Need Help 1070 turning off when using PC

Kato1144

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This just started yesterday, but when im using my PC in the Desktop (watching youtube) the screen will blankout but the video will keep playing the card fans will go to 100% and nothing, can get the picture back, OS it still running can soft power down just fine.

so if i do a hard boot and get back in to the OS the drivers apper to work fine untill it "Crashes" again if i soft boot when i get back in to the OS the drivers are disabled.

I tired clean installing the drivers but this keeps happening i have googled my symptoms to come up empty handed, has any one heard of this happening before this is throwing me for a fricken loop.
 
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of course right after posting this i found this thread, i will see if i can get a fix with there solutions in the mean time if you have heard or experienced this please let me know what was done to fix it
 
bump the vram voltage a bit on the gpu. see if that helps.
I will keep that in mind if i have another crash but one of the users of the forum i linked suggested going in to msconfig and setting the number of CPU's in the boot section and it seems to be working
WINDOWS 10 INSTRUCTIONS
1. Right click the windows icon on lower left of screen, click Run
2. Type 'msconfig' without the apostrophes
3. Click the Boot tab, Advanced options
4. In the top left you will see "Number of Processors", put a check in that box and set your number of processors**
5. Restart your computer or shut it down and power back on. Enjoy a stress free PC gaming experience for the rest of your life.
 
never mind, it just crashed again..... this is really starting to tick me off :\
 
try the vram voltage and make sure all power saving/turn device off stuff is disabled. also, what os?
 
im running windows 10, i will have to look in to the power saving features also will try to bump up the vram voltage, btw how would i do that, i have MSI afterburner here and all i see is power limit increase
 
you might not be able to due just the vram, so try upping the power limit or core voltage if its available. also some setting might not be shown depending on which skin your using. is use the "default v3" skin.

edit correct skin name.
 
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also make sure your AB is up to date. and I have seen people talking of a voltage curve editor in ab but I cant figure out how to get to it, googling...
does ctrl+f open anything for you?
 
ya i have switched to the v3 skin and vram is not there only power limit and vcore and vcore is unavailable, so i increased the power limit to 110% and turned off the screen black out feature, it was really the only thing i had to change, the computer never goes to sleep.


also i updated AB and ctlr+f opened the voltage curve
 
in the voltage curve try to raise it so that the minimum is +.1v so .8v to .9v or whatever. from what ive been able to find there is no way to directly control the vram voltage any more. hopefully if you bunch the power limit a bit and up the voltage curve at the low end it wont blank out.
 
kk i will give that a try, just to update turning off the screen time out option in windows seems to be helping, i had 1 hour of no crashes before i shut it down.

i will update if it works or not, thanks for the help so far pendragon1
 
Another thing to try is disabling low power state for pcie in windows. Otherwise my only other suggestions would be power supply related or driver related since I had a similar issue like you are having with an old 8800gt. Drove me nuts til I swapped psu's and never had it happen again.
 
DDU those drivers and try newer or older ones. I had the problem on a set of drivers with a 970 and 760.
 
this poster is either full of crap or refuses to listen to the advice instead wanting to tell others what he will do.

Someone said "up the VRAM voltage" and the OP's response was "I'll keep that in mind" LOL
 
this poster is either full of crap or refuses to listen to the advice instead wanting to tell others what he will do.

Someone said "up the VRAM voltage" and the OP's response was "I'll keep that in mind" LOL

Well I'm not full of crap but I should have come back here sooner and updated you guys, since i have been here last i started a thread on the official Nvidia forums here I was going to update sooner but i had a crash after a long while of not crashing and i wanted to post that i got it figured but it did not happen, anyway as for upping the voltage it looks like afterburner might be part of the problem so for now I have it removed, I have been running a older driver now with nothing else installed "no hypervision,physix,GFE, ect) and it has been stable, there is more for me to do but I suffer from a injury to my spine so moving around and swapping PSU and testing RAM individually like the guy in the Nvidia thread suggested is going to have to wait till i get around to it and get help from others.

So in the mean time I'm going to work with Greybear on the Nvidia forum and once I get it solved I will post what I did to get it solved.

I will try to check up on here more often but i have many days were I'm just to medicated or in to much pain to do any serious trouble shooting so I tend to take my time right now, also the driver test I'm doing right now seems to be working, I'm heading over to the Nvidia forum now to update greybear.

FYI I'm running a clean DDU driver install version 387.92 and only the driver. I changed the PCI setting to gen2 (Set in the BIOS) the gen 3 setting might also be causing instability and so far so good, I will make a update here if i can get a month out of it or it crashes.
 
Also, if you are using display port, I believe there are some issues with newer monitors using 1.3 and 1.4 with NVidia cards.
 
Corsair RM 750 x, I have i second one I can swap with but since moving to the older driver and uninstalling Afterburner and such it seems to be stable so for now I'm not going to swap the PSU but if i get a crash for no reason in the next 3 weeks swapping the PSU is the first thing I will do.
 
