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GTX 670 Freezing

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Hi there guys

The problem I'm experiencing with my GTX 670 is when after 2 hours of game play, the game will freeze with a looping sound, then my monitor signal will cut out and after about 30 seconds, it stops freezing and goes back to normal. It doesn't return to the game, but returns to the desktop.

Sometimes it says "Display driver has stop responding" in the corner and the Geforce experience will be gone from the hidden icon area and have to be restarted.

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Nvidia Driver of 335.23

So is this the first signs of a dying graphics card, or am I looking at a possible driver issue by Nvidia?
 
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Run Guru's Driver sweeper, and reinstall the latest drivers first.
If it still happens, it's not drivers.

Could be an unstable OC, if you have your card overclocked. Display drivers stop working when you GPU simply can't maintain the Core/Memory clocks on the voltage your card is recieving. Try increasing your voltage on your card through software.
 
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as RCoon write, try that and undo the oc, if it's factory overclocked try underclock it down to stock speed or crank up the voltage alittle with MSI Afterburner.
 
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I have another opinion, try only installing the:
1] Graphics Driver
2] Audio Driver
3] PhysX Driver

I've had crashes with the 3D drivers on some driver versions.
Recently I had a crash to desktop using the 337.61 beta in the above configuration as soon as the game went into play mode. The game loaded I made my selections then hit play game and it crashed.
I have not investigated further at this point as it is a rarely played FPS game.
 
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It's only been doing it recently after I've installed the newer drivers. I've had the card 1 year without problems until recently. I think it might be drivers so i will run drive sweeper and get newer drivers and see from there.
 

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Is your card overclocked? My previous stable overclock on my GTX670 became unstable with the recent drivers, I had to back down my overclock slightly.
 
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Is your card overclocked? My previous stable overclock on my GTX670 became unstable with the recent drivers, I had to back down my overclock slightly.

Question: Even if you have an Overclock, I thought the newer cards self throttle?
In my case, I don't have an OC on the Graphics.
What about reapplying fresh TIM if the card has had heavy/hard use.
 
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I thought the newer cards self throttle?

They do (thermally), but they can still get driver crashes if the voltage is insufficient.
 
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They do (thermally), but they can still get driver crashes if the voltage is insufficient.

Can you "tune" the voltage independently to overcome the limitation within the overclock?
 
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Can you "tune" the voltage independently to overcome the limitation within the overclock?

Yes, using the power limit function within the tuning software (I use EVGA precision), then there is a voltage unlock option, which allow a minimal additional "boost" voltage to be applied, in my case I can reach a maximum of 1.168v with power limit adjustment, and 1.2v with the voltage boost unlock.
 
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In my case, I feel that my crash was due to an incompatibility with the older game and new driver version, as another FPS game (almost as old) had no issue.
It appears that each driver version has its limitations based on ones own personal setup and each game.
In my case both are Steam driven.
I have used Folding@Home as a benchmark with various driver versions in the past as any limitation(s) would lead to a crash. The same goes for OCing a graphics card, which I have not done since using a GTX460.
I had to reapply TIM to the GTX460 as F@H would increase the heat generated substantially. Certain drivers just did not work without crashing.
 
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I've uninstalled the Nvidia display driver, booted up in safe mode to use Drive Sweeper to get rid of all Nvidia Drivers, downloaded and installed the latest Nvidia driver (337.50) and it's still freezing every 2-3 hours or so. Clocks of the GPU are:
(Using Zotac Firestorm)
GPU Clock 954mhz
Memory Clock 6008mhz
VDDC 987Mv
Board Power Limit 100%

Temps are always around 70-80C on all games and with a low idle temperature of 30c.
It also seems to look like it's affecting every single game I play. I play Fifa 14 and the GPU gets to about 50C and it still freezes.
 
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Looking at the GeForce forums it looks like this problem is actually getting mentioned a lot.
 
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