Flash GPU crash
8 Dec 2016 8:22:13 UTC
Topic 203523
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So I was torturing my poor GTX 650. Movie on one screen, working on the second, and running 2 BRP4.
Both screens go black. I lose sound, but the computer keeps humming. 5 second later, the screens sputter back to life, along with the sound. GPUZ shows the speed cratered from ~1058 mhz to about 200. Both BRP4 are errored out. Oddly enough, its been running as cold as it has in 6mo with the onset of winter. 60c instead of 80c over the summer.
Dying GPU? Random bug? No driver changes.
Those are normal symptoms of
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Those are normal symptoms of Nvidia driver crashing. Clocks should be normal after a reboot.
If this continues to happen
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If this continues to happen you should consider lowering clock rates. While this is especially true if you are knowingly overclocking, on some cards with some loads it can save the day even though you are running at stock clocks.
Also, on some cards some of the time even rebooting sometimes does not recover the clocks to normal rate. Good luck.
My GPUs (both Nvidia and AMD)
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My GPUs (both Nvidia and AMD) from various manufacturers die within 2 1/2 years. They can even run cold, and I never overclock myself, and usually buy cards with minimal factory overclocking. Your card may still be good; the drivers are a good idea, but it won't last forever.
Clock actually came back on
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Clock actually came back on its own, before a restart.
Got it in December 2012. I guess pushing 4 years of near continuous gpu usage is pretty good.
I think I need to stretch it out another year though. Next box is going to run an Oculus and that is going to mean replacing everything except the hard drives. (I'll use those as main storage and backup for the future ssd.) I'm going to need a giant case while I'm at it.