Curious about video driver crash requiring long system off-time
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This isn't a problem I can't work around but it made me curious to see if anyone knows the answer.

Got a Windows box (hey I need video games) with a NVIDIA 980Ti SC in it.  When the video driver pukes out and resets, my hashes/second drop by about 2/3rds.  Normal speed is about 277 kH/s, after a video driver reset, it drops to about 80 kH/s.  If I shut down the computer, wait a little while and restart it, I'm still stuck at 80k.  If I shut it down overnight, it tends to come back up at 270k again.  This happens on both Win7 and Win10.  Most recent drivers.

Its almost like the video card gets pissed and complains.  Its not running overly hot (79c) and the fans aren't even running at more than 50% or so.  I'm curious what would happen that would make the video card need such a long rest?  Anyone know?  I can't imagine is still has residual heat after being off for 2hrs, but yet it comes back slow.  After 10 hours it is happy.  Perhaps some breaker gets set or something?

As a random fact, I can't run a benchmark at all without it crashing.  As soon as it gets to the third or fourth test it crashes.

Weird


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Curious about video driver crash requiring long system off-time - by hashhampster - 11-18-2015, 02:33 PM