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Yea, Windows 10 isn't going to solve anything. 

Weird that nothing helps, RMA it or something I guess

 

The final thing I could suggest is to download EVGA Precision X16 and enable K-Boost, which will lock your clock and voltage at their max.

GPU Boost can cause issues because it's actually really stupid when it comes to scaling clocks and voltages, often not giving enough voltage for the current clock causing crashes. Though this is more common when overclocking, considering you even downclocked and still had the problem, it's probably not that.

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Hello...so what to start with...i bought new computer back in november 2014 (CPU i5-4690k , memory Kingston Hyper X savage 8 GB 1866 , PSU Corsair CS650M ,MoBo Gigabyte Z97X gaming 5 and GPU Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 gaming)  everything was working perfectly ...according to GPU-Z and HWMonitor  , GPU max Temperature is 68°C and CPU 55°C ..overall airflow 30°C...everything was working perfectly until recently (well , like month ago)...i installed new drivers (353.06 ) and since then bad things are happening while playing...random crashing (sometimes no crash whole day , sometime crash after 5 minutes ,sometimes just black screen , sometimes with artefacts or one color on whole screen and sometimes i need to  hard reset pc..also sometimes event viewer shows either "display driver stopped responding and has recovered succesfuly" or error with ID 13 "The description for Event ID 13 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.")

 

Nothing is overclocked (i wanted to overclock later when new games will require more power) so i thought it must be bad driver installation ,so i uninstalled drivers with DDU in safe mode and instaled them again ..but that didnt help ..so i uninstalled them again and installed older ( first tried 347.52 then 344.11) but that didnt help too...i tried set performance option to max (both in Nvdia control panel and in Windows power managment ) but nothing again...tried disabling windows aero..display composition..reseating gpu...and last thing i tried was clean installation of Windows 7...nothing helped..., someone suggested updating BIOS  but i am affraid i will make it worse (like completely destroy PC and lose warranty  ) 

 

So ..here i am ..asking you guys for advice ...does it look like faulty hardware or software problem ...should i wait until windows 10 come out (hoping it is software problem that new windows might solve) or put PC to service (i can give my pc to retailer for free service ..but i will be without computer for God knows how long) 

 

Sorry for long post..i really dont know what to do...

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You can try the newest Nvidia driver here: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3698

 

Nvidia has fucked up their last 5 driver releases, just recently releasing new fixed drivers 353.38 and 353.45

I don't know what else to suggest

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Same thing happened to me, when I tried to reinstall the nvidia drivers every single program that contains any video would crash so what I had to do was uninstall Nvidia Drivers, PhysX Drivers, DirectX, Intel HD Drivers then install them again which fixed the problem.

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Hello...so what to start with...i bought new computer back in november 2014 (CPU i5-4690k , memory Kingston Hyper X savage 8 GB 1866 , PSU Corsair CS650M ,MoBo Gigabyte Z97X gaming 5 and GPU Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 gaming)  everything was working perfectly ...according to GPU-Z and HWMonitor  , GPU max Temperature is 68°C and CPU 55°C ..overall airflow 30°C...everything was working perfectly until recently (well , like month ago)...i installed new drivers (353.06 ) and since then bad things are happening while playing...random crashing (sometimes no crash whole day , sometime crash after 5 minutes ,sometimes just black screen , sometimes with artefacts or one color on whole screen and sometimes i need to  hard reset pc..also sometimes event viewer shows either "display driver stopped responding and has recovered succesfuly" or error with ID 13 "The description for Event ID 13 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.")

