Strange 780 problem

[James199001]

Heres my problem,

 

I got the 780 new about 1-2 months ago, about 2 weeks ago i noticed that whilst gaming the screen would disconect briefly (like 2 seconds) every 1-2 hours.

I ignored the problem as i thought it may just be a glitch of some kind but in the last 3 days it has started doing it every 1 to 10 mins whilst gaming, it also does it whilst not gaming, it did it twice whilst writing this already.

Firstly i blamed it on my monitor, because i have a 2 monitor setup and only the primary monitor would have the problem but after swaping them around it is still the primary monitor that suffers no matter what monitor i use.

I have already tried different ports on the 780 so im sure it isnt a bad dvi conection problem.

I have tried using another PCI slot on my asus sabertooth z87 but the problem is still there so it isnt a pci problem.

The power supply i am using is a ocz zs 750W 80+ bronze so im sure its not that.

The graphics card never reaches over 70c

I tried a clean install of graphics drivers too but no luck

Because of all of this I would say it is a bad chip or bad solder on the chip but would like somebody elses idea on what it could be, I dont want to rma it and find that its not the gpu thats the problem.

 

all my specs are here, all parts are about 1-2 months old except from the hard drive and ssd there about 20 months old, the psu is just under 12 months old

 

CPU: I5-4670K (Quad core @ 3.4hz) 

Graphics: EVGA Geforce GTX 780 Superclocked 

RAM: 8GB (2X4GB) Kingston HyperX Beast @ 1600Mhz 

Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth Z87 

Power supply: OCZ ZS series 750W 

Storage: 60GB Kingston SSD & 1TB Hitachi HDD 

Monitors: 27" BENQ GW2760 & 23" DGM L-2362WD 

Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 

Case: NZXT Phantom 530

 

James

 

 

 

[MegaDave91]

Unrelated, but I couldn't help but notice your rear fan is pulling in air. Do you have ANY exhaust?

[Jogostar]

I have the same issue with my 560 Ti.

Might be heat.

[James199001]

Unrelated, but I couldn't help but notice your rear fan is pulling in air. Do you have ANY exhaust?

I was planing on putting in A h100 I and herd it would be good that way

[MegaDave91]

I was planing on putting in A h100 I and herd it would be good that way

So you have zero active exhaust then? 

[James199001]

I have the same issue with my 560 Ti.

Might be heat.

i just ran a burn in test on fur mark and the teml leveled out at about 75c

[James199001]

So you have zero active exhaust then? 

2 120 exhaust fans on the top

[MegaDave91]

2 120 exhaust fans on the top

Ok, you worried me for a second. 

[Enderman]

Ok, you worried me for a second. 

 

you dont need active exhaust

its better without because you can get a greater positive air pressure

thats why most people put the rear fan as an intake, because the top fans/rad is usually exhaust

 

if you have intake, the air gets pushed out automatically with no need of exhaust fans

[MegaDave91]

you dont need active exhaust

its better without because you can get a greater positive air pressure

thats why most people put the rear fan as an intake, because the top fans/rad is usually exhaust

 

if you have intake, the air gets pushed out automatically with no need of exhaust fans

I'm not even going to bother arguing this because it's one that will never be settled.

[paras]

I feel the issue could be the heat

[James199001]

could it be a problem with the ram, mobo or cpu? or is it most likely the gpu?

[James199001]

I feel the issue could be the heat

on the nvidia website it says this card can take 95c, i monitor my temps whilst gaming and it never goes over 70c

[James199001]

I feel the issue could be the heat

Also the fact that it happens whilst not gaming rules out heat does it not, it happened twice whilst i was making this thread and all i had open was this page

[James199001]

im going to try the previous driver version, see if that does anything, will report back later.

[James199001]

problem sorted, im so happy right now that i dont have to rma my card. I downloaded the previous drivesr for my card and did a clean install with them, played red faction guerila because it seems to happen most on that game and dead island riptide, it didnt have a problem.

There must have been a conflict between the newest nvidia drivers and others on my pc.

 

Thanks for all your help anyway people.

 

now how do i delete this thread or does a mod do it?

[Enderman]

problem sorted, im so happy right now that i dont have to rma my card. I downloaded the previous drivesr for my card and did a clean install with them, played red faction guerila because it seems to happen most on that game and dead island riptide, it didnt have a problem.

There must have been a conflict between the newest nvidia drivers and others on my pc.

 

Thanks for all your help anyway people.

 

now how do i delete this thread or does a mod do it?

threads just stay up forever

the point of a forum is so that people can search for solutions to their problems in LTT or google

and then they can find someone like you who has had the same problem, and also resolved

 

this thread helps others fix the same problem

[Sack]

problem sorted, im so happy right now that i dont have to rma my card. I downloaded the previous drivesr for my card and did a clean install with them, played red faction guerila because it seems to happen most on that game and dead island riptide, it didnt have a problem.

There must have been a conflict between the newest nvidia drivers and others on my pc.

 

Thanks for all your help anyway people.

 

now how do i delete this thread or does a mod do it?

 

You should however mark the post with the solution with the "mark as solved" button