Hi guys.
This card EVGA GTX 980ti GAMING SC2.0
Bought in 2016 with warranty ended on 26.02.2019
Used for 4K gamin since 2017
Problem first occurred on Saturday 25.01.20 while playing NFS Rivals on highest possible settings on two 4K displays (cloned).
PC specs (or look on the signature):
i7-3770k (not OC)
EVGA GTX 980ti GAMING SC2.0 (not OC)
4x4GB @2133 with XMP Profile
PSU SS-850AM
Display Dell P2715Q / 4K Philips TV
While gaming I'm getting this message on my connected display(s):
"The current input timing is not supported by the monitor display. Please change your input timing to 3840x2160@60 hz or any other monitor listed timing as per the monitor specifications."
The problem doesn't occur during boot, login or when I'm using the PC browsing or watching UHD movies, I tried. It can stay idle and nothing will happen for hours.
I'm using Diablo 3 /which I've spent a thousands hours on the highest settings never having a problem/ as stability test.
The GPU would turn off and crash even on a low resolution of 1920x1080 with Anti-Aliasing turned on (or off with a longer delay). It managed to crash even when I stayed in the menu for longer.
Initially I had "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. " critical warning in Event Viewer. Installing the latest NVIDIA drivers fixed that and I'm not getting this message again.
Now the Event Viewer has no critical system messages at all that can point out what exactly is happening and if the GPU is the main cause or just the victim.
*Sometimes I'm getting "Disk 2 has been removed" due to duplicated IDs message, disk2 in this case is my OS drive, but I don't think it will cause the video to stop.
When the display turns off and there's no picture the entire PC freezes, become irresponsible and sometimes even the reset/power buttons on the case doesn't react, something that tells me the problem may be related to the PSU instead.
CPU/GPU temps seems OK. In fact the GPU doesn't even reach higher usage or temps at the time it stops.
I tested the fans with MSI Afterburner etc, they are working when the card's temp go up.
I ran a Furmark stress test on GL 4.5 with 99,9% GPU usage and 78 degrees temp and it passed.
I ran a Tessmark x8 and it crashed in seconds (on Saturday). The test I did on Wednesday caused the GPU to produce strange noises such as blowing (whistling) or when a milk i about to boil in those special pots that start to whistle. The noise is not coming from the fans but the card itself, probably from some "chip" that is being fried..
I tested the card on Windows 10 with the latest nvidia drivers (my current config) - it crashed.
I tested it on another drive Windows 8 with nvidia drivers 381. or older - it crashed.
I tested removing most of the devices, peripherals, external drives etc. to exclude them as possible cause - the GPU crashed.
Under-clocked the GPU - it crashed.
I did a test with different display and DP/HDMI cable - it crashed.
I tried my integrated HD4000 with Diablo 3 that is hardly playable, at 100% usage for an hour there was no crash whatsoever.
Tomorrow I'm going to test it on another system, because I can't identify the problem in mine.
Any ideas? Tips on how to test where's the problem?
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Edit: I've updated a bit the description and title.
This card EVGA GTX 980ti GAMING SC2.0
Bought in 2016 with warranty ended on 26.02.2019
Used for 4K gamin since 2017
Problem first occurred on Saturday 25.01.20 while playing NFS Rivals on highest possible settings on two 4K displays (cloned).
PC specs (or look on the signature):
i7-3770k (not OC)
EVGA GTX 980ti GAMING SC2.0 (not OC)
4x4GB @2133 with XMP Profile
PSU SS-850AM
Display Dell P2715Q / 4K Philips TV
While gaming I'm getting this message on my connected display(s):
"The current input timing is not supported by the monitor display. Please change your input timing to 3840x2160@60 hz or any other monitor listed timing as per the monitor specifications."
The problem doesn't occur during boot, login or when I'm using the PC browsing or watching UHD movies, I tried. It can stay idle and nothing will happen for hours.
I'm using Diablo 3 /which I've spent a thousands hours on the highest settings never having a problem/ as stability test.
The GPU would turn off and crash even on a low resolution of 1920x1080 with Anti-Aliasing turned on (or off with a longer delay). It managed to crash even when I stayed in the menu for longer.
Initially I had "Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. " critical warning in Event Viewer. Installing the latest NVIDIA drivers fixed that and I'm not getting this message again.
Now the Event Viewer has no critical system messages at all that can point out what exactly is happening and if the GPU is the main cause or just the victim.
*Sometimes I'm getting "Disk 2 has been removed" due to duplicated IDs message, disk2 in this case is my OS drive, but I don't think it will cause the video to stop.
When the display turns off and there's no picture the entire PC freezes, become irresponsible and sometimes even the reset/power buttons on the case doesn't react, something that tells me the problem may be related to the PSU instead.
CPU/GPU temps seems OK. In fact the GPU doesn't even reach higher usage or temps at the time it stops.
I tested the fans with MSI Afterburner etc, they are working when the card's temp go up.
I ran a Furmark stress test on GL 4.5 with 99,9% GPU usage and 78 degrees temp and it passed.
I ran a Tessmark x8 and it crashed in seconds (on Saturday). The test I did on Wednesday caused the GPU to produce strange noises such as blowing (whistling) or when a milk i about to boil in those special pots that start to whistle. The noise is not coming from the fans but the card itself, probably from some "chip" that is being fried..
I tested the card on Windows 10 with the latest nvidia drivers (my current config) - it crashed.
I tested it on another drive Windows 8 with nvidia drivers 381. or older - it crashed.
I tested removing most of the devices, peripherals, external drives etc. to exclude them as possible cause - the GPU crashed.
Under-clocked the GPU - it crashed.
I did a test with different display and DP/HDMI cable - it crashed.
I tried my integrated HD4000 with Diablo 3 that is hardly playable, at 100% usage for an hour there was no crash whatsoever.
Tomorrow I'm going to test it on another system, because I can't identify the problem in mine.
Any ideas? Tips on how to test where's the problem?
Any help will be highly appreciated.
Edit: I've updated a bit the description and title.
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