Everything crashed GTX780

[BloodWithIce]

For some reason, everything started crashing. Heaven benchmark, bioshock, Battlefield... It says that Nvidia driver 337.50 stopped and recovered successfully. 
Is it a driver problem? I have a 780 and it started crashing when I overclocked it at +250 on memory and clock, I put it back on stock, but everything keeps crashing after a matter of seconds. 
Have I destroyed my card? It's working fine at idle. 
This message comes up after bf4 crashes:

[RelentlessAF]

I had an issue like this, try switching PCI-E lanes and re-installing non-beta drivers. The lane could be dying, I had that issue and it was a pain.

[Wiflare]

I'm betting it's because of the beta driver.

[BloodWithIce]

I had an issue like this, try switching PCI-E lanes and re-installing non-beta drivers. The lane could be dying, I had that issue and it was a pain.

It worked just fine yesterday. Can I claim RMA on a dying pcie? 

 

 

I'm betting it's because of the beta driver.

I'll try to install the normal drivers now, it was working fine with the beta driver yesterday.

[RelentlessAF]

It worked just fine yesterday. Can I claim RMA on a dying pcie? 

You can but you'd have to test to find out first.

[lani100]

Could be the Beta driver or a too high overclock or too much load on the card.

[nokturrduk84]

Did you try uninstall current driver & install latest stable one?

[BloodWithIce]

Could be the Beta driver or a too high overclock or too much load on the card.

It's on idle now, still crashes. +250 on both on a reference clocked card isn't much. 

[BloodWithIce]

Did you try uninstall current driver & install latest stable one?

Doing it right now, but 337.50 was working fine yesterday. 

[AlwaysFSX]

It's on idle now, still crashes. +250 on both on a reference clocked card isn't much. 

250 is actually a fucking lot.  :blink: Reinstalling the driver on stock clocks should fix it.

[BloodWithIce]

250 is actually a fucking lot.  :blink: Reinstalling the driver on stock clocks should fix it.

Could have I damaged the card forever? 

[Unhelpful]

It's on idle now, still crashes. +250 on both on a reference clocked card isn't much. 

If you got unlucky with the silicon lottery you bet that is a lot.

[BloodWithIce]

Everything started working again randomly lol. Not overclocking ever again until I get my waterblock. 

[ArumanBE]

It's on idle now, still crashes. +250 on both on a reference clocked card isn't much. 

 i got +157 core and + 270 mem without increasing voltage and thats all i can get out of my reference before it gets unstable and i get driver crashes and stuff (basicly wat u r experiencing now).

Reboot in safe mode. uninstall all drivers reboot normal reinstall drivers and do some tests at stock clock. that way you can be sure you didn't damage the card. after that you can start overclocking again if you still want to.

But take it in small steps and test between increases of clockspeeds. Overcloking takes a lot of time if you want to do it right and have a stable card. A 15 min stres test isn't enough. Sometimes crashes occure even after more then an hour of gaming.

edit: the clockspeed you enter isn't the actual clockspeed the card runs at when under load. e.g.: my card runs at 1020 MHz / 1059 MHz boost according to gpu-Z but when the card get's under load it even go's up to 1123MHz according to the sensors.

        

[lani100]

It's on idle now, still crashes. +250 on both on a reference clocked card isn't much. 

ocing on a refrence card -___- bad idea mate.

[BloodWithIce]

ocing on a refrence card -___- bad idea mate.

It's a jetstream card on reference clocks.

[BloodWithIce]

i got +157 core and + 270 mem without increasing voltage and thats all i can get out of my reference before it gets unstable and i get driver crashes and stuff (basicly wat u r experiencing now).

Reboot in safe mode. uninstall all drivers reboot normal reinstall drivers and do some tests at stock clock. that way you can be sure you didn't damage the card. after that you can start overclocking again if you still want to.

But take it in small steps and test between increases of clockspeeds. Overcloking takes a lot of time if you want to do it right and have a stable card. A 15 min stres test isn't enough. Sometimes crashes occure even after more then an hour of gaming.

edit: the clockspeed you enter isn't the actual clockspeed the card runs at when under load. e.g.: my card runs at 1020 MHz / 1059 MHz boost according to gpu-Z but when the card get's under load it even go's up to 1123MHz according to the sensors.

Mine goes up to 1228 with gpu boost on my old oc

[AlwaysFSX]

Could have I damaged the card forever? 

It's possible but HIGHLY unlikely. I'm more likely to have my computer outperform yours before that happens.

[ArumanBE]

ocing on a refrence card -___- bad idea mate.

why should that be a problem? Mine runs with reference cooler at 71C. at stock settings it go's up to 80c. The only thing you need to do is set some custom fan profiles. downside is, it gets loud . 

 

[lani100]

It's a jetstream card on reference clocks.

nvm, didn't knew that.

[BloodWithIce]

Btw, i was running the fans at 100% so it didn't overheat and I.didn't see any artefacts. Windows didn't crash at all

[Luckris]

Btw, i was running the fans at 100% so it didn't overheat and I.didn't see any artefacts. Windows didn't crash at all

I'm going to go and say that it's the drivers. Overclock crashes look like your describing, but could be your mobo if it's old or just a bad one in the batch. IF you can test another GPU, or motherboard I would do that before sending a RMA on the 780. you should be fine though, I get 300+ on my mem clock and 155 on my core clock. I'm watercooling everything I have also, and messing with voltages... 

I get alot of issues with Nvidia drives making playing some of my games a living hell. Sometimes I'll get a blue screen on heavily modded games, or they will like to decide to have glitches on some days.. But yeah, check Drivers, then Overclock, then the mobo, then lastly RMA if all is bad.