Question Quick question about Intel's 13/14th gen dilemma ?

[Geoff Leven]

I have definitely experienced in the past many many crashes and errors due to the failure problems of these CPU's. But I also want to ask the question would the same problem be possibly causing nVidia drivers to fail installing?

Last time I tried to update to nVidia's latest driver - 556.12, it just would not install. It would have failed atleast a dozen times. So I tried to go back to the previous driver which also failed a number of times, until it finally didn't.

Updating to the Latest BIOS and applying some CPU settings in the BIOS has helped with the crashes. Crashes have been very few since, but those changes were already in place while I was drying to update the nVidia driver which failed so many times.

Anyone else have similar issues with nVidia drivers?

 

[Lutfij]

But I also want to ask the question would the same problem be possibly causing nVidia drivers to fail installing?
If you're not seeing the issue present itself on a donor platform with the same exact same specs or a similar system with your GPU dropped into it then it's possible. This is assuming the rest of your build is stable.

You might want to use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(Intel, AMD and Nvidia) in Safe Mode, then manually reinstall with the latest drivers sourced from Nvidia's support site in an elevated command.

 

[Geoff Leven]

But I also want to ask the question would the same problem be possibly causing nVidia drivers to fail installing?
If you're not seeing the issue present itself on a donor platform with the same exact same specs or a similar system with your GPU dropped into it then it's possible. This is assuming the rest of your build is stable.

You might want to use DDU to remove all GPU drivers(Intel, AMD and Nvidia) in Safe Mode, then manually reinstall with the latest drivers sourced from Nvidia's support site in an elevated command.

Elevated command? You mean safe mode, or something else?

 

[no1yak70]

I have definitely experienced in the past many many crashes and errors due to the failure problems of these CPU's. But I also want to ask the question would the same problem be possibly causing nVidia drivers to fail installing?

Last time I tried to update to nVidia's latest driver - 556.12, it just would not install. It would have failed atleast a dozen times. So I tried to go back to the previous driver which also failed a number of times, until it finally didn't.

Updating to the Latest BIOS and applying some CPU settings in the BIOS has helped with the crashes. Crashes have been very few since, but those changes were already in place while I was drying to update the nVidia driver which failed so many times.

Anyone else have similar issues with nVidia drivers?

This is a classic of core degradation. If your CPU is still under warrantee then RMA it.

 

[Geoff Leven]

This is a classic of core degradation. If your CPU is still under warrantee then RMA it.

Wow, thats really interesting, can you eleborate more?

 

[boju]

Elevated command? You mean safe mode, or something else?

Means as administrator by right clicking installer and running as administrator.

13th/14th can of worms is rather new, not sure if it's only i7/i9 k suffix skus are affected and what other problems may be caused by this. Graphics driver installation failure might not be related but who knows.

Can try address these issues with bios settings as you have done. Whether it's these settings or not in this post and associated links. Worth a look.

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[Geoff Leven]

Quick update, I've returned the CPU to the place of sale under warranty and swapped it for a 14900k. The store accepted it no questions asked. Will run the new CPU with stock settings with latest available BIOS until Gigabyte release another new BIOS that should be addressing the issue with its microcode update.

 

[CountMike]

Quick update, I've returned the CPU to the place of sale under warranty and swapped it for a 14900k. The store accepted it no questions asked. Will run the new CPU with stock settings with latest available BIOS until Gigabyte release another new BIOS that should be addressing the issue with its microcode update.

"stock settings" were part of the problem in first place and first indication for troubles so it would be wise to keep even lower limits (specially voltages and power) than stock until mess is resolved. It has plenty of computing power so even 20-30% performance reduction shouldn't be too visible.

 

[Gururu]

Let us know if you were able to install the nVidia drivers after update. It did sound like your old cpu was sensitive to the stock settings.

 

[Geoff Leven]

Well, yes I am able to install the latest driver now that I have a new CPU. I only hope that the CPU doesnt faulter by the time the new BIOS get rolled from vendors containing the microcode update from Intel. Will only be running intel basline settings nothing more. Fingers crossed.