- Jul 20, 2014
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-------------------The Problem:-------------------
Lately my computer has been black screening and Showing snow like in the image below and then giving me the error " Display Driver has stopped responding and has recovered" or black screening, Snowand freezing all together. Sometimes it only takes and hour sometimes it takes 4 hours, its pretty random and no specific program seems to be causing the issue.
*******EDIT*******
I have been running on board graphics for the past 4 hours with no crashes, so i'm assuming it is an issue with my graphics card. Now my question is it the hardware or the software. When the gpu crashes I see no voltage spikes or anything that looks abnormal so I don't know how to tell besides RMAing the card but I'd rather avoid that if I can. Any ideas on how to know for sure?
-------------------I have tried:-------------------
1. A Clean driver wipe in safe mode with Beta drivers, current drivers and 3 older driver versions.
2. I have tried changing the PCI slot that my 680 is in.
3. Ran a full virus and malware scan. Also checked every process running on my computer.
4. Ran a Microsoft FIX IT relating to "Timeout Detection".
5. Pulled the card apart and blew out dust/cleaned, replaced thermal paste.
-------------------Some Important Things to Note:-------------------
1. I do not believe it is a heating issue because it has crashed at 30C and at 60C. It has crashed when I'm running firefox or chrome or if I'm playing a video game.
2. I did go a clean wipe and format of windows 2 weeks ago and this was not happening before then and this started 2 days after the format and wipe. I assume this is just a coincidence but who knows.
3. When I freezes All sound freezes too. Like if i'm playing a song it will just freeze it into a loop of the last .1 seconds.
4. My CPU is overclocked to 4.1 GHz, Base clock is 3.5GHz. It has been running like this since I got it over a year ago and temp never goes over 60C and voltage never over 12.9V
5. I can leave my computer running over night with the screens off and it will not crash.
-------------------My Specs:-------------------
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77V Deluxe
CPU: 3770K - Liquid cooled
Graphics Card: GTX 680 - Liquid cooled
Main Drive: 120G Intel Solid State
Backup Drive: 1TB Caviar Black
Screens: 1x HDMI, 1xDVI
PSU: 1050W - Corsair HX1050
-------------------Pics-------------------
Graphics Drivers recover error (this is someone elses picture, i have tried many different driver versions):
Snow on Screen During Most Recent Crash:
When I Restarted Windows after the most recent crash. This happens about every other time I have to restart but it is always gone at the windows log in screen.
GPU Stats At most Recent Crash
CPU Stats At most Recent Crash
Lately my computer has been black screening and Showing snow like in the image below and then giving me the error " Display Driver has stopped responding and has recovered" or black screening, Snowand freezing all together. Sometimes it only takes and hour sometimes it takes 4 hours, its pretty random and no specific program seems to be causing the issue.
*******EDIT*******
I have been running on board graphics for the past 4 hours with no crashes, so i'm assuming it is an issue with my graphics card. Now my question is it the hardware or the software. When the gpu crashes I see no voltage spikes or anything that looks abnormal so I don't know how to tell besides RMAing the card but I'd rather avoid that if I can. Any ideas on how to know for sure?
-------------------I have tried:-------------------
1. A Clean driver wipe in safe mode with Beta drivers, current drivers and 3 older driver versions.
2. I have tried changing the PCI slot that my 680 is in.
3. Ran a full virus and malware scan. Also checked every process running on my computer.
4. Ran a Microsoft FIX IT relating to "Timeout Detection".
5. Pulled the card apart and blew out dust/cleaned, replaced thermal paste.
-------------------Some Important Things to Note:-------------------
1. I do not believe it is a heating issue because it has crashed at 30C and at 60C. It has crashed when I'm running firefox or chrome or if I'm playing a video game.
2. I did go a clean wipe and format of windows 2 weeks ago and this was not happening before then and this started 2 days after the format and wipe. I assume this is just a coincidence but who knows.
3. When I freezes All sound freezes too. Like if i'm playing a song it will just freeze it into a loop of the last .1 seconds.
4. My CPU is overclocked to 4.1 GHz, Base clock is 3.5GHz. It has been running like this since I got it over a year ago and temp never goes over 60C and voltage never over 12.9V
5. I can leave my computer running over night with the screens off and it will not crash.
-------------------My Specs:-------------------
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77V Deluxe
CPU: 3770K - Liquid cooled
Graphics Card: GTX 680 - Liquid cooled
Main Drive: 120G Intel Solid State
Backup Drive: 1TB Caviar Black
Screens: 1x HDMI, 1xDVI
PSU: 1050W - Corsair HX1050
-------------------Pics-------------------
Graphics Drivers recover error (this is someone elses picture, i have tried many different driver versions):
Snow on Screen During Most Recent Crash:
When I Restarted Windows after the most recent crash. This happens about every other time I have to restart but it is always gone at the windows log in screen.
GPU Stats At most Recent Crash
CPU Stats At most Recent Crash
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