Dyrnwyn Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Setup 2 x 1900x1200 monitors Rampage III Extreme 2 x EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Superclocked i7 960 @ 4ghz Dominator 12g ram @ 9/9/9/24 vista 64 2 x 1TB drives in RAID 1 Hx 1000 Corsair Power Supply And this Water Cooler with triple radiator. Corsair 800D So this is a new issue...I have removed and replaced nvidia drivers and reinstalled Steam. This does not happen with all games but it has happened with MW2, and with Farcry 2 benchmarks (not Rage, which is also graphically intensive, though Skyrim just blew up). Playing at 1900x1200 on a single monitor. A few weeks ago, out of nowhere, some of my games started crashing to desktop literally seconds after they launched. Dawn of War II is a good example...would crash at the launch screen for no reason. This would happen when SLI was enabled but not when it was disabled. So I swapped the two cards as a test and the problem went away for DOWII, but it stayed for a couple of other games, like MW2. I uninstalled my nvidia drivers and reinstalled and the problem remains. I am actually going to install Windows 7 this weekend to see what happens but this final instance I find most troubling. And again, note, that I can play RAGE maxed out with no issues but MW2 crashes to a restart with an with an error 116 5-10 minutes into play. I've run a Farcry 2 Benchmark many times on ultra settings. Run it without SLI, no problem. Run it with SLI, and it runs the first pass fine, then crashes right after the second begins. GPU temps at 85 (driving 2 displays but displaying test on one) and fan at 67%. I just think if it was a card issue it would crash right away, not right after the second pass starts with consistent temperature. Anyone have any insight here? I am going to do a Windows 7 install to wipe the slate clean but just want to know if I am missing something. Again...had not had this problem until recently, and the crash reports back as a video driver error, nothing else. Could this be a power supply issue? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanutz94 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 The two 580's use about 330watts each at max load. So that is only about 650watts total. You should have plenty of power for your system. What are your voltages being reported in your BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhawn Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 your problem is Nvidia drivers, just go to the nvidia forum and read all the driver problems. i found my 2 GTX 580's run perfect and trouble free with Nvidia driver version 275.33. try it, make sure you perform a clean driver install, the guide can be found in the Nvidia forums under Geforce GTX and ION drivers, it will be in page 1 of the first sticky under that section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samarlian Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Psu fine I run 2 x Gtx 480 on my Hx1000w which draws more power than your 580's its defo a driver issue as it happens to me unless I set fans to 70% to keep temps down = no crash I use evga precision Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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