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Strange crash, anyone have any ideas?

ins0mn1ac

ins0mn1ac

ins0mn1ac

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Basically during heavy 3d (running a game for a while) I'll get a crash, cards not overclocked and fans are set to 100% so it's not heat, the crash is kind of like old school TV static but in colours. The card seems to try and VPU recover but nothing happens, monitor will click into standby and I'll have to hard reset.

It seems to me like it's GPU memory related, anyone think differently? cheers.
 
The fans may spin 100% but what temps are the cards reaching? Have you tried your cards seperately in non-SLi mode? What PSU do you have?
 
Update to this, gave my computer a major clean, took out one of my ram sticks, set CPU to stock and underclocked the card by 5%, temperature differences are about 15ish deg less at full load so I'm leaning toward heat issues.

I'll start putting things back in/OCing till the problem arises again try and pinpoint the issue!
 
Same old :( it seemed OK for a while but one blast on BF3 and gone again :( I'm so sure it's a memory thing, I've noticed lately random discolourings on some textures in a couple of different games, again I beleive could be GPU memory?

If anyone has anything to say, please do!
 
ins0mn1ac said:
Same old :( it seemed OK for a while but one blast on BF3 and gone again :( I'm so sure it's a memory thing, I've noticed lately random discolourings on some textures in a couple of different games, again I beleive could be GPU memory?

If anyone has anything to say, please do!
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Have you tried the cards individually? Run a benchmark on each of them separately and compare results.

Then let us know.

EDIT: Oh sorry just saw you only use one of the cards. Have you still got the other card to test/rule out the GPUs themselves?
 
That temp of 99 is to much bud. Take the card out and make sure it is completely clear of dust and try and make sure your case has good air flow (tidy cables up) de-dust any case fans also (i use a kids paint brush and hoover as i go).

After a good de-dust and cable tidy up I am sure you will see better temps.
 
Case is so clean you could eat from it with hardly a cable in sight, untidy cases are my pet hate! I've just run memtest to rule out my RAM 100%, it's run for 3 hours without any errors, so I'm convinced the card is on its last legs, just curious why :/

This is also the only GPU I've got left, funny enough gave the other one to my mate that runs perfectly fine :(

I've tried running the card in the other PCI-E slot but it's the same.

For example this is EXACTLY how my screen goes, it'll suddenly just artifact up like this and the sound will hang, the PC then seemingly grinds to a halt and I have to turn on and off. Linky-> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/201/crashhv0.jpg/
 
Such a PITA, I can run Heaven non-stop, the card does get super hot but doesnt crash, but then randomly in L4D/BF3/SWTOR, it will. Rage :(
 
I hear ya bud. Maybe under clock the card, as that temp is just to high. Strange that heaven runs without the same result as gfx intensive games. I would have thought heaven would have made it fail more than games, as this is total gpu intensive.

I would be inclined to drop the clocks in afterburner and see if this helps, if it runs heaven for a long time, then the card should still be strong?

It is my kind of luck to give my parts away, then immediately after get a fail and need that part back. Could you not get the gpu back from your friend for a couple of days just to see if at least the gpu is faulty. Process of illimination is my usual way of resolving problems.
 
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