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Re:GeForce GTX 295 not working well and could consider baking? - 2011/04/29 13:39 I understand where you are coming from. I have had problems with Black Ops, Flashpoint Dragon Rising and Bad Company 2. I have just got Armed Assault 2 and that was running fine for over an hour and then crashed, but I don't know if that was a general game crash or linked to the same problem as it froze and I was able to kill the game. These are the problems I get, with Black Ops the game freezes, then screen goes blank as my monitor loses signal, then computer freezes and I have to reset.

With Flashpoint the game freezes and I can kill it fine. And Bad Company 2 the game goes completely white, it sounds like the game is still working, and I can move etc, but the screen is just a white glare. I can just kill the game. I have also had a few times when the screen went black while on the desktop, nothing 3D going on and monitor loses signa and get the error DirectX encountered an unrecoverable error or NVIDIA kernel mode driver version stopped working and has recovered.

I have tried using older drivers, driver sweeper, standing on one leg, underclocking, etc. My GeForce 8800 GTS works like a dream so I know it is related to the GeForce GTX 295 one way or another. Oh, I have also tried tweaking game config files and tried running the card on one GPU, disabling PhysX. This only seems to stop the whole computer from freezing than anything else. So, as you can see baking seems my last resort. I have been looking into it and it seems quite successful.

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Re:GeForce GTX 295 not working well and could consider baking? - 2011/04/29 13:41 Okay, I am going to try running some 3D benchmarks again as I cannot remember how these went last time. So stay tuned for some updates very soon.

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Re:GeForce GTX 295 not working well and could consider baking? - 2011/04/29 14:13 Just ran 3DMark Vantage benchmark at 1920x1080 resolution with no problems. I did ran some monitoring tools for the temps and other behaviors of the system and all seemed to have run fine. Would appreciate if anyone gets time to look.

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Re:GeForce GTX 295 not working well and could consider baking? - 2011/04/29 14:43 You are going to need to run it multible times to make sure its running stable. Black Ops and Bad Company 2 are two of the games I had the same problem. Bad Company 2 is now working after playing around in the settings file. Also I had problems with Medal of Honor Tier 1 Central approx same as well and Modern Warfare 2 but all these games work with my other system powered with two GeForce 8600M GT's working in SLI config.

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Re:GeForce GTX 295 not working well and could consider baking? - 2011/04/29 14:55 Basically, the max temp for both cards were 85°C and I will run a few more times and see if it makes any difference. Thanks for your input, much appreciated.

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Re:GeForce GTX 295 not working well and could consider baking? - 2011/04/29 15:35 Thanks for trying 3DMark Vantage and as you state that worked fine, can you also try Furmark? Cause Furmark might stress it higher for a longer period and increase the temps even further than the 85°C max you have seen with running 3DMark Vantage. And sorry for being perhaps rude but the attachment didn't really add any value, except that indeed max temps reach was 85°C and that the fan speed increased accordingly. Nothing new nor strange about that really.

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Re:GeForce GTX 295 not working well and could consider baking? - 2011/04/29 16:34 Mavke wrote:
Thanks for trying 3DMark Vantage and as you state that worked fine, can you also try Furmark? Cause Furmark might stress it higher for a longer period and increase the temps even further than the 85°C max you have seen with running 3DMark Vantage.
I only submitted the log just to prove that there were no temp problems, voltage glitches, etc. I seem to be able to run 3DMark again and again without missing a beat. I have tried Furmark before, and that always freezes my computer, cause the temps get close to 100°C. I am still so very confused.

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Re:GeForce GTX 295 not working well and could consider baking? - 2011/04/29 16:56 Okay, got an error. Now 3DMark Vantage got about 5 seconds into the first test, froze and then the screen went blank and I had the display driver stopped responding and has recovered. The display driver NVIDIA windows kernel mode driver stopped responding and has successfully recovered error. I did not have 3DMark set to extreme properly, which is why it ran okay before.

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Re:GeForce GTX 295 not working well and could consider baking? - 2011/04/29 19:20 Try running it in performance mode a couple of times. I used to get the same message when I was doing some overclocking, as soon as I came to the point that I ran the GPU higher than certain clock or memory over a certain setting. And it was because the card didn't get enough voltage, so Mavke bumped my voltage and then it ran great. So try to bump the voltage for 3D to a bit higher but don't change the clocks and see what that gives. By the way are you sure your power supply is giving enough power to the card because that would show up as the same as if the voltage setting isn't high enough. When you bump it then run extreme settings again.

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Re:GeForce GTX 295 not working well and could consider baking? - 2011/04/30 10:22 DemonT wrote:
I seem to be able to run 3DMark again and again without missing a beat. I have tried Furmark before, and that always freezes my computer, cause the temps get close to 100°C. I am still so very confused.
That is a good thing already but since the temps don't get higher than 85°C that means the card isn't getting too hot, while with Furmark you are stressing the GeForce GTX 295 card all the way up to it's maximum and as you are reaching 100°C reported by software you actually will be having a higher temp, which could be close to 110°C or even a bit higher. And that is really pushing it, which makes me still wondering if the cooling solution is really doing the best job it can with the right application of thermal paste.

Actually it is one of the first things I generally do, when temps go higher than about 85-90°C to clean the thermal paste and apply new one, but a very thin layer. Like if you would put a paper between the GPU and the cooling heatsink. Doing so did get the temps down in some cases by even 10°C and that really makes a difference but that is just one thing to consider.

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