Question Driver Troubles

[NuKe G0D]

GPU: ASUS GT1030 2gb
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (Gameboost OC 4.2ghz)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance (2 x 8gb) DDR4 C18 XMP 2.0 3600mhz (Auto oc to 4200mhz)
MOTHERBOARD: MSI Carbon Pro Max Gaming WiFi
Drive #1: Sabrent Rocket Q 1tb NVMe
Drive #2: Baracuda 2tb SATA hard drive
OS(s): Windows 10 Home Edition (Build # unavailable), Linux Mint 20.2

Card ran fine most of the year. One day, coincidentally a few days after cleaning, was playing forza 4 and artifacting appeared. Graphical issues slowly worsened until Windows would not show any screen image, only cursor. Chalked it down to ESD and went away until GPU market recovers. Came back a few weeks ago to see if theres anything I can do and I noticed BIOS showed an output, so there must be some salvaging I can do. Then I remembered I have linux installed on a partition. I booted into Linux and everything worked smoothly. I installed the Nvidia drivers and once again I ran into graphical errors. I managed to revert most of the Nvidia changes after following up a few forums and articles online. I can't run any games (crashing) without drivers, and that is all I really want to use the system for temporarily until the GPU market is stable again. Windows reinstall didn't work. I'm not sure where to find older drivers. Before Windows completely gave up on me I ran a few tests and GPU became unstable above ~95% memory usage. Runs fine on Xorg but obviously 3d rendering for any of my games is not happening without the nvidia drivers. Any advice appreciated!

BRIEF: Latest GPU drivers failing

 

[geofelt]

Suggest you remove cpu and ram oc and try again.

 

[NuKe G0D]

Suggest you remove cpu and ram oc and try again.

Forgot to say I tried that already 😅

 

[geofelt]

What did you clean? How?
Is there a connection?

Are you downloading the nvidia drivers directly from nvidia?
"helper" sites can have other agendas.

Is your psu of good quality?
Cheap units can cause strange issues.
Gaming, even on a gt1030 will increase psu demand.

 

[NuKe G0D]

What did you clean? How?
Is there a connection?

Are you downloading the nvidia drivers directly from nvidia?
"helper" sites can have other agendas.

Is your psu of good quality?
Cheap units can cause strange issues.
Gaming, even on a gt1030 will increase psu demand.

Yes I spent good money in a 400w modular psu from a trusted company so I wouldn't think it'd be a PSU issue.

I used the fan on a hairdryer (no heat) to blow the dust out of the system and off fans. Most say it shouldn't be an issue unless it was heated air and it went right up against the components so I dismissed that idea. I downloaded drivers on Windows from nvidia site, and from driver manager / nvidia site for the Linux system. Xorg is the only driver it is running on, no proprietaries. I am not too familiar with Linux though, moreso x, so I don't know how to troubleshoot it. I made sure all connections were fine, I tried only using one ram stick (I checked both). I checked cables and display. I'm assuming at this point it's just VRAM failure but I must 100% work through every solution I can to avoid wasting my time and money. The soonest I can get a new card is near the end of January and even then I can't guarantee it so it is of my best interests to get this gt1030 working again.

Also, after following some things online, I installed some xorg drivers via terminal, and now I can't get past Mint login screen. 😀

 

[USAFRet]

Yes I spent good money in a 400w modular psu from a trusted company so I wouldn't think it'd be a PSU issue.

Nothing is ruled out until proven 100% working.

So...what specific PSU is this?

 

[NuKe G0D]

Nothing is ruled out until proven 100% working.

So...what specific PSU is this?

KOLINK - Enclave Series KL-G600FM Modular ATX PSU - 600 W