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Cuda drivers crashing!

gkanakis

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Has anyone else had this issue?

On my 4 - 9800GX2 system, if I don't reboot the system every two days the cuda drivers crash, usually on the third.
I have reinstalled the drivers many times. After a reinstall, it will go a couple weeks before the first crash.
Then a week, then down to every three days.
When I ran these in my sons room, as a heater, I had this issue.
Now I'm running them in my garage, 30 degree F, and I'm having the same issue.
I need to figure this out since I will be on a two week vacation at the end of April.
I will do a reinstall before I leave and hope it last the whole trip, but whould like to find a more permanant solution.
I thought I would have sold these already, but I guess there is no market for them.

I'm running the following:

MSI K9A2 Platinum
AMD Tri-core CPU
1GB of 800MHz ram
2 - EVGA 9800GX2
2 - XFX 9800GX2
40gb SATA HD
Windows XP 32 bit
PC Power and Cooling 750 Silencer
Thermaltake 650W VGA PSU

Average temps for cards were in the 80c range while in my house.
In the garage they stay in the 50c to low 60c range.
 
Which drivers are you using? I'm currently using 186.18 and mine run for weeks (if not months) without issus.

It looks like you only have a GB of RAM in that box. I wonder (just thinking out loud) if there might be a memory leak and you're just running out of RAM. Both of my rigs have at least 4 and the i7 has 6, but it is running Big Adv.
 
Never had this problem. I'm running 1GB of ram 4xevga in xp 32bit, 80C~85C just like you. I've run for months. My nvidia drivers are 6 months old.
Did you overclock the cards? Lower the core and memory a notch maybe.
Have you passed memtest on that stick?
:confused:
 
The newest drivers that were released from nVidia have been rather buggy. I think someone had an issue with this earlier.
 
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