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[Solved] Help please? PC randomly reset/restarting

Forum Overclocking : General Discussion [Solved] Help please? PC randomly reset/restarting

Best answer from arthurh.

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Hi Community,

I recently tried to see what I could push my GTX 580 up to and clocked it up to about 890 Mhz Core Clock at 1.1V. This was stable for 4-5 hours but then my PC reset and my settings were back to default. I assumed this was unstable so I brought the Voltage and Core Clock down about 0.3V and 50Mhz respectively. The problem continued to persist after about 2 hours of play on BF3. Not wanting to corrupt anything, I reset my settings to factory and continued on. The problem is, the resetting continues at seemingly random intervals. This has happened about 6 times in the last 2 days. Any ideas why this might be? My card never got over 70 C and runs idle at about 28 C.

i7-2600k

ASUS Direct CU II GTX 580

8 gb G. Skill 1600

P8P67 pro

Corsair HX750

Can anyone please help me?

gbrew345

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I hear bf3 has some issues regarding this as it is. Have you verified this at their forum? Is there some one here that can confirm this, I have not picked up bf3 yet. I have a few buds that are complaining about this, and one in fact that has the same issue you do.

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Its not only when playing BF3 that it restarts, even during idle sessions or internet browsing the computer will randomly reset.

Reply to gbrew345

Do you have your 2600k OCed?

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Reply to arthurh

no, its stable on normal. I reinstalled the drivers and it hasnt happened again yet so i think im safe.

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Sounds like you found your problem alright.

If you OC your GPU too much and it crashes it will usually corrupt the video drivers.

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Reply to arthurh

Your welcome but I think you solved your problem yourself my friend! :D

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Reply to arthurh

Hey I am having te same problems and I have relatively the same parts and having a hard time trying to find the drivers. Do you mind if you could send a link with the divers or if you dl off cd. Sorrg in relatively knew to this

Reply to Walters_56

donot oc your gpu to that extent where performance is compromised.

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