temps of the card remaining low and no crashes. Some games would play fine, others (not particularly demanding ones) would cause a crash. I tried a deep-clean of the drivers and various other things, none of which made any difference.

Finally, I tried a different graphics card from one of my other computers (4070 Super) and the crashes all stopped, so I have to assume the 1080 has developed a strange fault.
 
So, the Event Viewer shows 21 occurences of event ID: 14, source: nvlddmkm.

A quick Google does indeed suggest that this is related to graphics (Nvidia...?) cards, but there is no simple solution that's worked for everyone.

A search on these forums shows others with similar problems, one with the exact issue I've got.

I've seen a suggestion somewhere that it might be related to recent drivers and to try older ones, so that might be my next avenue. Nvidia themselves only show drivers as old as March 2025, I'll look for drivers from last year.
 
Interestingly, one of the top results on google for nvidia drivers is "nvidia drivers november 2024" so I might be onto something...
 
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