- Jan 23, 2018
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Yesterday i installed a new sound card and after installing the driver for it my GPU suddenly overheated and shut down. After this, it began behaving like this - when the voltage is less than ~1050mV all is normal, temperature's normal. Should the voltage increase beyond that point, the gpu begins to rapidly gain temperature, literally with speed = 5 celsiums per second, until reaching critical temp and shutting down. Should the voltage get back into safe zone before critical temp is reached, the card cools down to 42 celsiums real fast too, in just a few seconds. GPU model is GTX 970 and this never happened before, it used to work in around 1.2mV before and never went beyond 74 under pressure with my cooling system, and never did it ever get overheated with such insane speed. I don't think my PSU is damaged or can't power my system up, it has more than enough watts and it is of good quality, i installed it around a month ago and it worked like a charm. Disconnecting the new sound card didn't solve the problem, as well as uninstalling it's driver. Doing a clean reinstallation of video driver didn't help as well. I ran malware scan and my pc is clean. I have 0 clues what could suddenly start causing such abnormal behavior in my GPU power
management, please advise.
UPDATE: I have to mention that my new sound cards is connected to a PCEe x1 port, but since that port is right under the gpu body, i use a wire to get there. When i previously tried to disconnect the card, i took the wire out from the card, not from the port on the motherboard, and back then it did't change anything. But right now i tried disconnecting the wire from the motherboard, and surprisingly after this the problem with the GPU got fixed. I don't understand how this is possible, but it is what happened. I still need to connect the sound card though, and this is the only port. Could the issue be with my motherboard?
management, please advise.
UPDATE: I have to mention that my new sound cards is connected to a PCEe x1 port, but since that port is right under the gpu body, i use a wire to get there. When i previously tried to disconnect the card, i took the wire out from the card, not from the port on the motherboard, and back then it did't change anything. But right now i tried disconnecting the wire from the motherboard, and surprisingly after this the problem with the GPU got fixed. I don't understand how this is possible, but it is what happened. I still need to connect the sound card though, and this is the only port. Could the issue be with my motherboard?
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