The Ampere RTX 3090 Owners Thread

dazbo1 · 2 Dec 2020 at 08:20

vapor matt said:
Try re installing the drivers. what brand of card is it?

Sorry, should have said it's the FE

vapor matt · 2 Dec 2020 at 08:22

dazbo1 said:
Sorry, should have said it's the FE

The FE has one of the best VRm's around, only the Gamerock 3090oc has more, even the strix has less than the fe 3090

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Dec 2020 at 08:23

Take the card out and reseat as well, check PCI-E cables back to the PSU, I've had weird crashes before on a modular PSU and the cable wasn't quite in PSU end.

dazbo1 · 2 Dec 2020 at 08:45

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Take the card out and reseat as well, check PCI-E cables back to the PSU, I've had weird crashes before on a modular PSU and the cable wasn't quite in PSU end.

Thanks - I reseated it several times whilst I checked my old card was still working.
And I tried different PSU cables and unplugging and plugging them back in

dazbo1 · 2 Dec 2020 at 08:46

dazbo1 said:
Ok thanks - Geforce Experience says I have the latest drivers but I'll try to uninstall and then reinstall

Reinstalled the drivers but got the same crash loading into Metro Exodus unfortunately

vapor matt · 2 Dec 2020 at 08:49

dazbo1 said:
Reinstalled the drivers but got the same crash loading into Metro Exodus unfortunately

I think that could be RMA time then, first Fe i have seen that had problems but no doubt not the last. perhaps they are rushing these new cards to much to get them out there.

dazbo1 · 2 Dec 2020 at 08:51

dazbo1 said:
Reinstalled the drivers but got the same crash loading into Metro Exodus unfortunately

vapor matt said:
I think that could be RMA time then, first Fe i have seen that had problems but no doubt not the last. perhaps they are rushing these new cards to much to get them out there.

Probably - it's even crashing when I try and load Time Spy at the "collecting system info" stage

gpuerrilla · 2 Dec 2020 at 08:56

dazbo1 said:
Hi all

I’ve recently joined the 3090 owners club!
And for 2 days I was enjoying the card. Then I tried a bit of undervolting as I’d read about the good results you guys were getting. I undervolted to about 850mV and everything seemed stable and I played a couple of hours of Metro Exodus.

Then the game crashed and I had to hard reboot. But since then I can’t load any games or benchmarking as the card seems to crash immediately forcing hard reboots - well, I can get to the menu of Metro Exodus for example but it crashes as soon as I try and continue the game.

Could I have damaged the card undervolting?
Or could it be my power supply? I have a Corsair HX850 which I thought was reasonable. (And when I put my old Strix 2080 OC back in it seems fine and I can game on that still.)

Thanks for any help.

Make sure you nuke the AB software for applying at bootup. You want to load windows at defaults, if you checked the box to apply at startup this can put you in a lockout. I would see if you can borrow or swap in another PSU to rule that out first, it could also be another component (mobo, RAM). Reset your BIOS to defaults, no overclocks. After that its RMA time I guess.

dazbo1 · 2 Dec 2020 at 09:12

Th0nt said:
Make sure you nuke the AB software for applying at bootup. You want to load windows at defaults, if you checked the box to apply at startup this can put you in a lockout. I would see if you can borrow or swap in another PSU to rule that out first, it could also be another component (mobo, RAM). Reset your BIOS to defaults, no overclocks. After that its RMA time I guess.

Thanks - AB is disabled at windows startup. But I'll try setting the BIOS to default idea in a bit.

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Dec 2020 at 09:33

That's really unlucky, bet you don't undervolt the next one :-P

dazbo1 · 2 Dec 2020 at 09:34

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
That's really unlucky, bet you don't undervolt the next one

LOL - my first and last dabbling in undervolting!

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Dec 2020 at 09:41

Hope it doesn't void your warranty

dazbo1 · 2 Dec 2020 at 09:43

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
Hope it doesn't void your warranty

I don't think I'll mention it when I send it back (it's with a competitor)

And I wasn't trying to overclock it which I can understand may push it too far and cause damage. I would have thought these cards have tons of safeguards built in anyway.

deuse · 2 Dec 2020 at 09:49

dazbo1 said:
I don't think I'll mention it when I send it back (it's with a competitor)
And I wasn't trying to overclock it which I can understand may push it too far and cause damage. I would have thought these cards have tons of safeguards built in anyway.

I put my 3090 on my contents insurance

Purgatory · 2 Dec 2020 at 09:49

dazbo1 said:
I don't think I'll mention it when I send it back (it's with a competitor)
And I wasn't trying to overclock it which I can understand may push it too far and cause damage. I would have thought these cards have tons of safeguards built in anyway.

Have you tried to use DDU to remove all traces of the driver and reinstall ?

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-v18034-released

Born_2_Kill_83 · 2 Dec 2020 at 09:56

deuse said:
I put my 3090 on my contents insurance

I have my whole PC on the contents insurance, proved useful a couple of years back when I killed Titan Xp putting a AIO on it

dazbo1 · 2 Dec 2020 at 09:56

Purgatory said:
Have you tried to use DDU to remove all traces of the driver and reinstall ?

https://www.wagnardsoft.com/content/display-driver-uninstaller-ddu-v18034-released

Didn't try that - I just manually downloaded the latest driver and used Nvidia's clean installation . I could give that one a go later

deuse · 2 Dec 2020 at 10:05

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
I have my whole PC on the contents insurance, proved useful a couple of years back when I killed Titan Xp putting a AIO on it

When I told them how much the single item was...they said HOW MUCH

Tiny_D · 2 Dec 2020 at 10:12

dazbo1 said:
I don't think I'll mention it when I send it back (it's with a competitor)
And I wasn't trying to overclock it which I can understand may push it too far and cause damage. I would have thought these cards have tons of safeguards built in anyway.

These cards are all designed that you cant damage them anymore with simply setting things in Afterburner/OC software, there just made that way now you will be fine. Ofc claim ignorance so they don't have an excuse but still... Gutted for you if it is faulty.

Really chuffed with my FE!!
Check my GPU temp on stock cooler (maxed this run 100% for giggles) it normally runs 58c on normal fan profile with this under volt. 906mV/2040mhz sits there happy all day, thats an awesome under volt for OC stable! OFC in 3DMark its draws 380w average in games around 280w.

Memory I would add @500Mhz is the sweet spot for my card no ECC, however in 3DMark you still gain points @750mhz. For every day use I sit at 500mhz where i know there are no errors.

dazbo1 · 2 Dec 2020 at 10:25

Tiny_D said:
These cards are all designed that you cant damage them anymore with simply setting things in Afterburner/OC software, there just made that way now you will be fine. Ofc claim ignorance so they don't have an excuse but still... Gutted for you if it is faulty.

Really chuffed with my FE!!
Check my GPU temp on stock cooler (maxed this run 100% for giggles) it normally runs 58c on normal fan profile with this under volt. 906mV/2040mhz sits there happy all day, thats an awesome under volt for OC stable! OFC in 3DMark its draws 380w average in games around 280w.

Memory I would add @500Mhz is the sweet spot for my card no ECC, however in 3DMark you still gain points @750mhz. For every day use I sit at 500mhz where i know there are no errors.

I was chuffed with it until it started playing up - it's an impressive piece of kit. I'm hoping it's the PSU although an HX850 should be ok I would have thought. I'll try and source another one in the next couple of days to try.