VRAM stuck at 243mhz

[Tweakforce_LG]

Recently my fan glitches out and the laptop ran passivly multiple times for an hour each, didt feel too warm. This was just using word. When I used YouTube the fan didn't kick it and after 15 mims I checked my CPU temp because the computer was uncompftable. 97c on the i5-2410m. It shares the same heatpipe as the 7470m but the gpu was off at the time in low power state. So it properly received some heat but not as much. I let it cool off and the CPU seemed fine. But eve since the CPU fan was off during word processing that first time (before the major overheat) I had lag in games on the gpu when I got the fan running by plugging the laptop in on charge. Now I have worked out why it lags. I checked gpuz and my core clock is normal 750mhz but my vram clock stuck at 243mhz. When moving the MSI afterburner vram slider from 900mhz to 970mhz, the gpuz goes from 243mhz to 270mhz. I have used DDU and reinstalled drivers. Before reboot after install, the vram clock increases a little from 41mhz idle clock to 81mhz. On reboot it returned to 41mhz idle 243mhz load. I have a HP probook 4530s running windows 10 and had 14.8 drivers until I reinstalled drovers to 16.2.1 

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Sorry for the bump but UPDATE: gpu vram was already at 243mhz before the overheat. I really need assistance as I need to get the vram clock back to 900mhz

[Tweakforce_LG]

UPDATE: pulled out an old hdd with win 10 installed to see if its the os... it isn't, still 243mhz vram under load. If someone can help it would be amazing, I don't want this to be the end of my laptop.

[xAcid9]

What laptop? What GPU?
MSI Afterburner show 243mhz as well?

[Biggerboot]

 

17 hours ago, Tweakforce_LG said:

Recently my fan glitches out and the laptop ran passivly multiple times for an hour each, didt feel too warm. This was just using word. When I used YouTube the fan didn't kick it and after 15 mims I checked my CPU temp because the computer was uncompftable. 97c on the i5-2410m. It shares the same heatpipe as the 7470m but the gpu was off at the time in low power state.

Try speedfan or some fan control software (some laptop fans may not be compatible with it but it's worth trying).  If your fan can't keep a constant speed regardless of thermals, it could be the fan itself going bad and not the fan controller/thermal readings - which in some cases aren't software controlled at all and can only be controlled on firmware.

 

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So it properly received some heat but not as much. I let it cool off and the CPU seemed fine. But eve since the CPU fan was off during word processing that first time (before the major overheat) I had lag in games on the gpu when I got the fan running by plugging the laptop in on charge. Now I have worked out why it lags. I checked gpuz and my core clock is normal 750mhz but my vram clock stuck at 243mhz. When moving the MSI afterburner vram slider from 900mhz to 970mhz, the gpuz goes from 243mhz to 270mhz. I have used DDU and reinstalled drivers. Before reboot after install, the vram clock increases a little from 41mhz idle clock to 81mhz. On reboot it returned to 41mhz idle 243mhz load. I have a HP probook 4530s running windows 10 and had 14.8 drivers until I reinstalled drovers to 16.2.1 

How are you actually stress testing your GPU?  Are you running just a game or a gaming benchmark like Heaven?  Are you seeing the temp increase but not the vRAM clock? (thermal throttling)

 

If you're able to get the fan constantly running at 100%, but are still having throttling issues, then it's likely thermal paste related.  I would try all the conventional fixes if you're daring enough - take the laptop apart, clean out the fans, re-apply thermal paste, etc. 

 

Honestly in my experience with Sandy Bridge laptops they are always hot unless you're running the fan actively 24/7, and years of passive cooling can wear out the thermal paste.  Less likely but possibly, something in the circuitry has gone bad, but either way you'll probably need to open up your laptop and have a technician (may be yourself) troubleshoot the issue. 

 

 

[Tweakforce_LG]

Thanks for the help guys, MSI Afterburner reports the correct vram clock of 900mhz. My fan is working properly again but does not ramp up as much and it seems the gpu may not be producing as much heat. This mhz drop was the only indicator I found to why my fps has dropped lately. Someone else said it was a gpuz bug. The laptop is a HP Probook 4530s i5-2410m that shares its heatpipe with a 7470m. Its running the latest build of win 10 pro 64bit and 4gb ram. There is software that allows me to control my fan and is compatible with my laptop so I'll see if 100% makes a difference even though the gpu stays below 80c under furmark with the supposed 243mhz vram.

