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Hello,

I found out that my card GPU boosts to over 2000mhz in games and makes the driver crash (while it should only go to 1474mhz per manufacturer).
Can you help me find out a vbios (OEM nvdia ?) that will work for me and how safe it is ?
Or some vbios edit to lower GPU clock speed by -110mhz , this appears to be enough in MSI Afterburner to stop my crashes, but i want a permanent fix...
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Many thanks in advance!!!
 

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Hello,

I found out that my card GPU boosts to over 2000mhz in games and makes the driver crash (while it should only go to 1474mhz per manufacturer).
Can you help me find out a vbios (OEM nvdia ?) that will work for me and how safe it is ?
Or some vbios edit to lower GPU clock speed by -100mhz , this appears to be enough in MSI Afterburner to stop my crashes, but i want a permanent fix...
I also have the original BIOS pre-update somewhere

MY RIG :

PSU Seasonic M12II-520 EVO Edition Bronze, 520W, PFC Activ
i5-6600K, 4200 MHz (42 x 100)
MSI Armor 1070 8GB OC
ASRock Z170 Extreme4
2 x Corsair 8 GB DDR4



Many thanks in advance!!!
Are you 100 % sure that the clock is the culprit? I doubt that. Why not try the fix offered on the interweb? The 1447 is you base clock. The 2000 MHz boost is not unusual.
If you have tried to completely remove your driver and re-installed from Nvidia then a bios edit could be a solution and somebody here might be willing to help. Upload it to TPU via GPU-Z and now that you have it open take a SS of the front page and post it here.

Edit: Sorry I didn't see you uploaded it somewhere else.
 

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Are you 100 % sure that the clock is the culprit? I doubt that. Why not try the fix offered on the interweb? The 1447 is you base clock. The 2000 MHz boost is not unusual.
If you have tried to completely remove your driver and re-installed from Nvidia then a bios edit could be a solution and somebody here might be willing to help. Upload it to TPU via GPU-Z and now that you have it open take a SS of the front page and post it here.

Edit: Sorry I didn't see you uploaded it somewhere else.
Hello thanks for the reply!

Well i tried DDU, then windows reinstall, then another PSU, then a couple of Windows registry hacks to increase timeout time. I moved the video to another slot on the MB i tried to clean the contacts of the video card. I then updated to the newest vbios any other ideas ?
 
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Hello thanks for the reply!

Well i tried DDU, then windows reinstall, then another PSU, then a couple of Windows registry hacks to increase timeout time. I moved the video to another slot on the MB i tried to clean the contacts of the video card. I then updated to the newest vbios any other ideas ?
Not really. You are in the mercy of the vbios editors then.
Edit: I realised that your model normally doesn't boost above 2000 MHz. Even the X just touched 2000. I have one in a box somewhere. Most owners will like to test your bios I could imagine.
 
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Yeah i hope i can find something

btw Found my original bios :)
 

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Yeah i hope i can find something

btw Found my original bios :)
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I had three 970 MSIs each had a different bios so either it evolved or MSI tailored the bios to the quality of the hardware. I doubt that they would release a bios that would crash a stock setting but I could be naive. Did you have the card from new?
 

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Yes pretty much 3 years now, but once i discovered MSI afterburner i forgot about the issue, recently update win10 to 1903 and had the issue and took me a while to remember what i did to fix it :D
And at that time no one was editing bioses :D
 
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OK so problems since day one. There are three bios versions in the database but they are all 1557 MHz core. I think we need to see GPU-Z frontpage showing your GPU.
 
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The three bios' HERE are older. You could try one.....
I'm a bit puzzled that your GPU clock is lower than default, same goes for boost clock. They should be identical for this model.
 

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The three bios' HERE are older. You could try one.....
I'm a bit puzzled that your GPU clock is lower than default, same goes for boost clock. They should be identical for this model.
I saw that i think it's the MSI afterburner that i have on windows startup :)
 
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I think mine was
MSINV330MH.1Z1 - Version: 86.04.50.00.2C
original one.
The other two are different however, do you think i should risk it ?
You are planing to do a bios "update" anyway, so.....
I wouldn't but mainly because I newer tried and the gain as I see it is small. I assume that if you keep a working bios on a stick it can't go completely wrong. There are people around here that can help if you fail the first time.
 

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Well, tested ...2C seems to be most stable but still it crashed...
Figured out that the most stable GPU clock is -130mhz. now i need to edit the vbios somehow...
 

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Hello got it working with an MSI BIOS non OC , that they gave me after a i raised a ticket.
Maybe its just aging of my card or i have some weird component that is messing my boost speeds.

Been stress testing it all day no issues ... wierd one.

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That's extremely odd, the whole point of GPU Boost is that it's not supposed to boost to frequencies it knows it cannot sustain. I suspect your card may be faulty, especially since 1911MHz is the lowest boost clock I've ever seen - even my crappy card (also an Armor OC) can sustain ~1950MHz indefinitely. How old is your card?

The only time I've ever seen the nvlddkm crash/BSoD on this card is after I installed one of the buggy NVIDIA drivers, and had to DDU and jump between various driver verions for a few hours until I found one that was stable again.
 

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Well its about 3 years i tested with another RAM another slot on the MB another PSU, disconnecting everything. Pretty much a lot of testings. Just haven't put the card into another machine :D
But if you search the web i am not alone...
 
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