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I tried updating the display driver to something more current but that didn't solve the problem.

It doesn't matter what I'm doing, surfing, playing a game, every 10-20 minutes my display driver is crashing and recovering.

Nvidia 580 + Latest driver from the Nvidia site.

Most likely with that symptom is heat buildup. Find a temperature program that will read your GPU temperature and see if it climbs and climbs rather than settling down to a reasonable temperature.

stienman said:

Most likely with that symptom is heat buildup. Find a temperature program that will read your GPU temperature and see if it climbs and climbs rather than settling down to a reasonable temperature.

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Grabbed GPU-Z and it reads at a solid 50.0C

I'm having the exact same problem, just started today while playing WoW. Was using a beta driver, updating to the newest non-beta driver from nvidia now.

Almost same card, I'm running a 570.

Is your bios up to date? Windows updates?

Windows update is fully up to date. No idea about the bios, I don't even know how to check.

Still downloading the new nvidia driver to see if that helps. On a bit of a slow connection currently.

Windows update is 100%, not sure about BIOS.

Ravenpoe said:

Windows update is fully up to date. No idea about the bios, I don't even know how to check.

Still downloading the new nvidia driver to see if that helps. On a bit of a slow connection currently.

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I have the newest driver. Didn't help.

What were you doing when it happened? I was playing WoW when all of a sudden the screen froze up, and little green boxes appeared all over both of my displays. Then everything crashed and went back to normal, with a notice telling me that the display driver had crashed and been recovered.

It's been mostly while in WoW, but it's windowed with a second monitor. It crashes and recovers every once in a while.

So far this is all I've found similar to our problem if WoW is the culprit.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/6573697404

More Info:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/5327642948
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/5335993674

Beware SSAO, I had this issue some time ago.

Well I'm having display driver crashes even while not in WoW. I have a more serious problem than I thought....

I had a similar problem.Turned out to be dustbuildup on my graphic card fan wich prevented it from spinning.

Looking at nvidia's website, it seems to be a widespread problem with the 500 series cards. So far the best recommendation has been to download their utilities to underclock the gpu by about 50mhz and try running games in dx9 until they sort it out.

Ravenpoe said:

Looking at nvidia's website, it seems to be a widespread problem with the 500 series cards. So far the best recommendation has been to download their utilities to underclock the gpu by about 50mhz and try running games in dx9 until they sort it out.

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But why all of a sudden? I had zero problems with this for the past year.

Even worse I was considering buying a second 580 for SLI....

Gilgamesh said:

But why all of a sudden? I had zero problems with this for the past year.

Even worse I was considering buying a second 580 for SLI....

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I have no idea. It hit me at the same time.

After running multiple GPU-Z sensor logs I can tell that my GPU temp never goes over 66 at any given time. On average it stays at 45-55.

Just had another crash, with Afterburner running I noticed that GPU usage shoots to 100% as it's crashing then drops back down to the 30-60% it normally runs under when it recovers.

I know i had a shitload of problems with nvidia drivers.... and eventually I had to go somewhere in the driver configuration and turn something off and ALL PROBLEMS WENT AWAY.

I'll check it tonight and see if I can recall which one it was.

I mean.. seriously... I was having WEEKS of issue just because some dipshit added a new feature that hasn't been tested properly and a scroll down from yes to no which took 2 seconds to do, was preventing a 500$ card from working right.

Something would be great. Having my entire system go black and restart my screens every 5-10 minutes is driving me clear up the wall.

Also it could be god's way of telling you to stop playing WoW and start playing a Sniper in TF2 Mann vs Machine.

Never played too good of a Sniper but when I did play TF2 a while back I was mostly either a Soldier or Heavy. Easy mode characters I know but I didn't play much.

Wouldn't even know where to begin with the new Mann vs Machine gameplay.

As for stopping WoW, it wouldn't help as I'm getting the crashes even outside of the game.

As it seems to be a genuine issue a lot of people are having caused by something nvidia did, I'm not sure if this is really helping or not, but did you try running CCleaner in safe mode to get rid of all vestiges of the video driver, and then install the newest ones?

Ok I've spent ALL day trying to get this resolved:

I tried full uninstall of drivers, driver sweeper in safe mode, reinstall of drivers...... crash every 5-10 minutes.
I tried setting the PhysX to the GTX instead of Auto-Mode..... crash every 5-10 minutes.
I get crashes in games, just surfing, just watching videos. Anything.

The GPU load just hits 99% then crashes then goes back to normal till the next crashes.

This is really starting to frustrate me.

That's where I'm headed next..... Which can only end with bad news.

NVIDIA did just release a new set of drivers last night (9/13) for version 306.23 which they say is WHQL* for Vista, Win7, and Win8.
If you are still having trouble, you could try reverting to the last 64-bit WHQL version (301.42), which was released in May2012, though NVIDIA is strongly recommending everyone use the 306.23 version (for whatever reason, probably the Win8 support).
Please note that all the drivers I link to above are the 64-bit versions for Win7/8/Vista. If you are running 32-bit versions of XP/Vista/Win7, you will need to choose the 32-bit version of the drivers instead.

