The_Lanbone
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I've been having some weird issues related to my Asus 770 4gb dcii recently, and I'm a bit stumped as to where to go next. I'll try to keep the backstory and details brief -
A few months ago I upgraded to an h100i from an air cooled 4.3Ghz OC on my 2600k. I updated my msi z68a-gd55 bios in search of better overclocks and better voltage control. (Still no voltage offset options!) Long story short I made an emergency recovery to a pre-Ivy Bridge bios after what I thought was a dead board.
I am now at a point where I consider my new OC stable at 4.4Ghz. It passes 30 mins of prime95, Aida64, occt, and ITB on high.
My problems start when I try to run any gpu heavy tests (3dmark 11 & firestrike). I am running 3x 24" monitors, but not in surround. I have a 32" LG TV running off the onboard HDMI. During the benchmark it seems like the nvidia driver crashes and the system freezes - the middle monitor flashes to a gray screen, the 2 side monitors go black, and the TV loses connection. The system never recovers from this, and when I reboot I am greeted with a message saying there was a memory change and to press F1 to go to setup or F2 to load defaults.
Here's what I've tried so far:
Verify all mobo drivers are current
Cleared cmos and replaced battery
Run 2 x 24hr memtest (no errors)
Roll back nvidia driver to previously installed (clean install option)
Rolled back to an older 334.xx driver (after running driver sweeper)
Is this a gpu issue, or could there be something else at play? I'm not sure what else to try, besides wiping the ssd and doing a fresh install of windows 7. I'm not sure what else to try, so I'm looking for any advice or ideas!
A few months ago I upgraded to an h100i from an air cooled 4.3Ghz OC on my 2600k. I updated my msi z68a-gd55 bios in search of better overclocks and better voltage control. (Still no voltage offset options!) Long story short I made an emergency recovery to a pre-Ivy Bridge bios after what I thought was a dead board.
I am now at a point where I consider my new OC stable at 4.4Ghz. It passes 30 mins of prime95, Aida64, occt, and ITB on high.
My problems start when I try to run any gpu heavy tests (3dmark 11 & firestrike). I am running 3x 24" monitors, but not in surround. I have a 32" LG TV running off the onboard HDMI. During the benchmark it seems like the nvidia driver crashes and the system freezes - the middle monitor flashes to a gray screen, the 2 side monitors go black, and the TV loses connection. The system never recovers from this, and when I reboot I am greeted with a message saying there was a memory change and to press F1 to go to setup or F2 to load defaults.
Here's what I've tried so far:
Verify all mobo drivers are current
Cleared cmos and replaced battery
Run 2 x 24hr memtest (no errors)
Roll back nvidia driver to previously installed (clean install option)
Rolled back to an older 334.xx driver (after running driver sweeper)
Is this a gpu issue, or could there be something else at play? I'm not sure what else to try, besides wiping the ssd and doing a fresh install of windows 7. I'm not sure what else to try, so I'm looking for any advice or ideas!