Rendering in Vegas - Interesting Reboots (3770k 20% OC)

[robert123456]

System changed from GTX680 to GTX980. Drivers are shit (especially with Witcher 3) but the card is amazing. Ran "Heaven" repeatedly, no problems, it is improbable there are any faults with the hardware (it's a reference card).

PSU is Corsair TX650M. More than enough?

Rendering in Vegas Pro 13. Environment has not changed for weeks now, but today it decides to reboot halfway through rendering. "Ok, see if it replicates exactly." Run games and rendered again. Check voltages, values are fine, package is drawing no more than about 50w, temps are 60c, 12v is 12.288, 3v is 3.376. There is nothing wrong with the system, nor voltages, nor power draw.

Reboots again:

Event ID 41 - Kernel-Power - Level Critical

For some reason, today my system decides to have some fun and pick on me. I have always run stable OCs, and systems will never fail. So I revert the OC to default values. Render again and it runs fine. I use different render settings though, and I change a value in the "Nvidia Control Panel" being PhysX settings to "Auto" instead of "CPU."

I don't understand exactly what happened. I am far from new building computers, but I have no clue why it ran fine for 2 years with the old card and 2 weeks with the new card, then suddenly this happens. I know for a fact current 980 drivers are awful in more complex environments (i.e. running different browsers, an old soundcard, uncommon applications etc) so I suspect that is the problem.

 

[azca]

please try running a good system stress test like OCCT and run all 4 tests for at least 5 minutes; if something is unstable, your pc should freeze/crash under OCCT

if the video card is only change, then it's very likely your 980; do you still have the old 680 card to try or any AMD cards? you can also try running iGPU only if you have one in your cpu

 

[robert123456]

Hi azca,

Ran OCCT (had forgotten about that) and all tests ran flawlessly. Here are some screens:

http://imgur.com/a/OfWDo

I have actually no idea what it could be. Maybe it was a previous setting, or there is a driver conflict. I do have my old 680, yeah. But Heaven Benchmark, OCCT, GPUz and Sandra show there is nothing at all wrong with the card. So only the possibility of a software problem remains.

Any other ideas let me know.

 

[azca]

try running the render with 680 and see if it works without any issues

 

[robert123456]

Ok, posting so you can have a laugh. Checked the kettle lead and the extension socket wasn't inserted properly. Every time my foot touched the lead it moved and the system rebooted.

"Tech specialists." *facepalm*

 

[azca]

^nice