After a brief and unstable OC with MSI afterburner, I can not get my 3080 ti to revert to stock settings.

[Bloodmoore]

I installed afterburner on my new machine recently. I7-13700k and rtx 3080 ti founders edition. This machine ran fine for months until I tried to OC the graphics card with afterburner. I ended up turning the core clock up to like 2000 and the memory only about a +200 boost. I adjusted the curve manually and somehow made it unstable.

 

No big deal I would just revert the changes.. but before I realized I had an issue. I went into CCleaner and cleaned the registry. I don't know if that is relevant, but now I can not get my gpu stable. I have tried everything I can think of: I have even changed out the motherboard and power supply (thought it may be cpu but am certain now its the gpu); I have reinstalled windows.

 

I am watching the clock speeds for the card on HWinfo and it still wants to boost to the OC I set before all the troubleshooting. 

I Uninstalled afterburner and my gpu drivers with display driver Uninstaller via safe mode, but the issue persists.

 

I have no idea what to do, any suggestions, please?

[Madsyrn]

Try installing afterburner again.

[leclod]

7 minutes ago, Bloodmoore said:

No big deal I would just revert the changes.. but before I realized I had an issue.

Which issue ?

[Bloodmoore]

12 minutes ago, leclod said:

Which issue ?

It's unstable, games will run for a minute just fine and then I get huge frame dips and it crashes. Also I am getting loads of coil whine under load and I never used to get any. It all started with the OC in afterburner.

[Bloodmoore]

16 minutes ago, Madsyrn said:

Try installing afterburner again.

I installed afterburner again and it still shows the oc speeds which I set that were unstable.

[leclod]

6 minutes ago, Bloodmoore said:

It's unstable, games will run for a minute just fine and then I get huge frame dips and it crashes. Also I am getting loads of coil whine under load and I never used to get any. It all started with the OC in afterburner.

At stock speeds ?

 

Edit : ok, it still tries to reach higher

Just to be sure, you pressed Reset and Apply ?

Edited March 24, 2023 by leclod

[OU812]

Uninstall afterburner, ddu the drivers and reinstall.

[Bloodmoore]

14 minutes ago, leclod said:

At stock speeds ?

 

Edit : ok, it still tries to reach higher

Just to be sure, you pressed Reset and Apply ?

Yeah I have tried resetting it, dialing It back, Uninstaller the program, Uninstaller drivers, reininstalled drivers, changed out the motherboard, changed out the psu, reinstalled windows. I can't get the dang thing back to stock settings.  

[Bloodmoore]

2 minutes ago, OU812 said:

Uninstall afterburner, ddu the drivers and reinstall.

I already did.. to no avail.

[Bloodmoore]

19 minutes ago, leclod said:

At stock speeds ?

 

Edit : ok, it still tries to reach higher

Just to be sure, you pressed Reset and Apply ?

It isn't running at stock anymore. It's still running overclocked based on the numbers I see. I am trying to get it back to stock.

[leclod]

Maybe you bricked the gpu, hard to believe but...

You could try the gpu in another pc

[Bloodmoore]

Card still running 300 mhz fast but the system thinks that is my default speed. Temporary fix: reinstalled afterburner and underclocked by 300 mmhz. It runs stable at stock speeds this way, but I have to apply this bandaid fix everytime I start the pc up.

[leclod]

1 hour ago, Bloodmoore said:

Card still running 300 mhz fast but the system thinks that is my default speed. Temporary fix: reinstalled afterburner and underclocked by 300 mmhz. It runs stable at stock speeds this way, but I have to apply this bandaid fix everytime I start the pc up.

You shouldn't need to, there's that Windows Startup button... (also start with Windows in the menu)

 

Edited March 24, 2023 by leclod

[Snipe440]

What helped me with fixing an unstable oc was going into safe mode and uninstalling afterburner.

[Bloodmoore]

1 hour ago, Sniperman440 said:

What helped me with fixing an unstable oc was going into safe mode and uninstalling afterburner.

Tried that.. did it with networking off. Still came back to it oc

[Alex Atkin UK]

9 hours ago, Bloodmoore said:

Card still running 300 mhz fast but the system thinks that is my default speed. Temporary fix: reinstalled afterburner and underclocked by 300 mmhz. It runs stable at stock speeds this way, but I have to apply this bandaid fix everytime I start the pc up.

Since around the 20x0 series, NVIDIA cards do not strictly stick to the base/boost clocks advertised by the vendor.  That's more a "it will do at LEAST this much" rather than a limit.

My 3080 boosts up to 1920Mhz on default settings, and if you actually look at what the vBIOS is allowing its set to 2100Mhz Max, even though the card is advertised at 1440 Mhz base, 1710 Mhz Boost.  This is why OC cards are largely pointless these days, they just nudge the clock scaling up a little and unlock higher power limits, but stock cards are designed to clock as high as possible by default anyway.

 

A 300Mhz over stock should NOT be causing instability, there is something wrong here.

[Bloodmoore]

17 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Since around the 20x0 series, NVIDIA cards do not strictly stick to the base/boost clocks advertised by the vendor.  That's more a "it will do at LEAST this much" rather than a limit.

My 3080 boosts up to 1920Mhz on default settings, and if you actually look at what the vBIOS is allowing its set to 2100Mhz Max, even though the card is advertised at 1440 Mhz base, 1710 Mhz Boost.  This is why OC cards are largely pointless these days, they just nudge the clock scaling up a little and unlock higher power limits, but stock cards are designed to clock as high as possible by default anyway.

 

A 300Mhz over stock should NOT be causing instability, there is something wrong here.

I wonder if it's a lack of voltage or power to go with it? With just the OC from 1695 to 1995 I get unbearable coilwhine 

[Alex Atkin UK]

8 hours ago, Bloodmoore said:

I wonder if it's a lack of voltage or power to go with it? With just the OC from 1695 to 1995 I get unbearable coilwhine 

Coil whine sadly is another very common thing with 30x0 and 40x0 series cards, its not an indication of a problem though.