If you guys are following my thread here you will see i had a period of it working and i thought i was home free but then today happened and I'm starting to think my card is defective but before i get ahead of my self let me quota my self

Well just had a seiers of crashes that were so bad it took me 7 tries to get in to safe mode, i uninstalled the drives with UDD restarted and then came straight here to compain, but then it crashes in safe mode 2 times when i was trying to write here so i said screw it and swapped in another RM 750x PSU i had laying around and then i would just get no picture on boot, nothing! so i was trying to get atleast one motor so i unplugged my main screen and booted with just my secondary and i got a picture, plugged my main screen in only and no picture on boot, so i removed the HDMI cable i had my main on used a DVI cable and then plugged my secondary HDMI in the mains old port and now I'm back in windows.

so now im thinking i had a bad HDMI cable and it would make sense, the crashes only startd happening after I installed the HDMI audio drivers so if there is a short in the HDMI sound line it might explain what im experiencing other than that if it is not a bad cable and it keeps happening on another PSU then there must be a hardware fault in the video card or MOBD this basically what i have it down to.

in the mean time i have another computer with a monitor with HDMI enabled sound so im going to try the cable there and see if i get crashes or corrupted audio, and in the mean time in going to reinstall the driver like before but no HDMI audio driver and see what happens

well thought i could get a solid confirmation with the HDMI cable in question but no, it works just fine with the HD6950, not issues, sound play just fine......


Maybe it is a issue with the HDMI connection on the back on this screen but i don't know....

in the mean time I'm going to leave the DVI connection on and hope for the best.... I need to get this solved damit!

Just want to add that the crashes are just picture loss with the OS still running in the back round and when it looses picture with the driers installed the fans ramp to 100% but after i removed the drives and had the 2 picture losses there the fan stayed normal (no ramp up)

also when i was struggling to get in to safe mode I was pounding on the keyboard between try 5 and 6 and got in to the windows 10 advanced boot options menu and i was making my way to launch safe mode from there if you can (im not sure) and i had picture loss there too when i was navigating the menu (no fan ramp here either)

Anyway i'm just telling you all this just incase it provides insite on to what im going thru, and BTW all crashes(picture losses) happened in windows usually when i was on chrome and doing other 2D stuff, this has never happened in a game or other 3D apps.


Well this whole proccess is starting to wear me thin so next time this happens i'm RMAing this PSO because im done with the crashes, done with the stress associated to the crashes, I have had this happen 3 times were i was doing something like writing a important document and it losses picture and I looses everything I was working on so I'm done, one more crash for no good reason and she is going back to ASUS


If you want more details on what i was doing prior to these post i would suggest going here and reading all the post (there is only 2 pages for now) but basically I was using the 1070 day one driver with nothing else installed (no phisx, 3D vision, GFE, HDMI audio driver or afterburner) and for over a month no issues but after installing phisx and the HDMI audio driver a few weeks ago i had one of the worst crashes ever, i would loss picture about 10-20 seconds after booting up, first thing i did was swap the PSU but still was having issues, I removed the driver with DDU and lost the picture 2 more times after and once in windows advanced boot menu, I did find that there might be a issue with the HDMI on my monitor, so maybe it is a bad connection and some times when the screen would rock it would cause issues and i just got lucky for 6 weeks but I'm not so sure

If you do crash again, try under clocking memory and core clock.
Now i know that sounds like a solid idea and it would be my go to step if the crashes happened when i was gaming but so far every crash has happened when the GPU was not loaded and was self under clocked (core 140MHz mem 202MHz) so if it is crashing at those speeds I'm not sure what under clocking would accomplish besides handicapping my 3D game play, if I'm looking at this the wrong way and there is merit to underclocking it I will install afterburner again and try it.

anyway at this point im certain it is not a power problem or a driver problem (due to the fact it kept having issues after completely removing the driver) so if it is not the HDMI connection on the back of the monitor and i loose picture again for no good reason I think im just going to RMA this card, by process of elimination it has to be the vid card or the MOBD PCI slot, and I'm done trying to figure this out.. so next picture loss I'm swapping in a HD6950 and sending this back to ASUS and if i have a issue with my working 6950 losing picture and stuff i guess its down to the MOBD (I have a b-350 laying around so i can swap) but these crashes when im web browsing or working on a word doc are wearing me thin as i almost am always doing something that i need to focus on and the picture loss just effs everything up.
 
Hey man same thing was happening to my card 1060 for a while, it died a little after i posted my thread asking for help on here (nvidia forum) Might be time for an RMA, Just a suggestion... good luck with your card.
 
I had the same exact thing happen with my 1080. I moved it to a different slot on the mother board, and reseated the power connections and the issue went away.
 
I had the same exact thing happen with my 1080. I moved it to a different slot on the mother board, and reseated the power connections and the issue went away.

worth a shot if it happens again
 
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