Blue Screen issue with nVidia cards?

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rennocneb

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Is there a blue screen issue with nvidia cards at the moment? i have seen mention of it in a few threads now. I ask because i have a new tri sli system and it has been blue screening on rare occassion. Normally while folding. I have plenty of power supply etc, so i was worried perhaps one of the cards had an issue, but if its a known driver bug then maybe thats whats causing it.
 
No blue screen issue other than when you have a problem.
Perhaps its related to to your Tri SLI setup, have you investigated it at all?
 
Not that many running tri-SLI. Have you recently updated your drivers? If not, you should. If you have, maybe it's a bug that's been introduced, wipe out your drivers and go back to your last known good version.

After the above, I'd say check your temps. Rivatuner or something. Overheating can often cause bluescreening, maybe one of the heat sinks is coming lose or a GPU/memory chip/voltage regulator has become defective.
 
id just read a lot of guys seem to be having blue screen issues. I went from a gtx 295 with no issue to a gtx 285 tri sli setup and it runs games great as well as 3dmark, ran furmark for an hour even though the primary gpu did hit 88C. Folding though runs fine for an hour or 2 and then blue screens in a nvidia dll file.
 
i really dont feel its heat, folding makes my gpus less hot than gaming, and 88C while hot is well within reason for these cards.
 
What's the error? Without that everyone will just be throwing out guesses, but it does sound like a heat issue so far.
 
rennocneb said:
i really dont feel its heat, folding makes my gpus less hot than gaming, and 88C while hot is well within reason for these cards.
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You can only see the core temp.
There are many other components that can overheat.
 
whats everyone doing to keep tri sli rigs cool, all my other cards stay within temp nicely my top board. The primary does get MUCH hotter and runs the fan harder. I assume maybe because heat rises from the other 2 cards, plus i know the primary in an sli setup works the hardest. Maybe it could have another issue? its an evga will pulling the heatsink void my stepup? or warranty? if not i might check that out. the other cards set in the 70's easily my primary is 20 degrees hotter at 100% fan where as the others are at 40-63%
 
Given that you are air cooling, more cool air is good.
 
iim in an antec 1200 with all the optional fans not sure i can get much more air. Im gonna try moving the primary card and see if the heat follows that card. If so perhaps a bad card? or heatsink issue?
 
Force the fans on all three 285s to 100% and see if you get the same BSOD.
 
the old nv4dsp.dll. i get them when i don't have a stable overclock on my cards, there's a heat issue, or i'm using an inadequate psu. like deadskull suggests, forcing the fans to 100% remedied the heat related issues i experienced.
 
With the latest drivers, I get a stupid nvlddmkm.sys BSOD sometimes. My games also hard-lock my entire computer sometimes.
 
thats the one not the nv4disp the other dll its the one thats crashing it happened on the 182.06 and the previous version. I just swapped the center card and the one that was on the top. The heat moved, previously the one that was on top was running much hotter, now the one in the center is running hotter but not insanely so. But the heat moved. im thinking perhaps i got a bad card?
 
The new top card is running 83C at 60% fan, while the one thats in the middle is running the same temp at 100% fan. Before when it was on the top it was hitting 95C at 100% according to gpu-z one thing why do i see two GPU temps per card?
 
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