980 TI stuck in Safe Mode

[Gatt]

Hi guys,

 

Basically my MSI 980TI is stuck in safe mode. I haven't overclocked it, and just use the MSI Gaming App to control it's settings. I've read through various topics saying to reinstall the drivers, reinstall this, reinstall that, etc, even used DDU; but nothing. I read through this comment by Imakuni, installed GPU-Z, extracted my BIOS and nothing.

 

Here's an image of GPU-Z and the MSI Gaming App side-by-side in case it's useful.

 

(Usually it's on OC Mode)

 

Any other assistance would be fantastic. I'm not feeling my best right now so I don't want to spend hours in-front of a screen searching for a fix, so I hope you can excuse me if this has been asked before and answered.

 

Before this occurred I installed the Beta GeForce Experience application, since it had a nicer UI. Didn't install any beta drivers - just the application. I retuned Black Ops 3's settings for 5760x1080p, loaded it. Annnnnd it was lagging like crazy. Opened MSi Gaming App, saw it was running at 135MHz. Fun.

[Vegetable]

So I'm assuming by "safe mode" you mean it's just idling at low clock speeds? If so, that's just a power saving feature and it will ramp up when you start a game lmao

[Gatt]

1 minute ago, Vegetable said:

So I'm assuming by "safe mode" you mean it's just idling at low clock speeds? If so, that's just a power saving feature and it will ramp up when you start a game lmao

Yeah, but it's not. Trust me. I've had this card for 6 months now. It's stuck in safe mode. I start any game, it doesn't even move.

[Vegetable]

Just now, Gatt said:

Yeah, but it's not. Trust me. I've had this card for 6 months now. It's stuck in safe mode. I start any game, it doesn't even move.

That is odd. I would honestly uninstall ANY application on your PC that can modify/control your clock speeds. Essentially just DDU one more time, and before you install the graphics drivers again, uninstall afterburner/MSI gaming app/whatever else you have. When you're installing the Nvidia drivers (I'm assuming you're using geforce experience) click the "perform a clean install" button as well. Then go from there.

[Gatt]

Just now, Vegetable said:

That is odd. I would honestly uninstall ANY application on your PC that can modify/control your clock speeds. Essentially just DDU one more time, and before you install the graphics drivers again, uninstall afterburner/MSI gaming app/whatever else you have. When you're installing the Nvidia drivers (I'm assuming you're using geforce experience) click the "perform a clean install" button as well. Then go from there.

I'll definitely try that tomorrow after I get home from work. Don't know why I didn't think of it before. 

[Vegetable]

Just now, Gatt said:

I'll definitely try that tomorrow after I get home from work. Don't know why I didn't think of it before. 

Yeah my old Gtx 570 was finnicky in the fact that sometimes it would decide it wanted to go to max core clock, and never go down. Reinstalled drivers over and over, only to find out afterburner hated that card to the point where as soon as I uninstalled afterburner, it fixed. so I had to swap to EVGA precision (yuck) for the time I ran the card. 

[Gatt]

21 hours ago, Vegetable said:

That is odd. I would honestly uninstall ANY application on your PC that can modify/control your clock speeds. Essentially just DDU one more time, and before you install the graphics drivers again, uninstall afterburner/MSI gaming app/whatever else you have. When you're installing the Nvidia drivers (I'm assuming you're using geforce experience) click the "perform a clean install" button as well. Then go from there.

Thank you very much! Worked like a charm. Had me very worried!

[Vegetable]

3 hours ago, Gatt said:

Thank you very much! Worked like a charm. Had me very worried!

No problem bro. Happy gaming (or whatever the hell else you might use a 980 ti for *COUGH VR PORN COUGH*)