Hey all,
I realized that a lot of people are having issues with Nvidia Display Driver, without good answer to the question: How to fix it?
After going trough hundreds of posts and forums I finally succeeded to fix it on my computer and I would like to share my experience with those who have the same problem.
MB: Maximus V Extreme
CPU: i7 3770K
GPU: EVGA GTX 680 Classified 4GB and EVGA GTX 650 Ti SSC 2GB
RAM: 16GB Corsair Dominator GT 2133MHz
PSU: Enermax Platimax 1000W
Sound card: ASUS Xonar STX
SSD: Intel 520 120GB
HD: WD Green 3TB
While waiting for EVGA GTX 680 Classified 4GB (it was out of stock) I have ordered EVGA GTX 650 Ti SSC 2GB. For the first few weeks I was using ATI Radeon HD 5970 in the 1st native PCI-e 3.0 16x slot without any problems at all, but as soon as I sold ATI and replaced it with EVGA GTX 650 Ti SSC 2GB, nightmare started.
Nvidia Display Driver Has Stopped Responding and Successfully Recovered... without any reason. It didn't matter if I was writing a mail, watching youtube, moves, or playing games... display driver was crashing 24/7, 10-20 times per day. So I reinstalled Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit as well as Nvidia drivers, but the problem was still there. I have also tried with older drivers - no success.
Then I decided to "play" with my GPU. After downloading EVGA PrecisionX and increasing core voltage from 1062mV to 1087mV GPU suddenly became much more stable (3-5 crashes per day). Reducing/increasing clock speeds gave nothing... only voltage (increasing)! At that point I have opened a ticket for RMA, just a week before EVGA GTX 680 Classified 4GB is going to "arrive".
For the last time I wanted to see if I can fix EVGA GTX 650 Ti SSC 2GB so switched it to the 2nd PCI-e 3.0 16x slot over PLX chip. Surprise, it is working flawlessly! 3rd slot native - GPU was unstable! 4th PCI-e slot over PLX - stable!
I have no idea what is happening here, but it seems that Nvidia likes PLX chip? I was confused so I took my brothers AMD Radeon HD 7970 and tested it in all PCI-e slots just to make sure that my MB is working properly, and I didn't experience any problems with ATI whatsoever!
I don't have any reasonable explanation regarding this matter, but it worked for me and I hope that someone else will find this post useful! I still have to see if EVGA GTX 680 Classified 4GB is going to be stable in the 1st PCI-e slot and i will update this post in the next few days, but if anyone can explain me how is it possible that GPU is stable only via PLX chip... I would appreciate it!
I realized that a lot of people are having issues with Nvidia Display Driver, without good answer to the question: How to fix it?
After going trough hundreds of posts and forums I finally succeeded to fix it on my computer and I would like to share my experience with those who have the same problem.
MB: Maximus V Extreme
CPU: i7 3770K
GPU: EVGA GTX 680 Classified 4GB and EVGA GTX 650 Ti SSC 2GB
RAM: 16GB Corsair Dominator GT 2133MHz
PSU: Enermax Platimax 1000W
Sound card: ASUS Xonar STX
SSD: Intel 520 120GB
HD: WD Green 3TB
While waiting for EVGA GTX 680 Classified 4GB (it was out of stock) I have ordered EVGA GTX 650 Ti SSC 2GB. For the first few weeks I was using ATI Radeon HD 5970 in the 1st native PCI-e 3.0 16x slot without any problems at all, but as soon as I sold ATI and replaced it with EVGA GTX 650 Ti SSC 2GB, nightmare started.
Nvidia Display Driver Has Stopped Responding and Successfully Recovered... without any reason. It didn't matter if I was writing a mail, watching youtube, moves, or playing games... display driver was crashing 24/7, 10-20 times per day. So I reinstalled Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit as well as Nvidia drivers, but the problem was still there. I have also tried with older drivers - no success.
Then I decided to "play" with my GPU. After downloading EVGA PrecisionX and increasing core voltage from 1062mV to 1087mV GPU suddenly became much more stable (3-5 crashes per day). Reducing/increasing clock speeds gave nothing... only voltage (increasing)! At that point I have opened a ticket for RMA, just a week before EVGA GTX 680 Classified 4GB is going to "arrive".
For the last time I wanted to see if I can fix EVGA GTX 650 Ti SSC 2GB so switched it to the 2nd PCI-e 3.0 16x slot over PLX chip. Surprise, it is working flawlessly! 3rd slot native - GPU was unstable! 4th PCI-e slot over PLX - stable!
I have no idea what is happening here, but it seems that Nvidia likes PLX chip? I was confused so I took my brothers AMD Radeon HD 7970 and tested it in all PCI-e slots just to make sure that my MB is working properly, and I didn't experience any problems with ATI whatsoever!
I don't have any reasonable explanation regarding this matter, but it worked for me and I hope that someone else will find this post useful! I still have to see if EVGA GTX 680 Classified 4GB is going to be stable in the 1st PCI-e slot and i will update this post in the next few days, but if anyone can explain me how is it possible that GPU is stable only via PLX chip... I would appreciate it!
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