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Thanks. Maybe I'll try my luck with a Gigibyte and see what happens.

I won't have any issues returning the card. I bought it at MicroCenter in Mpls. MN and that place is awesome :) I'm just trying to figure out if it's a bug with my card and if I get another of the same type will I have the same issue.

Thanks all. No, still running Windows 7; I've been too afraid to upgrade to Windows 10. Is that recommended? Just to clarify, is this power instability bug inherent to all GTX 970s? Or if I swap this card for another one do I stand a decent chance of getting a card with no issues...

OK thanks. So it seems like this may be a fairly common issue for this card, but not necessarily an issue with every single card. Perhaps I should just swap it for another 970 and hope the next one does not have this issue?

OK, thank you. I'm not sophisticated enough with this hardware to jump right in and change a setting like that. Could you dumb it down just a little on how to do this? Would I do this through MSI AB? I do see a Force Constant Voltage setting there.Otherwise, I don't see a way to access the...

Hello, I bought a new Geforce GTX 970 and it crashes in all games. I've posted this in video cards and there looks to be some consensus that it's a power management issue between my board and motherboard. I've installed the newest firmware for my ASUS P8P67 Deluxe (rev. 3.0) motherboard...

How do I find a modded bios? I have an ASUS P8P67 Deluxe (rev. 3.0) motherboard. I just flashed it all the way up to the most recent firmware and it's still crashing.

ASUS is telling me I need I PCI 3.0 and I only have PCI 2.0. Does that make any sense?

I've got MSI AB installed. I've looked around, but I can't find how to downclock. Please let me know, thanks.

It's not just Company Heroes, it's any game. CoH lasts about 5-10 minutes until crash, other, more intensive games crash faster. Taking Power Management off of Maximum didn't help either. :(

I tried DDU and then reinstall minimal components; driver and Physix only. It's an ASUS card and it is factory overclocked. It's strange that a Furmark stress test won't reveal the power issue, but this CoH game can't run for more than 5 minutes. I'm trying the power management suggestion...

Ugh. Well, I can run Furmark and stress the card out for 10 minutes and no crash. But if I play Company of Heroes for 5 minutes it crashes. If it is the power issue, are there any other solutions or do I need to return the card for something different? Perhaps different BIOS settings? Thanks.

Thank you. It's just a black-screen, no errors, then the computer reboots. My event log shows Event 41, Kernel-Power. I've tried playing 5 times and it looks like the same event for every crash. I am using the most current driver.

I just got rid of my Crossfire cards and installed a new GTX 970 and it cannot get through 5-10 minutes of Company of Heroes without crashing. - I have the most recent GPU drivers - Game is updated - Previous cards did not crash - Uninstalled and cleaned out old video drivers - Ran all...

Thanks. None of the other trouble shooting steps Bose gave me worked. So now I'm convinced that yes, I need to use the audio output of the actual sound card and line that into the aux input on the pod. Since the sound card does all the processing, I'm not sure why I thought I'd get the 5.1...

It worked with my previous system. The surround sound effect was good, but the system was so old that the amp was going out. Bose is suppose to be very goof at digital surround sound.

I recently purchased and installed the Bose Companion 5 speaker systems. I was a little surprised to find that it's a simple USB connection to the computer. This means there is no way to use my soundcard to drive the system. For music, the new system sounds phenomenal. However, for...

Thanks 450.

I have not upgraded my sound system for my computer set-ups for the past 10 years at least, so I am totally out of the loop on this stuff. My current sound system is failing and it's time for an upgrade. I've done some research and I'm leaning towards the Bose Companion® 5 multimedia speaker...

When playing any video game my system will crash if a video plays in the background through any browser. Sometimes the application will crash, sometimes I'll get the BSOD. It doesn't matter what game I am playing or what browser is playing a video. AMD HD 6900 x2 Windows 7 Thanks in...

I've got an older Alienware computer that suddenly went to hell performance-wise. It can barely run any game and in fact hangs up when just opening a browser or any other windows program. It's Vista and I've tried many troubleshooting ideas such as: scandisk, chkdsk, defrag, disk-clean up...

