Question The graphics card resets frequencies and does not pick them up again ?

[chelique]

After exiting the browser or, for example, Discord, the graphics card once resets the frequencies of its core, shaders and memory to extremely low (minimum working as far as I understand) and does not raise them to normal again. Cured by rebooting the computer (after that it works at maximum again until I do not start and close such programs). After exiting a game, for example, the frequencies do not go down. This problem appeared after switching from Windows 7 (x64) to Windows 10 (x64). On Windows 7 this did not happen.

I noticed that sometimes strange white squares appear when visiting Youtube, and that when I hover my mouse over the "store", "library" or "community" tabs in Steam, a list of sub-tabs appears, as it should be, but disappears in a moment. With all that said, I haven't seen any artifacts or crashes from games.

I am using MSI Afterburner (4.6.4) + RivaTuner (7.3.3). Operating frequencies: core clock: 970 MHz; memory clock: 2100 Mhz (memory overclocked by +50 Mhz). They reset to: core clock: 405 Mhz; memory clock: 324 Mhz. Temperature at normal frequencies and max load in games does not rise above 65 degrees.

Graphics card: GTX 550 Ti (GIGABYTE WindForce 2X). Driver version: 391.35 (the latest for this graphics card).
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro (version 21H2).

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

This problem appeared after switching from Windows 7 (x64) to Windows 10 (x64).
Did you upgrade from the older OS to the new? If so, did you reinstall the OS afresh? If not an upgrade, from the older OS, where did you source the installer for said OS?

Might want to list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:

 

[chelique]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

This problem appeared after switching from Windows 7 (x64) to Windows 10 (x64).
Did you upgrade from the older OS to the new? If so, did you reinstall the OS afresh? If not an upgrade, from the older OS, where did you source the installer for said OS?

Might want to list the specs to your build like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:

Did you upgrade from the older OS to the new? If so, did you reinstall the OS afresh? If not an upgrade, from the older OS, where did you source the installer for said OS?
I downloaded an image of Windows 10 from the internet and burned it to a flash drive, then installed it on the SSD as usual.

CPU: Xeon E5405
Motherboard: Asus P5G41T-M LX2/GB
Ram: Patriot PSD34G16002 (4GB 1600 MHz DDR3) + Patriot PSD32G13332 (2GB 1333 MHz DDR3)
SSD/HDD: SanDisk Ultra II 240GB
GPU: GTX 550 Ti (GIGABYTE WindForce 2X)
PSU: FSP ATX-400PNR
Chassis: I can't identify it, but it does the job (CPU's temperature doesn't rise more than 80 celcius at full workload)