Note: According to NVIDIA, v306.xx will be the LAST version of their GPU drivers which will support the older GeForce 6xxx and 7xxx series (6800 Ultra, 7900 GS, etc), so if you want a version that works with your older (possibly AGP) graphics card, you might want to grab a copy of whatever 306.xx version (this one or a later one) ends up being the last release to keep around juuuuust in case.

--Patrick
*This means that Microsoft has certified it as A-OK with their OS, if you didn't already know what that means.

It's DEFINITELY a driver issue. I just popped in a GTX560 that was running on an older driver on another computer into this one, updated the driver to the current 306.23 and boom, same thing. Driver crashing and recovering every 5-10 minutes.

Then I suppose we'll be seeing 306.24 any day now.

--Patrick

Well my GTX580 is back in my system, I completely wiped the drivers and installed 301.42.

Please let this work....

Welp that didn't work. 301.42 is crashing and recovering too.

Wow... there is no solving this. I doubt even a reformat of the computer would work at this point.

The only thing I can think of trying to get my hands on an ATI card and trying that.

Well, at least now you know it's probably not the card. That should be some comfort to your wallet.

--Patrick

Not sure how that's a comfort to my wallet if I haven't solved the issue.

Even looking at the next gen of video cards, Radeon 7970 vs GTX680 it looks like Nvidia would still be my best bet and it's Nvidia that's the problem right now. Ugh... I don't know what to do.

I'd rather just keep this GTX580 but without the crashing... obviously....

I can pretty much guarantee a crash by leaving the computer alone for about 3-5 minutes.

When I come back, everything on the screen (game) is moving choppy and the moment I try and click anything, it crashes and recovers.

The symptoms sound to me like some sort of memory leak, but I wouldn't know which application is doing the leaking.

If you want to freefall down the rabbit hole, I might check into these NVIDIA tools, though I have to say I've never used them myself. And eventually you might discover that it was all Flash Player's fault*, or something.

--Patrick
*Or some other "GPU-assisted technology" in there.

Flash Player has been sucking hard as of late.

For the last 6 months or so, I've constantly run into issues with video stutters in flash based videos. It's kind of annoying. It's not an issue with my video drivers, otherwise, I'd have the same issue with Netflix, but Netflix runs through silverlight, so I'm inclined to think it's crappy flash programming.

So after spending some time on the EVGA forums and trying literally every option that was thrown at me, I'm formatting the main hard drive.

If that doesn't work, well then fuck I don't know what else to do. What's annoying is that I'm not the only one with the problem and everyone's solution boils down to -you need to uninstall and reinstall the drivers correctly-. One person though it might be my flash player hardware acceleration, that didn't work. Someone had me try a different video card (as I said before I tried a GTX560 and it didn't work). I tried 3 different older drivers. None of them worked. I'm completely done trying to fix this with a scalpel. It's time for the sledgehammer.

When you were trying all these different drivers, were you uninstalling the old ones from safe mode?

I was uninstalling the drivers, rebooting into safe mode, removing the rest with driver sweeper, rebooting, installing the new drivers, rebooting and then watching my system crash every 5-10 minutes.

OK, yeah, you followed all the proper precautions for clean driver installs, then.

If this doesn't fix it, then wow, I guess I dunno what else to do.

Assuming I've managed to catch you in time, try testing before you run all the Windows updates. It might be that it's one of the OS hotfixes that is plaguing you, and not the graphics drivers at all.

First step to proper troubleshooting, courtesy Mr. Holmes:

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

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--Patrick

Poor Gilgy is having a lot more trouble than I was. I only crashed while playing WoW, every other game was fine. And after two days of driver crashes while in WoW, it randomly stopped happening.

Also, while checking through my BIOS, I found a setting that was set incorrectly and had been ever since I built the computer. It seems I had my main display set for PCI instead of PCI-e... talk about a performance boost.

Ravenpoe said:

Poor Gilgy is having a lot more trouble than I was. I only crashed while playing WoW, every other game was fine. And after two days of driver crashes while in WoW, it randomly stopped happening.

Also, while checking through my BIOS, I found a setting that was set incorrectly and had been ever since I built the computer. It seems I had my main display set for PCI instead of PCI-e... talk about a performance boost.

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again, I say... lol

Ravenpoe said:

Also, while checking through my BIOS, I found a setting that was set incorrectly and had been ever since I built the computer. It seems I had my main display set for PCI instead of PCI-e... talk about a performance boost.

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Do tell how you found this.

Oh and yeah I reformatted my main drive. Went smoothly, running like silk now. Haven't tested WoW + Browsing yet but I'll get to it.

Gilgamesh said:

Do tell how you found this.

Oh and yeah I reformatted my main drive. Went smoothly, running like silk now. Haven't tested WoW + Browsing yet but I'll get to it.

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It was just an option in the BIOS. It had to have been set that way ever since I built the damn thing, because I hadn't changed it before.

Yeah, some info on where this option is would be great to check on.

http://www.google.com/search?q=E7522v1.0.zip

Chapter 3, page 9 (page 3-9)
"Primary Graphics Adapter"

--Patrick