I perhaps have an odd problem regarding my GTX 970 (perhaps more specifically, the EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+) and/or my drivers. The issue is that at seemingly random times my screen locks up and and I can't do anything other than hard restart my PC, I can't tab out, ctrl+alt+del, or anything, not even the kb light for caps lock will respond, (caps lock is what I now use to test if my pc's crashed). Oddly, if there is no sound loop, the audio will continue on, for example, if I crash in the Witcher, the ambient noise will continue as normal, no looping, and in GTA, I was in a cutscene when it froze and Lester kept blabbering on as normal. What makes this issue worse is that I can't ever seem to find any dump or crash logs in the minidump folder or event viewer so I was left with no specific or even vague detail as to what causes it. The crashing happens mostly during gaming when playing games like GTA V and The Witcher 3, sometimes it happens while using chrome or another game, but that's only been a couple times.
The issue started about less than a week after I got it when it froze when I was playing Warframe and had to hard reset my pc. During the time I played that game with this GPU, it'd freeze often on that game and no other (that I can recall). I resolved that by using game specific fixes like turning off dx11, using borderless fullscreen and underclocking my gpu. Can't think off having any other problems after that.
I've googled near and far for anyone else whose had an issue similar to mine. From what I gathered online with no dump, error log/message to reference, I figured it could be anything, my psu, my ram, my HDD, my mobo, etc. I've tried all sorts of possible fixes, which have never seemed to work. Most of these include:
- Reinstalling the drivers, with regular installation, clean instillation, cleaned AMD and Nvidia drivers with DDU and did regular and clean installs.
- Updating my mobo bios.
- Underclocking my RAM.
- Underclocking my GPU.
- Extending the power limit on my gpu with MSI Afterburner.
- Checking my temps, CPU doesnt often go over 55c on a hot day w/full load and my GPU goes to 55-65c depending on the heat when playing the more intense games.
- Running memtest86, no errors.
- Running OCCT, again, no errors.
- Buying a new PSU.
- Trying to fix the nvlddmkm.sys errors that I spotted in event viewer.
- Switching back to my ol' HD 7870 (to see if it was something other than my GPU) no crashes, leading me to believe that it is indeed either my GPU or some sort of driver issue.
There might be a couple others I tried but can't remember right now.
So, at this time, that's all I can really say about the issue. If anyone can offer any advice or help, please do. I really didn't want to bother anyone with this, but I'm really at my wit's end right about now, so any help will be greatly appreciated. And if anyone does decide to help, let me know if you need further info, I'll do anything I can to help you help me.
Sorry for huge wall of text, but I want to make sure I have all the bases covered.
And I almost forgot my specs:
CPU: FX 8320 (stock speeds)
GPU: EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+
RAM: 8gb DDR3
MOBO: m5a78l-m/usb3
PSU: ARC-M650
The issue started about less than a week after I got it when it froze when I was playing Warframe and had to hard reset my pc. During the time I played that game with this GPU, it'd freeze often on that game and no other (that I can recall). I resolved that by using game specific fixes like turning off dx11, using borderless fullscreen and underclocking my gpu. Can't think off having any other problems after that.
I've googled near and far for anyone else whose had an issue similar to mine. From what I gathered online with no dump, error log/message to reference, I figured it could be anything, my psu, my ram, my HDD, my mobo, etc. I've tried all sorts of possible fixes, which have never seemed to work. Most of these include:
- Reinstalling the drivers, with regular installation, clean instillation, cleaned AMD and Nvidia drivers with DDU and did regular and clean installs.
- Updating my mobo bios.
- Underclocking my RAM.
- Underclocking my GPU.
- Extending the power limit on my gpu with MSI Afterburner.
- Checking my temps, CPU doesnt often go over 55c on a hot day w/full load and my GPU goes to 55-65c depending on the heat when playing the more intense games.
- Running memtest86, no errors.
- Running OCCT, again, no errors.
- Buying a new PSU.
- Trying to fix the nvlddmkm.sys errors that I spotted in event viewer.
- Switching back to my ol' HD 7870 (to see if it was something other than my GPU) no crashes, leading me to believe that it is indeed either my GPU or some sort of driver issue.
There might be a couple others I tried but can't remember right now.
So, at this time, that's all I can really say about the issue. If anyone can offer any advice or help, please do. I really didn't want to bother anyone with this, but I'm really at my wit's end right about now, so any help will be greatly appreciated. And if anyone does decide to help, let me know if you need further info, I'll do anything I can to help you help me.
Sorry for huge wall of text, but I want to make sure I have all the bases covered.
And I almost forgot my specs:
CPU: FX 8320 (stock speeds)
GPU: EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+
RAM: 8gb DDR3
MOBO: m5a78l-m/usb3
PSU: ARC-M650
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