Weird GPU error

TheTross

TheTross

TheTross

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If anyone can shed any light on this I'd be grateful, as I'm stumped.

Usually when I switch my rig on I am greeted by this rather decorative affair a few seconds after sitting at the welcome screen:

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The PC then seems to get stuck in a reboot loop. A hard reboot doesn't tend to solve the problem, but switching it off and leaving it for a few minutes before switching it back on again does. Once it's playing nicely I can throw anything at the rig and it performs flawlessly.

Spec:

Q9550 @ 3.4
GTX280 @ stock (285.58)
4GB
Corsair HX620W PSU

No WUs for any projects result in errors, so I'm pretty sure that the system is stable. It just seems like this rig doesn't like starting up on these cold mornings :p
 
Nope, it did it again this morning :(

Will try updating the BIOS at some point, though I'm leaning towards it being software related so I'll try different nvidia drivers first.

Edit: CaptainUnlikely, the motherboard is an Asus P5Q-E.
 
Have you tried a different slot for your card?
As you said, definitely try different drivers and take the option for a clean install when installing them, see if that helps.
If not, try starting in safe mode, if it still happens in safe mode it isn't a driver issue, definitely hardware.
Other things to try - reset your overclock temporarily, or mess with the PCI-E frequency, bump it up to 101, and try up to 105. That won't hurt anything but it may help.
 
Well, it happened again just as I was posting a reply in another thread :mad:

I took the opportunity to update the BIOS, so that's one thing ticked off my checklist. I'll try your other suggestions too CU, but for the time being I've disabled the GPU app in BOINC to see if it still does it.
 
Just a brief update: it appears to be the 280 that's the problem, as I've swapped it with my 250 and everything seems to be working normally again *touches wood*.
 
That's interesting, I'd have expected it to fall over under load or when the drivers are loaded rather than just after the welcome screen if the card was faulty, but that's not unheard of.
Hopefully that will be that, never good to find a piece of hardware is faulty but it's better than not knowing which piece it is!
 
It was a right pain this morning: every time I tried to use this PC I ended up looking at a garbled display, so I just gave up. I did remove the overclock as you suggested but that didn't help. As you say, hopefully that's that but it's a strange one :)
 
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