- Aug 16, 2014
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Hello everyone! Longtime viewer and first time poster here.
I came here to maybe seek additional advice regarding my problem.
A couple of days ago my display driver kept crashing. I have read some information about increasing the TDR because that could cause it to crash. My first course of action was to update my drivers to the 340 whql drivers from nvidia. Updating the drivers didn't seem to work so I went ahead and downgraded to a known stable driver. Eventually this lead to a complete reformat of my hard drive and the issue still persisted.
At that time after I reinstalled all my drivers for all my other devices. Another thing to note the computer froze and locked up everytime the display driver crashed. Furthermore sometimes after/during a crash the computer even gave me a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Ontop of freezing when the crash was happening it even made my audio loop/stutter. Eventually I decided to increase the TDR value to 8 in my registry. After a day or two with fighting with this issue it just went away.
After the issue went away the overall performance of the computer went down. Stuff taking longer to load than it should, FPS drops in games where I should be able to crush them with my current build. Lastly I never have overclocked any of my components and this build is roughly 1 year old. The HDD was purchased in 2008 as I have been using it throughout multiple builds.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my giant wall of text.
I tested my components with the following tests:
Seagate Tools ran all tests on my HDD including the S.M.A.R.T test and everything came back fine.
Ran a memtest86 for 8 hours with 2 passes without any errors.
Did a cpu burn test and it came back fine.
During every burn test I ran HWmonitor and nothing gets to hot.
System Specs
Windows 7 64bit SP1
Intel Core i7 3960x
Corsair 750W Power Supply
8x Kingston HyperX RAM DDR3 Quad 32GB
1x Seagate Raptor 7200RPM 1TB
Asus Sabertooth x79 Motherboard
Geforce 770 GTX
I came here to maybe seek additional advice regarding my problem.
A couple of days ago my display driver kept crashing. I have read some information about increasing the TDR because that could cause it to crash. My first course of action was to update my drivers to the 340 whql drivers from nvidia. Updating the drivers didn't seem to work so I went ahead and downgraded to a known stable driver. Eventually this lead to a complete reformat of my hard drive and the issue still persisted.
At that time after I reinstalled all my drivers for all my other devices. Another thing to note the computer froze and locked up everytime the display driver crashed. Furthermore sometimes after/during a crash the computer even gave me a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Ontop of freezing when the crash was happening it even made my audio loop/stutter. Eventually I decided to increase the TDR value to 8 in my registry. After a day or two with fighting with this issue it just went away.
After the issue went away the overall performance of the computer went down. Stuff taking longer to load than it should, FPS drops in games where I should be able to crush them with my current build. Lastly I never have overclocked any of my components and this build is roughly 1 year old. The HDD was purchased in 2008 as I have been using it throughout multiple builds.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to read my giant wall of text.
I tested my components with the following tests:
Seagate Tools ran all tests on my HDD including the S.M.A.R.T test and everything came back fine.
Ran a memtest86 for 8 hours with 2 passes without any errors.
Did a cpu burn test and it came back fine.
During every burn test I ran HWmonitor and nothing gets to hot.
System Specs
Windows 7 64bit SP1
Intel Core i7 3960x
Corsair 750W Power Supply
8x Kingston HyperX RAM DDR3 Quad 32GB
1x Seagate Raptor 7200RPM 1TB
Asus Sabertooth x79 Motherboard
Geforce 770 GTX
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