OC settings

Hi Aka,

Your OC settings should be saved in the Bios. Did you try to load them? The default is no OC and if you have another option saved, that will be your OC.

Frank

You can leave speedstep enabled. What it does is it leaves your PC at an "un-overclocked" speed, and when it detects any "stress", it will turn on the actual OC speed.

For me, my cpu stays underclocked, and only jumps up when I start "stressing" the computer. But at 1.36v, you are good to go even without speedstep.

yesterday was gaming all day, and today went to turn on the pc and it seemed like it was stuck in the post screen or w/e were all i seen was the dash blinking upper left of the screen. so i reset the pc thn it went to a black and white boot screen i guess it was,asking me if i wanted to boot into windows 7. idk its never done this b4 kinda got me worried.
seemed to go away atm ne ways, everything seems to b good. any1 know wat could of been the cause of tht? i did reset the system to the original OC settings a few days ago, (tht DS gave me) and been gaming pretty heavy on it w/ out problems so dont think thts the reason.
 thought id share tht to see wat the forum gods have to say about it..any-who thnx in advance

ok so u think i should run linux? give me the proper settings for linux plz if u could cuz wen i run it doesnt seem to stress the cpu all tht much, i have the x64 edition. if i remember correctly from a previous post some1 said to put it on a certain setting i cant remember exactly. wat i do is just hit the all tab, thn run- i know there is something im missing.

thnx for the response

kinda hard to think its the OC, since ive been gaming and such, but idk, could it be a program i installed or something along those lines?


Edited by Aka - 23 Sep 2012 at 12:00pm

I would recommend using AIDA64, it tests your system to real world usage. A system that passes Prime95 or LinX can still have stability issues. Or, a system that is Prime95 and LinX stable could be unstable with general use still.

i dl'd aida, nice program, how it exactly works idk lol do u just run it? i see it stresses the cpu pretty good, and also the gpu's. do i run it for a certain amount of time alone or..and does it just stop running wen it finds instability or..some feedback would b great thnx 

sadly the crashes started happening again, with whocrashed i was able to find the culprit  nvlddmkm.sys.

i recently updated the driver to the most recent one after this happened w/ the previous driver aswell, clean instal used driver sweeper also to get rid of everything to see if tht would help installed the newer driver w/ same result...so i dont think its a driver issue. my OC is the OC DS did, temps seem fine wen running benchmarks, furmark, heaven and even aida64, so system seems stable.... im only getting this wen gaming mainly swtor.

was also curious about why i see tht my memory is listed as 1333 instead of 1600 under the megetrend boot screen, prior to me updating my bios it was listed as 1600..i had restored the original OC settings tht the pc came with from an email DS sent me all the mem timings seem to be correct so idk if this is an issue i should be concerned about figured id throw it out there.

any feedback would be great, thnx in advance


Edited by Aka - 12 Oct 2012 at 8:38pm

ok tyvm alex...been gaming all day today w/ no issues got rid of some programs i didn't need/use tht i DL'd recently thinking maybe it was a program or another driver issue causing the hangup, done some research and razer peripherals could be the cause of these issues from what i read...where my keyboard would go out in the middle of a game where i would hear the ding sound like it was being plugged back in and being recognized from windows so i uninstalled those drivers and it seemed to fix the problem atm keeping my fingers crossed of course 

but to the question regarding my memory as its listed as 1333 instead of 1600 under the megatrends boot up screen could u explain to me the reason for this? could it be wrong timings for the memory or...just confusing being tht all the timings and everything else is correct based on the OC settings tht where sent to me by email

but if this occurs again i will reset the OC to stock settings and ill post again to let u know thnx a bunch for the response

sweet ill give tht a shot thn..ya tht makes sense...thnx for the hasty response bpratt

sadly the pc crashed again and restarted with the same problem:

