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Help With video Card

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NFarnzy

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I have had this ongoing issue with my video card now for months. I will get the TDR"s and when I reseat the video card, it will be good again for a few days. I have reinstalled
drivers and that has not helped. I am trying the newest set. the 285.27 beta's. I was on the 266.66 they had seemed to be the best. I have had to return the original Palit Gtx 560 Ti card and got a replacement but no luck on that one either. It is doing the same things to me. I have also tried out the Evga and it also is doing the same things. I have tried a new MB and it still the same issue. The
original Gigabyte UD4 is in its box now. thinking there is really nothing wrong with it. I have a Asus Sabertooth p67. bios vers 1606. I have tested out my gskill memory and there has been no errors with it. I have been using a Corsair SSD 90gb Force Series with firmware vers 2.0. Health Status is at 100% . I have a Creative Titanium HD Sound Card .. I have also pulled that out for a while to see if I still get the same errors and I do. I have my CPU clocked at 4.4ghz @ 1.34volts and my memory volts is at 1.57v. I have made sure that it is stable by running IBT ( Intel Burn Test) I have ran many of tests and have not had any errors. Video card runs at about 55-60c tops. has not crossed that when I am running a game. my CPU tops at about 50c at most. I have the i2600k @ 1.34volts. I have also tested out my PSU and it is also good. I have a Seasonic X650 w gold.

If anyone has anything that maybe I have looked over . please let me know. This is an ongoing issue and I have not found anything that will fix it. I am also gonna send the current Palit Gtx 560 Ti back.. getting an RMA for it .. I am tired of having a buggy system. I am using a Evga 560 Ti 1gb Card now. It was also having issues from before but is gonna see if it still has the same issue now with the newest nvidia drivers. if it does. I will be sending it back for a replacement soon!
 
I would try two things. 1)Upping the GPU voltage by a notch or two via a program like MSI Afterburner and 2) lowering the CPU overclock to stock to see if the overclock is causing the issue.
 
I have not seen a TDR since I rolled back to 266.66 drivers. I had two machines running Nvidia cards that would get the 'driver has stopped responding and will be restarted' glitch pretty regularly. One is using a 560ti and the other is a 460. It only happens while browsing webpages, not while gaming. I'm almost convinced it is a bug between newer Nvidia drivers and Adobe Flash in webpages - but I won't swear by that, since I like to blame EVERYTHING that goes wrong on Flash ;)

But seriously - try rolling back to older drivers - you are limited in that the 560ti only has a few drivers that officially support it (it is still relatively new). 266.66 appears to be the oldest, but IIRC there is one or two of the later 250 series that may work as well.
 
I have tried all the drivers .. the 266, the 270 the 275's.. I didnt like the 280.. I am now trying the 285 beta's.. and I am going to return the Palit gtx 560 Ti and get an RMA for it. I am using an Evga that was doing the same thing, but gonna see what it does and how it reacts.. The temps I have always kept in check. I have also upp'd the volts as well to see that helps but still get the same ongoing issue.
 
I thought I read somewhere that if you upgrade to the new release candidate of Adobe Flash that it solves the nvidia tdr issue.

In fact I think I read it on this forum, it was written by Tamlin from wsgf.
 
I've been having similar problems with my EVGA GTX 570 HD, it happens in games sometimes. BFBC2 will turn white for example. Often lately during web browsing and videos, on several browsers too. I'm on Win7 64bit.

Adobe's site doesn't show any current release candidate, last one was in May from what I can tell.
*EDIT* I found the Flash 11 release candidate, installed for both Firefox and and IE...still did not fix my problems though. Here's the link:
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11.html

EVGA tells me it's likely an issue with the NVidia HD audio chip and my own sound driver(s). I'll post the link to their fix, but it has not worked for me. I also played with my RAM timings and voltage by going very conservative, but I don't overclock anyway. I don't use onboard sound so my next attempt will be to remove those Realtek drivers I guess.

If you go way back in the NVidia drivers, you might be using ones without HD audio drivers and that may be why it works for you.

I want a real fix and I'm still trying. I hope someone can figure it out. Here's EVGA's attempt:

http://www.evga.com/support/faq/afmmain.aspx?faqid=59211
 
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My TDR problem has been gradually getting more and more frustrating to the point where I've promised myself never to make fun of ATI drivers again. Tried several different roll backs (even omega drivers) as well as the current beta drivers. Nothing has helped :[ I heard the next driver release is supposed to "fix it"... well, if it doesn't, I'm going over to the dark side.
 
Was it the TDR issue you could abate by increasing the voltage, or am I thinking of something else?
 
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