[Tweakforce_LG]

100% fan speed with the whole bottom of the laptop removed and placed on a cooling pad for extra cooling. Gpuz still reports 243mhz in furmark for vram. Core clock remains normal and overclockable. The vram doesn't have any heatsinks only the core does, the vram is stuck at 243mhz not the core.

[Tweakforce_LG]

Gpu Max temp now is 58c

[xAcid9]

44 minutes ago, Tweakforce_LG said:

Thanks for the help guys, MSI Afterburner reports the correct vram clock of 900mhz. My fan is working properly again but does not ramp up as much and it seems the gpu may not be producing as much heat. This mhz drop was the only indicator I found to why my fps has dropped lately. Someone else said it was a gpuz bug. The laptop is a HP Probook 4530s i5-2410m that shares its heatpipe with a 7470m. Its running the latest build of win 10 pro 64bit and 4gb ram. There is software that allows me to control my fan and is compatible with my laptop so I'll see if 100% makes a difference even though the gpu stays below 80c under furmark with the supposed 243mhz vram.

It was GPU-Z bug for me. I have HD6770M and GPU-Z reported the same 243mhz. 
HP DV6-6001TX with i7-2630QM.

 

If you want to lower temp, try disable TurboBoost.

[Tweakforce_LG]

55 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

It was GPU-Z bug for me. I have HD6770M and GPU-Z reported the same 243mhz. 
HP DV6-6001TX with i7-2630QM.

 

If you want to lower temp, try disable TurboBoost.

The only concern is sapphire trix also reports that. Software that reads the clocks directly always read 243mhz. As far as I remember it never used to do it. Not until I put 14.8 on win 10 so that I wouldn't get the black screen issue with ULPS enabled. Even after using DDU and restoring 15.7.1 or 16.2.1 it still read 243mhz. But my performance has dropped lately so I'm not sure if that actually is truly 243mhz. Minecraft gets 60-90fps and lags to 10-20fps when loading chunks. It never used to, it would be 80-120fps all the time no matter what. So vram could effect it and its strange it started reading it as 243mhz around the same time as performance dropped. Temps are no longer an issue, but performance remains bad. Only just a bit better than intel HD, it used to be much better than intel HD. I wish there was a way I could get performance back to what it was.

[xAcid9]

Play game and monitor the FPS, then downclock the memory to 300 or lower with MSI Afterburner and check if your FPS drop or not. If it dropped that mean MSI AB report the correct clock. 

[Tweakforce_LG]

Strangly the other HDD with bare win 10 runs games fine  so now i need to figure out what i did to this install since it only started doing this lag a week ago after installing 14.8 drivers. Its strange that after that no matter if I use DDU and install legacy Beta 16.2.1 again it will still remain laggy when it wasnt originally. Might put my win 7 backup on again and update it to win 10 since my license is already there and will activate after upgrade even though win 10 is no longer free.

[xAcid9]

Try connect to internet and monitor your GPU usage when idling, if GPU load is high, that HDD probably infected by Cryptowarez mining coins with your laptop. D:

[Tweakforce_LG]

45 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Try connect to internet and monitor your GPU usage when idling, if GPU load is high, that HDD probably infected by Cryptowarez mining coins with your laptop. D:

It has a 5 trojans that have been removed just 2 mins ago so its all clean, will monitor. If its encrypting my HDD, well i have a 3 week old backup from win 7 i can get my files off ;). The think is the AMD gpu is disabled unless I open games or stress test, the intel hd doesnt ever lag more than it should do. Mind you I am yet to test the AMD gpu with no internet. Id rather it not be mining coins D: But eh i have a backup.

[Tweakforce_LG]

Also im worried to why my fan didnt turn on during YouTube like it would usually do and allowed it to get to 97c.

[Tweakforce_LG]

On 30/07/2016 at 10:25 PM, xAcid9 said:

Try connect to internet and monitor your GPU usage when idling, if GPU load is high, that HDD probably infected by Cryptowarez mining coins with your laptop. D:

All fixed ty