- Feb 5, 2014
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Okay, its friday night and someone wants to play some games. They start up AC4 and there is a distinct stuttering issue. They start up The Witcher 2 and the same stuttering occurs while keeping in the 30-40fps range.Then, curiously enough, upon looking at MSI afterburner, the card is only running at around 500MHz. I then started up Furmark and ran it at 1080p with 4X MSAA and the card crashed. Then after rebooting, games now just artifact and crash after a minute or two (the connection turns off but the system doesn't reboot or anything). Furmark just crashes the card after a few seconds of running as well. It did give me a classic driver display has stopped working but recovered error but I don't think its a driver issue.
I had just replaced the fans on the card as one of the ones that was on it originally had a failing bearing. I found the same 100mm x 100mm twin frozr fans on amazon somehow and ordered them last week and they came in tonight. There were no problems with the installation but the queer thing is that right after I installed the new fans, I've gotten these issues.
Checklist
- I made sure that there is a proper mount on the card and the screws around the GPU core are tightened evenly and
- tried different slots on the motherboard as well as firmly inserting the card into the slot
- completely reinstalled the drivers (i-it's not like I wouldn't know anything about drivers and reinstalling them or anything)
- checked stability of my CPU using prime95 (it's good)
- changed BIOS settings to default and disabled CPU and RAM overclocks (GPU was never overclocked because the 290X runs hot as it is)
- tested it in uber and quiet mode ( crashes occurred in both BIOS modes)
- ran the fans at 100% while testing at all times in order to ensure the coolest temps
- tried downclocking to 700MHz (still crashed)
Anyone mind checking me off to see if I missed anything? Really stumped here. (Just to reiterate everything is at stock clocks)
I used MSI Afterburner to watch temps/clocks and specs are in signature for those who are blind.
I had just replaced the fans on the card as one of the ones that was on it originally had a failing bearing. I found the same 100mm x 100mm twin frozr fans on amazon somehow and ordered them last week and they came in tonight. There were no problems with the installation but the queer thing is that right after I installed the new fans, I've gotten these issues.
Checklist
- I made sure that there is a proper mount on the card and the screws around the GPU core are tightened evenly and
- tried different slots on the motherboard as well as firmly inserting the card into the slot
- completely reinstalled the drivers (i-it's not like I wouldn't know anything about drivers and reinstalling them or anything)
- checked stability of my CPU using prime95 (it's good)
- changed BIOS settings to default and disabled CPU and RAM overclocks (GPU was never overclocked because the 290X runs hot as it is)
- tested it in uber and quiet mode ( crashes occurred in both BIOS modes)
- ran the fans at 100% while testing at all times in order to ensure the coolest temps
- tried downclocking to 700MHz (still crashed)
Anyone mind checking me off to see if I missed anything? Really stumped here. (Just to reiterate everything is at stock clocks)
I used MSI Afterburner to watch temps/clocks and specs are in signature for those who are blind.
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