Problem with default GPU frequency

[fnikol22]

Hello,
I recently bought used GTX 1080 Ti Gaming OC from Gigabyte. And my first experience wasn't too good - PC has shut down after a few seconds of gaming load. The first thing I though was that maybe it's broken (it's a used one after all), but then during the second attempt I saw the frequency (using HWInfo) - over 1900MHz. So I downloaded Xtreme Gaming Engine and changed the max. frequency. And it is a solution but not a satisfying one - as soon as I close this software the problem returns (GPU overclocks over 1900MHz again when under load), and also when in XGE if I hit the 'default' button it sets max. frequency extremely high again. How can I change that default frequency so that I don't need XGE or other software running to prevent extreme autooverclocking?

Update: Now I can't even force it to not overclock - XGE has max frequency set to 1657MHz but the card still goes all the way to 1911Mhz. Maybe some kind of BIOS reset would help? Anyone knows something about it?

 

[julienruc]

Try checking if drivers are properly updated. If yes, I suggest rolling-back and uodating drivers.

 

[norcalsc]

It supposed to boost when it can

 

[fnikol22]

I'm not really sure what worked but I tried reinstalling drivers, clean installing everything graphics related after using DDU, swapping power pins (it's probably not this - that was the first thing I did and I tested after that with a crash result), swapping PCIe port, using multiple OC software (in my case it was for underclocking ;p) - MSI Afterburner, XGE from Gigabyte etc. I also played a little with Nvidia NVFlash but I decided against reflashing BIOS as that might (I don't really know if it would) void my warranty. Now the system is stable. Good luck if you have a similar problem.