Not sure what to do here.

[KrayKaz]

The problem I am having started 2 days ago randomly. Little bit of history before I mention the problem. Computer is roughly 2 years old. On it's second CPU since the first one faulted and had to be replaced (on Intel thankfully). I recently (within the last few months, don't remember when) overclocked said new CPU to 3.9 Ghz @ 1.28V (maybe, I don't remember the voltage exaclty), up from 3.3, has been running just fine ever since. Graphics card has not been OC'd ever. On to the problem...

 

The other day I was playing and older game called Day of Defeat: Source (not by any means a graphical giant) when suddenly my screens went grey and orange (one grey, one orange) and I got caught in a sound loop. I had to hard restart my machine. In the process, I lost my CPU overclock and RAID configuration which in turn caused me to lose all my games, not that big a deal. I ended up skipping fixing the RAID right away and wanted to investigate. I opened up event viewer, and as you can see from the attached screens, it was flooded with errors, most of them reading the same message (something about application 'whatever' has been blocked from access graphics hardware) with the exception of the first few reading that the nv yadda yadda driver has stopped working and recovered successfully (clearly false).

 

Seeing this, first thing I did was remove the drivers completely. I used DDU to accomplish this and even went in and deleted the driver number folders still in the C:/whateverpathitis/NVIDIA. Thinking that this fixed the problem, I reconfigure my RAID, installed a couple of games and began to play them with no problem (yesterday - 8 July 17). I tested a wide variety of games, PUGB, Rocket League, Day of Defeat Source, Neverwinter. Today however, I was playing Rocket League yet again, in a comp game, when my PC did the exact same thing as before. Only this time, I didn't lose my RAID configuration upon hard reset. I did find that for some reason event viewer did not register the driver crash nor did it pick on the sudden power loss to the system.

 

At the time of the first incident I had Precision XOC running and my GPU clock was no where near max and the temps were sitting at a cool roughly 50C.

 

I am at a loss here as to how to fix this problem. Has anyone come across this before / found a fix that didn't require a complete system reinstall?

 

System Specs:

MSI X99A Gaming 7 - BIOS Version H.F

Intel i7 5820k cooled by Corsair H60 AIO

EVGA Geforce GTX 980 FTW - Driver version 382.33 (on step roll back from current at time of post)

16 GB G.skill Ripjaws 4 DDR4 RAM

RAIDed SSDs are ADATA SP600 256GB (x2 in RAID 0)

PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA 750W 80+ Gold

OS - Windows 8.1 on a Kingston V300 SSD

 

[Reglare]

i....uhhhh honestly don't know

[KrayKaz]

Bump for hopes and dreams (and an update).

 

Update - Just upgraded to Windows 10 (yikes, but got it free so eff it right...?).

 

It seems to have somewhat fixed the problem. I still got a driver crash, but that could be due to me not reinstalling the driver after I did the W10 upgrade. I am going to try that when I get home today, but I am still at a loss as to why it was happening before on 8.1.

 

I should point out something that I forgot to mention in my previous post - I am not sure the mobo is the same one as the one I purchased originally. As stated in the first post, the original CPU went out and I had to get it replaced. Well, before that happened, I thought my mobo was the issue and had sent that in for RMA as well. Not sure if they tested and sent me back the same one, or sent a different one. I will am going to see if I can dig up the RMA serial numbers and match them up later as well.