Nvidia control panel hangs then crashes when enabling SLI

StarCry · Apr 12, 2016

I have been trying to enable SLI for my GTX 770s, my first time trying to set it up. After installing both cards and going into the Nvidia control panel to enable SLI it begins the process, the screen flashes a couple of times and then the display resolution drops, the process hangs and after a while of leaving it I get a message telling me that the control panel has stopped responding.

I have tested each card individually and they both work fine and have tried swapping them around on the motherboard as well as trying it on a few different drivers. I'm not sure what else to try at this point.

Setup:
i5 6600k
MSI Z170a Gaming Pro
Corsair Vengeance 2x8GB
Inno3D 770 4GB x2
Corsair CX750W (Replacing with an EVGA Supernova 850W very soon)
Windows 10 Professional

I also have a PCI wireless card, although I'm not sure whether that would affect anything.

Edit:
I tried using and older driver and enabling it whilst in native resolution and it worked!

renz496 · Apr 17, 2016

So everthing is fine now?

StarCry · Apr 18, 2016

Works fine on general use and for older games, but when running anything more taxing (like Witcher 3) for a while I have been getting driver crashes.

renz496 · Apr 18, 2016

Did you overclocked your gpu?

StarCry · Apr 19, 2016

renz496 :

No, one is at its stock clocks and one of the cards downclocked so that both are running at the same clock speeds as they were slightly different for some reason

renz496 · Apr 20, 2016

Did you downclock the card yourself or did the system downclock it for you? If possible try running both gpu at it's stock setting.

StarCry · Apr 20, 2016

I did it in Afterburner. Set both back to stock and tried running Witcher for a while again but still encountered the driver crash,

renz496 · Apr 20, 2016

What about other games? Does the crush only happen with the witcher 3?

StarCry · Apr 21, 2016

renz496 :

So far it's been fine on Football Manager and World at War. I've had the crash on CoD4, Witcher 3 and Battlefront so far

renz496 · Apr 21, 2016

Have you tried using DDU for clean driver install? Did the crash happen while in game or after closing the game?

StarCry · Apr 21, 2016

Haven't tried that yet, I'll give it a go today and update with the results. The crash always happens in game, sometimes crashing the game along with it

azzazel_99 · Apr 21, 2016

Use something like evga's oc scanner and monitor the temps and usages in afterburner. This way you can see exactly what its doing when it crashes. I would as stated use DDU and uninstall all the current drivers then install new drivers and malso make sure your motherboard drivers and bios are at the latest revisions

StarCry · Apr 21, 2016

Did a clean driver install with DDU earlier and have yet to run into another crash, will update again if it starts happening again after more use.

When I tried using the oc scanner the image was constantly flickering. Not sure if that is something I should be worried about?

azzazel_99 · Apr 21, 2016

it happens with sli enabled.

StarCry · Apr 22, 2016

Worked fine all of last night, but got a crash again this morning

renz496 · Apr 22, 2016

So there seems to be a bit of stability issue. Haven't use SLI since last year so i don't really know the current state of SLI. This is unlikely to be issue but have you tried using other SLI bridge?

StarCry · Apr 22, 2016

Don't have another SLI bridge, will look into ordering a new one. Would it be best to get any specific one or just anything available?

renz496 · Apr 22, 2016

You can use any SLI bridge.

StarCry · May 7, 2016

Haven't had a chance to play around with my system today. Updated my BIOS and it seems to have fixed all of the issues I was having. No crashes since and I was able to update to the newest graphics drivers and enable SLI without the control panel crashing. Here's hoping it's completely fixed

renz496 · May 8, 2016

Well hopefully it will solve the problem.

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