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Long shot, as I don't think you would even be able to get into a game if this was the case, but do you have the correct power leads plugged into your graphics card? And are you using the first PCIE slot on you board?
 
BongoHunter said:
Long shot, as I don't think you would even be able to get into a game if this was the case, but do you have the correct power leads plugged into your graphics card? And are you using the first PCIE slot on you board?
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The card has an 8-pin connection in which it's connected and yes, the card is in the first slot 16/8x
 
Update: After using DDU to uninstall drivers, I think it's made the matter worse as after reading other suggestions, it has mentioned to do it in safe mode in which i didn't do and seems I've wiped the vbios feom the card. As it's a GIGABYTE card, I tried using their @BIOS and Easy Boot utilities to reflash the BIOS but neither of them recognised the card. I've had to raise a support ticket with them to see what I can do.

Update 2: After further investigation I have managed to find an nvidia flashing utility and vbios for my card but unsure if the source is credible or not:

www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/184003/gigabyte-gtx1070-8192-160520

Sorry for the link to a different site but could someone verify if this seems correct or not
 
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Actually, scrub the last post. Just used GPU-Z and its confirmed the BIOS version of the card so seems I was wrong but on that note, none of the suggestions I've found or been advised of, have worked so I'm lost on what to do without having to drain my system to reseat the card
 
dazzyboy10 said:
Actually, scrub the last post. Just used GPU-Z and its confirmed the BIOS version of the card so seems I was wrong but on that note, none of the suggestions I've found or been advised of, have worked so I'm lost on what to do without having to drain my system to reseat the card
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ah ive never dabbled with watercooling so didnt know you had to drain the whole thing just to reseat the card.. what a pain

not sure what else to suggest then, other than returning the card if possible.. i dont have a 1070 or any of the new cards myself so ive never encountered the issue
maybe try contacting gigabyte and see what they suggest? if its a known issue they may have a fix or simply tell you to send the card back

anyway, goodluck and let us know how you get on
 
I've submitted a ticket. Also found other users with similar problems who suggested rolling back the driver to "pre optimal settings inclusion" 365.19 or even using nvidiainspector to set the p-state levels. May give this a shot
 
Still no luck. Managed to reseat the card but still nothing. Looks like I'm out of options apart from waiting for esupport to get back to me or flash the vbios
 
I dont think its a BIOS issue. This sounds like a driver issue or another piece of software install on your Windows install.

Do you have AV installed? I would do something like this
1) RUN>MSCONFIG
2) Selective Start-up
3) Uncheck "load start-up items".

Is your windows fully updated?
 
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After everything I've done it just sits like this.

Does that power usage seem rather high?
 
All that is showing is your card is idling in Windows at lower clocks which is what it should do. Can click on apply defaults in nvidia inspector and you changed settings on the power states? Also can you put your power profile in windows to High Performance mode to see if it makes any changes.

Load up a game in windows mode and check what the current clock is in GPU-Z.
 
Also why is your GPU clock lower than the default clock? What please revert any overclock settings you have put on using afterburner or whatever is used.
 
Have you actually read the whole thread. The current clock is stuck at that speed and it's what im trying to sort out. The system hasn't even been overclocked.

The gpu is idling at 139Mhz and won't move from that, even under full load either in a game or stress testing.

Also from my knowledge, the card should only be drawing around 140W but the app is stating around 380+W. Even GPU monitoring is saying power is 255+ % TDP which is causing a perfcap of PWR.
 
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Upon further investigation, this card should be drawing around 79W when idle and hitting around 290W at full load so I don't get why mine is getting 384W when idle
 
dazzyboy10 said:
Have you actually read the whole thread. The current clock is stuck at that speed and it's what im trying to sort out. The system hasn't even been overclocked.

The gpu is idling at 139Mhz and won't move from that, even under full load either in a game or stress testing.

Also from my knowledge, the card should only be drawing around 140W but the app is stating around 380+W. Even GPU monitoring is saying power is 255+ % TDP which is causing a perfcap of PWR.
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Look at the picture YOU posted.

GPU clock: 1354
Default clock: 1506.

I am not talking about Current Clock. Your memory has slightly been overclocked aswell. So it looks like there is definitely settings that have been applied.

Yes it is strange that its drawing more than it should be. I would also uninstall Norton....
 
I changed that momentarily as previous thread I'd read suggested to try and underclock to see if it reverts it but it's back on stock now and still saying the same.

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Don't understand why pics are rotating, sorry
 
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