 

Nothing is overclocked (i wanted to overclock later when new games will require more power) so i thought it must be bad driver installation ,so i uninstalled drivers with DDU in safe mode and instaled them again ..but that didnt help ..so i uninstalled them again and installed older ( first tried 347.52 then 344.11) but that didnt help too...i tried set performance option to max (both in Nvdia control panel and in Windows power managment ) but nothing again...tried disabling windows aero..display composition..reseating gpu...and last thing i tried was clean installation of Windows 7...nothing helped..., someone suggested updating BIOS  but i am affraid i will make it worse (like completley destroy PC and lose warranty  ) 

 

So ..here i am ..asking you guys for advice ...does it look like faulty hardware or software problem ...should i wait till windows 10 come out (hoping it is software problem that new windows might solve) or put PC to service (i can give my pc to retailer for free service ..but i will be without computer for God knows how long) 

 

Sorry for long post..i really dont know what to do...

yeah, it's a nividea driver issue. I have the same problem, and I've tried the same solutions, disabling power mangement in the PCIe lanes, and within nividea. using msi afterburner to raise the power target (BTW i run a reference 980) The other options are a bit unpalatable. Downloading a replacement driver file from some website with porn adds in the background(yeah, that totally screams legit), or flashing a custom bios file with raised power limits. I haven't found a consistent solution, however my fixes have decreased the frequency of crashes.

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I HAD to go all the way back to 347.XX!!!! for stability in ALL my games (I have 35 games installed currently, dat SSD 512GB Raid0 comes in handy)

 

Newer drivers would work only for a short time before throwing an error or crash my way in some games.

347x has zero issues after hours with my overclocks on ANY of my games.

 

Something I can't say for Nvidia's last 3-5 driver releases....

Maximums - Asus Z97-K /w i5 4690 Bclk @106.9Mhz * x39 = 4.17Ghz, 8GB of 2600Mhz DDR3,.. Gigabyte GTX970 G1-Gaming @ 1550Mhz

 

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I HAD to go all the way back to 347.XX!!!! for stability in ALL my games

As i mentioned..not even going down to 344.11 helped me...this is exactly why i dont know if it is faulty gpu or driver or something else ...

Right now i am testing 353.45 

If it is not going to work i will wait for Win 10 (some people with the same issue were lucky with Win 10 beta , according to nvidia forums)

and if that is not going to work too ...i will send it back and choose different GPU from different brand (if GPU is to blame)

Anyway ...thank you for your responses 

I will report back about the new drivers 

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I HAD to go all the way back to 347.XX!!!! for stability in ALL my games (I have 35 games installed currently, dat SSD 512GB Raid0 comes in handy)

 

Newer drivers would work only for a short time before throwing an error or crash my way in some games.

347x has zero issues after hours with my overclocks on ANY of my games.

 

Something I can't say for Nvidia's last 3-5 driver releases....

 

Which driver specifically mate?

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Which driver specifically mate?

347.52

Just today I have moved to the 353.45 hotfix  from those SUPER stable drivers,...35 games installed no issues at all cept>playing BF4 today the first time since I got this GPU,..I was getting BF4 DX errors saying DeviceHung, so figured I'd update and see if its a driver related thing..

Then the BF4 login issue happened straight after and now no1 can login, so I cant test that specific thing yet.

 

But yeah I was using 347.52 just fine cept for this new BF4 issue, but no CTD's or anything weird like the latest drivers before this hotfix were doing.

Maximums - Asus Z97-K /w i5 4690 Bclk @106.9Mhz * x39 = 4.17Ghz, 8GB of 2600Mhz DDR3,.. Gigabyte GTX970 G1-Gaming @ 1550Mhz

 

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GeForce Hotfix driver 353.38 is the most stable for me. As above the latest 5 drivers were awful across the board. In my case it was shutting down/freezing my computer when streaming videos via Chrome!

 

Hotfix driver 353.38 Link here

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Yea, Windows 10 isn't going to solve anything. 

Weird that nothing helps, RMA it or something I guess

 

The final thing I could suggest is to download EVGA Precision X16 and enable K-Boost, which will lock your clock and voltage at their max.

GPU Boost can cause issues because it's actually really stupid when it comes to scaling clocks and voltages, often not giving enough voltage for the current clock causing crashes. Though this is more common when overclocking, considering you even downclocked and still had the problem, it's probably not that.

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