nVidia Crashing

[friznit]

I had this on my old 285, and since upgrading to a 670 it's started happening again. Every now and then, seemingly at random the graphics card stops responding - screen freeze for anything from 3 to 10 second, followed by blackscreen for up to 30s. It happens on a number of different games, so it's not what I'm playing. There's a bajillion posts about other people having similar problems so I'm disinclined to blame hardware, unless nvidia quality control is terrible. I've updated drivers 3 times and going to try once more, but then going to fuck nvidia up the arse forever more and buy crayons to draw the pictures.

Anyone else any experience/solutions/ideas?

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Update drivers for everything, I'd guess it's motherboard related, flash your bios, maybe reset to defaults too.

And do memtest, there's not a lot of reason, but fucked Ram shows up in all kinds of odd ways.

[Dog Pants]

Odd, mine was doing something similar; screen freeze for a couple of seconds, then black for a couple of seconds, then came back reporting that the graphics drivers had a wobbly then were fixed. Happened half a dozen or so times tonight then I got a BSOD. After the reboot it's been fine, I was assuming heat (so hosed it with an air can).

[FatherJack]

Anyone else any experience/solutions/ideas?

Does it have an LED on the back? I had this with my 280, the normally-green LED would turn orange or red at the times it blacked out. My power supply was on the way out, but I ended up replacing the card as well as I was due an upgrade.

[TezzRexx]

Slightly odd question but... do you have an SSD installed?

[friznit]

Negative to both of the above. I'm inclined to think it was a driver issue - that there are several hundreds of other people complaining of similar issues means it's unlikely to be entirely due to something unrelated to the card.

I installed the latest drivers today (4th set since it started happening) and so far (fingers crossed) have had no re occurrence.

[buzzmong]

The obvious question is thus:

Have you tried jam?

[friznit]

Tried 5punk. Could be why the fan is jamming up.

[friznit]

Thought I'd mention that since updating the latest drivers this issue has finally stopped reoccurring. Apparently it's taked nVidia about 2 years and half a dozen updates to even admit it was a problem and then finally fix it.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Thought I'd mention that since updating the latest drivers this issue has finally stopped reoccurring. Apparently it's taked nVidia about 2 years and half a dozen updates to even admit it was a problem and then finally fix it.

Apparently it's taked nVidia about 2 years and half a dozen updates to even admit it was a problem and then finally fix it.

taked

[friznit]

I am fixing English unregular grammar word by word. You will conform.

[Dog Pants]

Doubleplus good.

[TezzRexx]

you're A BAD SPALLER LOL

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Edit: lolz at the autocorrect