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GTX 680 Suddenly died for a sec and has been wonky since then. Cannot game at all. Help needed.

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October 17, 2014 10:29:00 PM

So I will describe in as much detail as I can, some might not be related or useful, but I will include anyways.

The original problem:
So I've had my GTX 680 for 2 or 3 years now. It has always been working fine even when I pushed it to its limit. It has never had any sort of weird problems. Funny thing is, I haven't done graphics intense gaming for almost half a year now. All I play these days are hearthstone and minecraft. Today while I was playing minecraft, at some point in time I suddenly hear a fan (should be GPU fans) spin up like crazy - just a blast of it and then stopped, then immediately everything on the monitors went to black. However after a few seconds, it recovers and tells me this error report:

"The NVIDIA OpenGL driver lost connection with the display
driver due to exceeding the Windows Time-Out limit and is unable to continue.
The application must close."

After that. My GPU becomes extremely wonky and I cannot play any games that requires any GPU power. My GPU is still working to some degree, but super super slow. When I open up something like hearthstone, it would black screen for 20 seconds or so before it has rendered everything (I assume) then the screen comes back and the animation will play (I can even play it for a bit - I didn't test too much tho). To add to that it isn't very consistent yet. After the first recovery, I continued to play minecraft for another hour or so before it happened again. This time no recovery (or maybe I didn't wait long enough). A quick hard reset shows black screen as well. I had to turn my computer and PSU off for a bit, then started again where it finally at least shows me my windows.

So now I'm stuck here.

My fan doesn't spin up anymore like it should be normally when I start a game. At least I can't hear it anymore. The intake is still spinning on the GPU. I remember I was so desperate and confused I even touched it with my hand at some points and it wasn't even hot. At this point I'm very very confused. I tried with a few games and the problem remains similar, but inconsistent in the time of failure, and most games can't even be run (bioshock infinite, borderlands 2 - which I used to play all the time before with this card).

Something that could've mattered(?) is recently I've bought a 2nd monitor. And all of their powers are going into the same plug extension. I wonder if things are over-drawing power and somehow the plug extension is messed up and affected it? Unlikely but I'm just throwing all possible things. I did a quick check in bios, and all voltage on my motherboard looks fine at that time.

Another thing that could possibly affected is recently i had a couple short power outages with a small gaps in between. So in the last 3 months there might be 3 times of power being suddenly cut off. However I was still gaming just fine 2 days ago. And nothing happened between then and today.

Extremely frustrated and confused right now. Any help would be appreciated.

I play with computers a lot, especially on the software side. But I'm really not that well-knowledged on the hardware stuffs especially when it comes to testing and fixing. If anyone wants me to give further details, please let me know, and if it isn't very typical kind of data / response, please tell me how to obtain it as well. Thanks!!

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October 17, 2014 10:37:38 PM

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is nothing simple. Most likely, your GPU is on its way out.

There are other possibilites though. The PCIe slot could of gone out, or the line coming from your PSU went bad.

Try 2 things...

Another 6 or 6x2 pin power connector, and reseat the video card (in another slot, if you have one).
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October 17, 2014 10:45:42 PM

did u reinstalled the gpu driver,or some graphic software like silverlight or visual c++?
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October 17, 2014 11:00:48 PM

Brillis Wuce said:
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is nothing simple. Most likely, your GPU is on its way out.

There are other possibilites though. The PCIe slot could of gone out, or the line coming from your PSU went bad.

Try 2 things...

Another 6 or 6x2 pin power connector, and reseat the video card (in another slot, if you have one).


Even funnier is now that I took a longer break and updated the driver (somehow didn't update to the newest one, but I doubt that was the CAUSE of the problem since I do regularly update it), it seems to work again, and normal as far as I can tell. I really don't feel safe about it and still curious to know what happened in the first place. But I guess I will take what I can get and run with it. Another quick google yielded that minecraft has known to cause some weird crashes on PC once in a while. But to such extent goes beyond my imagination (how could a game crash the entire system in a way that even after turning off, waited, then restarting doesn't work at some point?) Hopefully it won't occur again.

Thanks for the brief answer and help anyways though! :) 
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October 17, 2014 11:04:32 PM

ganjaker said:
did u reinstalled the gpu driver,or some graphic software like silverlight or visual c++?


I didn't. But after I turned off my computer for a longer break then started again just now, I was checking all my graphics card settings and I realized I have missed my "newest" update. So with nothing better to do I updated anyways. And right now it seems to work fine. However it was probably some other issues that caused my initial problem. Because while I was downloading the new driver... I could already run some games that I couldn't earlier. Such a weird thing and now I think it's most likely to be caused by Minecraft. I will pick you as solution anyways.. Thanks. :) 
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