- Mar 24, 2014
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I just got this thing yesterday and things went well all day. I start up the PC today and games will randomly crash, sometimes with artifacts on screen and sometimes with just a solid colors I have to do a hard reset at that point. I have tried several different drivers all resulting in the same problem. The card went through benchmarking fine. There doesn't seem to be a heat issue. I'm using an 850w power supply, i5-4670 processor and an ASRock z87 Extreme4 mobo. I am using Win 7 64-bit. The PC is not new, was running dual 780's in SLI before the upgrade and all was well.
Is there any way for me to narrow down what the issue is?
UPDATE:
I reinstalled the card and installed the latest Asus drivers. I was able to play for about 5 hours before it crashed forcing a hard reset. I then installed the latest drivers from nVidia Experience (new than the ones from Asus) and gamed for 7 hours with no problems. I was watching the GPU
and CPU temps with RealTempGT, the CPU cores never got above 70 and the GPU never got above 65.
I went to bed and booted up the system and was able to play for about 5 minutes before it crashed again but this time I was able to log out and back into Windows. Once back in the Asus GPU TweakII software would not load. It gave me the error "Laod Vender.dll Fail. Please intall VGA driver. Device manager sees the card and the driver.
This is exactly what happened last time. I installed the card and everything seemed fine for hours until I went to bed and got up the next day.
Here are the event logs from the crash:
Level: Error
Source: nvlddmkm
The following information was included with the event:
\Device\Video7
1be7(335c) 00000000 00000000
Level: Warning
Driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully
recovered.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE 2:
I've received and LED code from my mobo a few times during some of the more recent crashes. The code is 'b2' Legacy option ROM initialization. I've gotten artifacts on screen before windows even loads, so whatever the problem is, its at a pretty base level. I have flashed the most recent BIOS for my mobo, I did not see an update for the card itself.
Is there any way for me to narrow down what the issue is?
UPDATE:
I reinstalled the card and installed the latest Asus drivers. I was able to play for about 5 hours before it crashed forcing a hard reset. I then installed the latest drivers from nVidia Experience (new than the ones from Asus) and gamed for 7 hours with no problems. I was watching the GPU
and CPU temps with RealTempGT, the CPU cores never got above 70 and the GPU never got above 65.
I went to bed and booted up the system and was able to play for about 5 minutes before it crashed again but this time I was able to log out and back into Windows. Once back in the Asus GPU TweakII software would not load. It gave me the error "Laod Vender.dll Fail. Please intall VGA driver. Device manager sees the card and the driver.
This is exactly what happened last time. I installed the card and everything seemed fine for hours until I went to bed and got up the next day.
Here are the event logs from the crash:
Level: Error
Source: nvlddmkm
The following information was included with the event:
\Device\Video7
1be7(335c) 00000000 00000000
Level: Warning
Driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully
recovered.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
UPDATE 2:
I've received and LED code from my mobo a few times during some of the more recent crashes. The code is 'b2' Legacy option ROM initialization. I've gotten artifacts on screen before windows even loads, so whatever the problem is, its at a pretty base level. I have flashed the most recent BIOS for my mobo, I did not see an update for the card itself.
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