Budget is not a concern. The standary warranty options are find for me as most builders offer similar options. I do like the quiet water-cooled machines, but I also want reliability in those cooling systems as well. I have an older Alienware that is water-cooled and it's loud as hell...

I have had great advice from the site on building computers in the past. For my next PC, I might go the easier and more expensive route with a pre-made computer. Who's the best around? I've had Alienware in the past and I know of Falcon Northwest. My goal would be a quiet, cool-running...

Thanks, she does have a tablet, but wants more functionality, larger screen etc.

Hi all, I've never owned a laptop and know very little about brands, features, reliability, etc. But I have learned that my wife wants one. So, she would use it for Skype (need a camera/mic), surfing, movies (Netflix, HBO, on Demand), etc. Nothing too demanding. It would be on my wireless...

I've got a high quality surge protector, but haven't thought about a UPS. I might have to try that. I don't think have a router last more that 2-3 years max. However, I don't have any other electrics that fry that frequently. Thanks.

Hi All, I've gone through the router recommendation thread and Tom's Hardware. I'm no expert, but I'm thinking about getting the NETGEAR - N900 Wireless-N Dual Band Router with 4-port Gigabit Switch and 2 USB Ports. My current router died and is a predecessor of the above router. It...

Thanks for the input and help folks. I had a friend open up the rig and it turns out the power connection for one of the video cards was loose. It caused the card to disappear as a device and also caused the fan to run at full rpm for some reason. Power reconnected and all is well. Very...

Thanks, I must have over-looked those. So those would be the hot-swapable ports right? In BIOS I see 6 SATA ports by color code. For Micron and Marvell I only have the ability to enable or disable the entire controller. If I do swap my boot SSD to a different port, will BIOS have any...

I have the Asus P8P67 Deluxe mobo. It has a standard 3gb Intel SATA controller, a 6gb Marvell controller and I think it also has a Micron Technologies controller. So anyhoo... I've been trying to take advantage of the 6gb Marvell controller by putting my 6gb Crucial SSD on it. My assumption...

They are close together, but my case is a pretty darn good cooler. One ran at 70C and the other about 65C under absolute stressful conditions. I also did not over-clock in any way. Haha! Oops... I meant Xfire :) I'll report back on the results after this weekend hopefully. I'm in a...

I've got two 6970s in SLI. Today when playing a game, I crashed to blue-screen and at the same time the fan on one of the 6970s went to max rpm. When I came back from the crash, I noticed that I could no longer see one of the 6970s in the device manager. And the fan on the missing card is...

I've gotten great service out of my Klipsch promedia 4.1 speakers, 7 or so years I would guess. But now the left-rear speaker seems to be dead, the volume control is very static'y and I have to fiddle with it to get both front speakers to come on at the same level. I'm interested in...

ah yes. I've reinstalled Malware and I've reinstalled Microsoft Security Essentials and my DPC latency is very low still.... as long as I keep something in my Optical Drive :) This weekend, I will switch around the SATA port and see if that does the trick. If not, I'll like at the firmware...

Thanks. So, is there a solultion to this other than leaving a DVD in the opitcal drive? You make it sound like this is just the way it is, but I could be reading it wrong.

Well, I uninstalled the AISuite and that didn't make a difference. HOWEVER, on another thread where I was looking for ideas on specifically the latency issue, someone recommend that I keep a disc in the optical drive at all times. And you know what, it actually worked!! And my resolving that...

Well, I uninstalled the AISuite and that didn't make a difference. HOWEVER, on another thread where I was looking for ideas on specifically the latency issue, someone recommend that I keep a disc in the optical drive at all times. And you know what, it actually worked!! And my resolving that...

Ya know..... I've been reading up on the Marvell controller and what its intended purpose is. It appears that it is designed to make a SSD and a HDD work together as one drive. This was not my intent with my system where I was satisfied with the C300 being my primary drive (Windows + some...

Well, I don't have freeze issues luckily but I do have extremely high DPC latency which has been hard for me to track down. A lag monitor program seems to indicate that a SCSI Port driver is experiencing tons of conflicts. Is this due to the C300 configuration or to the way I used my SATA...

I tried booting in Safe Mode with Networking. The latency was gone. I still can't figure out a fix though.