Super weird frame drop all time!

zodiacsoulmate

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Mar 24, 2013
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First, my system:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD7-B3
CPU: Core i7-2600k
GPU: EVGA GTX 260 SLI
RAM: 16Gb(no fault)
SSD Vertex 4
PSU: Corsair AX1200
Also watercooling system.


I left my system turned on overnight, and in the morning today when I tried to play a mkv file, the video lagged ( have about 1 frame drop every second).

This kind of thing has never happened before, so I restarted the system. However, after restart, the system just won't boot up, the debug LED shows nothing ( it shows FF when everything is fine), monitor gets no signal.

So I think is motherboard problem. Then I followed the instruction on the manual to reset the CMOS and bios setting (by pressing the two reset button onboard), it doesn't work. So I tried the old way, pop out the battery and waited for 2 mins, and it worked!

However, I still get the frame drop issue, even in windows, in every application, in every game.
So I thought about what I did last night.
I uninstalled EVGA Precision X, and the EVGA SLI Patch.
So I restore the system back to the time before I uninstalled these software, but it didn't do anything about the frame drop.
Then I did a clean install of Geforce driver, and uninstalled those two software, did a registry clean, it still doesn't help.
I also tried using another GPU, doesn't help.

* one weird thing: when the motherboard refused to boot up, I found out that the gtx 260's fun was not spinning. However when I tried a gts250, the fun spin at full speed.
**also, all indicator light on the motherboard are normal state, funs spinning, only the debug light shows nothing.
*** although the frame drop happens everywhere, the mouse cursor seems to have no frame drop.

I'm glad the system is working now, but still, the frame drop issue is a pain.
Please help.
Thanks.
 

zodiacsoulmate

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Mar 24, 2013
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Yes I tried, and there is frame drop.
The gpu is good, not dying.
I just uninstalled all graphic driver and did a driver sweep, and when no nvidia driver is installed, the fame drop goes away...
but as soon as I reinstall it, it comes back.
I will try to find out what happened to my driver, since I didn't change any setting .
Thanks anyway.
 

zodiacsoulmate

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Mar 24, 2013
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Yes I tried, and there is frame drop.
The gpu is good, not dying.
I just uninstalled all graphic driver and did a driver sweep, and when no nvidia driver is installed, the fame drop goes away...
but as soon as I reinstall it, it comes back.
I will try to find out what happened to my driver, since I didn't change any setting .
Thanks anyway.