Really interesting pascal issue.

[fastamdman]

So I decided to do some overclocking on my 4790k and as I was running IBT my display driver for my gtx 1080 crashed. I thought it was the overclock so I backed it down, same thing happened. Backed it down to 44x same thing which has always been stable. Dropped it all the way to 40x and of course, the same thing happened.

The entire pc isn't locking up, it's just the display driving crashing and then resuming.

Anyone know why this is happening or a fix for it? I am on a 144hz panel so I just downloaded there hotfix to see if that would solve it, but I doubt it will.

I will test with p95 as well, but I always found IBT to be one of the harder tests out there compared to prime. Plus, prime, in my opinion, takes to long to run to find 24/7 stability.

 

[alcoholbob]

Do you have a web browser like chrome open when you are gaming? It doesn't sound like the CPU is the issue.

 

[fastamdman]

This isn't while I am gaming. I have everything closed besides intel burn test, cam which is the software for my nzxt kraken x61 aio water cooler, and cpuid hardware monitor to watch voltages.

Even at 100% stock everything, the display driver will crash when IBT is running at maximum. Never had this issue until the 1080/the new drivers. I am assuming it's so type of issue with the drives.

This is also on a fairly fresh install of windows 8.1 64bit enterprise N. It was installed a week, maybe 2 ago, when I got the gtx 1080 and the samsung 850 Pro 512gb installed.

 

[sxr7171]

I would use DDU uninstall the driver and reinstall. This kind of weird thing can happen.

 

[fastamdman]

I haven't heard of DDU. I always do fresh clean installs when I install the drivers though through the Nvidia option. I literally JUST updated to the hotifx version of the latest drivers and still had the issue. I guess its worth a shot though.

It's not causing me any issues outside of IBT though. All games play fine.

 

[sxr7171]

DDU has helped me in these situations before. Also you could try OCCT but many would say it's overkill.

 

[fastamdman]

I've used OCCT before, but I prefer IBT personally over it and prime 95. Haven't used it in several years though, might have to give it a shot again.

 

[sxr7171]

Well DDU is my go to for any driver crashes. It works great it even boots into safe mode for you and extricates the old driver and remnants from your machine.

 

[fastamdman]

This the app/link I should be using?

http://www.wagnardmobile.com/?q=node/79

 

[sxr7171]

This the app/link I should be using?

http://www.wagnardmobile.com/?q=node/79

And you'll land up here: http://www.wagnardmobile.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=273

 

[fastamdman]

Alrighty, after I finish up gaming tonight I will download that, uninstall the driver, reinstall the hot fix driver and give it another shot and see what happens. I will also test IBT vs p95 vs OCCT as well.

 

[DaveSimmons]

If your overclock is only 99% stable perhaps the driver install process wrote corrupted file(s)? You might run at stock while doing the uninstall, download, reinstall.

 

[TheRyuu]

If your overclock is only 99% stable perhaps the driver install process wrote corrupted file(s)? You might run at stock while doing the uninstall, download, reinstall.

The thing to keep in mind with overclocks is that even if it's stable 99% of the time it still means that it's 100% unstable. I don't know if this is actually the issue here but it's something worth mentioning.

 

[Flapdrol1337]

It's because IBT is running at a very high priority, the driver doesn't get enough cpu cycles, so it thinks it's crashed.

 

[fastamdman]

This has nothing to do with overclocking as an fyi. This happens with the cpu being at stock clocks, slightly overclocked or heavily overclocked, regardless of voltage ONLY with intel burn test. Running prime 95 or OCCT does not cause the display driver to crash regardless of my stock or overclocked cpu.

This is strictly an issue with IBT and pascal from what I can tell as my 980 on the same drivers don't cause this issue.

 

[LTC8K6]

What happens if you back IBT down somewhat? Maybe set it to 4 threads?

 

[fastamdman]

Pretty sure I resolved this issue. Not entirely sure what it was that fixed it, but I reset my bios to factory settings, changed a few things around and now for the most part I can run IBT without the driver crashing. Until this 1080, I have never had a display driver error from stress testing. Whether it was at stock settings or overclocked, kinda odd. Probably just this card / driver batch. Neither of my strix 980s had this issue.