On Sat 10/13/2012 12:35:28 AM GMT your computer crashed
crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\101212-21075-01.dmp
This was probably caused by the following module: nvlddmkm.sys (nvlddmkm+0xADE630)
Bugcheck code: 0x116 (0xFFFFFA800C6734E0, 0xFFFFF8800FAE0630, 0xFFFFFFFFC000009A, 0x4)
Error: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR
file path: C:\Windows\system32\drivers\nvlddmkm.sys
product: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 306.97
company: NVIDIA Corporation
description: NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 306.97
Bug check description: This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed.
A third party driver was identified as the probable root cause of this system error. It is suggested you look for an update for the following driver: nvlddmkm.sys (NVIDIA Windows Kernel Mode Driver, Version 306.97 , NVIDIA Corporation).
Google query: nvlddmkm.sys NVIDIA Corporation VIDEO_TDR_ERROR

i did some research and i found alot with my same problem and same card 570 1.2 version stating tht i need to update the firmware for the card b4 i go and DL something i have no idea about (thought the firmware was included in the drivers guess not) thought i would check with the forums first so what u guys think?

this has happened with several drivers atleast the last three tht i can think of prolly even further back...have done clean installs of all, driver sweeper etc but when i found the idea to upgrade the firmware and a few onlin (evga website stating tht it fixed there problem got my to think mayb thts the problem...anyway would love some thoughts on this tyvm in advance

i had already done the card thing they both seem fine ran furmark heaven aida64 etc, so the cards where ruled out, guess i could try the ram, this is only wen im gaming sometimes it happens sometimes it doesnt

on a side note i found this article very helpful http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1174372

in regards to uninstall/install of the newer nvidia drivers. alot of VERY useful info tht im sure alot of users are unaware of, i had recently just found this info and uninstalled and reinstalled the newer set of drivers, and went step by step with this guide, hopefully it cures my problem, because according to this guide, i was doing it wrong. so hopefully it was just a corrupted driver, hope key word here.

in tht guide it states to stay away from nvidia hd audio like the plaque, and in my device manager there's like 6 listed, i try to uninstall thm and windows just reinstalls thm automatically wen i reboot so idk wats goin on w/ tht, i have a soundblaster card, so i would think all i would want under sound devices in device manager would be the creative soundblaster correct....?


Edited by Aka - 14 Oct 2012 at 8:27pm

ya just had 2 bluescreens back to back so it seems to be getting worse, i did some research on nvlddmkm.sys and a few ppl found tht updating there firmware for the cards gtx 570, fixed this issue, guess the firmware is only issued by evga directly so i submitted a ticket to thm hopefully they get back to me.

my question is has any1 had to do this with there cards, or maybe better yet with there 570's?? ive never heard of this personally so i just want to double check b4 i try this route out..but i guess its worth a shot since ive tried everything else it seems. as of now im going to try to uninstall these new nvidia drivers and get an older one and see if it plays nicer with my cards, its a shot in the dark at this point

ya when i delete thm it just installed as microsoft hd audio instead im guessing these are the onboard gpu's sound?? 

I would say the best thing would be to work with our team directly on this and go over everything to see if you may have missed a step that might help figure out what is wrong.

Originally posted by bprat22 I believe your gpus are under Display Adapters. I know you've done a ton of things but have you gone to Display Adapters in Device Manager, right click the cards and click uninstall.  Do a cold reboot, not restart from Start and let Windows do its thing.   I know you checked temps on the cards, but I also would leave HWMonitor open for awhile and monitor the max temps while gaming.  Maybe you already did this.

ya i avoided uninstalling the gpu drivers from device manager, the newer nvidia drivers are whole different animal from wat i read here

 http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1174372

ya i know tht the gpu drivers are under display adapters, i was talking about the 8 or 9 audio drivers tht r listed in tht picture.
  
 i was just wandering are those the gpu sound drivers or wat cuz they where once listed as nvidia hd audio but wen i deleted those, and did a clean install of the gpu driver itself they reinstalled as what u see there, just basic hd audio.

anywho im going to see if i can game for awhile and ill test it on a few games i have and make sure its only in swtor --Lol btw just noticed how long this thread has become i might have to start a new one