Nvidia GPU Freezing

aciddemon123 · Jun 24, 2014

Hello Everyone.
My friend's computer had an problem which is that when he is playing a game (the more the game "consumes" the more it happens)the game COMPLETELY freezes, the colors go all crazy and if he quickly switches to his desktop this shows up :

http://i.imgur.com/0HFUvLp.png

His computer specs are :
> Ram : 4,00GB
> CPU : Intel i5 3470
> GPU : Nvidia GeForce GTX660

I've tried updating his drivers, doing clean uninstall and installing again i even Formatted his computer to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit...and it still happens ! :-/

I also tried a program to see the GPU temperature

Idle , without any program open - http://prntscr.com/3w03f5

League of Legends Very Low Quality - http://prntscr.com/3w0557

League of Legends Very High Quality - http://prntscr.com/3w05qi

Also consider that this game happens this error, the higher the quality the more it happens.

Any Solutions ?

Thanks

Gameduck · Jun 24, 2014

Has he overclocked the gpu? If so i recommend that he lowers the clock.
If he hasn't overclocked it then i recommend you to bring it to the nearest workshop.

stephenkall · Jun 24, 2014

I had this problem with some driver versions for GTX 560. When I moved back to driver version 275, it stopped.
Then, with version 275, I noticed another problem: Whenever I ran DX11 games for long enough, my whole computer would freeze and I had to hard reset (no Ctrl+Alt+Del would work at all).

Turns out that the stock BIOS version I had allowed higher than normal voltages through the videocard. The older drivers didn't have a failsafe switch, so whenever the voltage was high enough, it would freeze the computer. The newer drivers, however, would turn the videocard off and on, just like a circuit breaker disarming and rearming in sequence.

I solved it by flashing the videocard with a newer BIOS version and updating the driver back to 337 version.

mamasan2000 · Jun 24, 2014

I had that issue with GTX 760 as well. I just raised the voltage. Max allowed for mine is 1.21volts. If you go any higher, the drivers won't allow it, card wont work. So I'm running 1.21 volts all the time in games, flashed the card with a BIOS I edited with Kepler Bios Tweaker.

I tried all the other fixes people have come up with, none of those worked, only upping the voltage. If you don't feel comfortable flashing GPUs BIOS, you can use MSI afterburner or similar and up the voltage 12 mV. Result is the same, only BIOS flashing is a permanent solution.

GTX660 might use lower MAX voltage, bear that in mind. 1.18 v for example.

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