GeForce GTX 660 keeps crashing

[mitis3]

My PC Specs:

GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 660
CPU: Intel i5-4670K @ 3.40ghz
RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 4GBx2 DDR3
Motherboard: MIS Z97 GAMING 5
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO Basic
PSU: Corsair RM Series RM550
Already own a HDD, taken from previous computer.


Recently bought a new computer, bought all the parts and had a friend put it together, and ever since I keep getting crashes with my GPU. Always the same crashes, screen freezes, audio turns weird and usually have to restart my PC cause of it. Most times I get a little pop-up saying Nvidia windows kernel mode driver has stopped working and has been recovered or something along those lines.
I have already sent back 1 GPU and received a new one which has the same problems. I tried installing my drivers on the hdd instead of ssd didnt work, I tried underclocking, didnt work, did a clean install windows on ssd, didnt work. I'm out of options and would really love some help with this matter.

 

[Phill3990]

Hey there,

A small detail to point out. Your title says GTX660 but in your description it says GTX 600

Sorry to point it out, but knowing this will help members to help with your problem more efficiently

Phill3990

 

[mitis3]

thanks for informing me about it

 

[JDobbsy1987]

I will see if i can find the Microsoft article about this but if i remember rightly you need to edit and entry in the registry... it's not actually the the card drivers but Windows... it is due to a time out error of some kind.

I had a similar issue with an AMD card

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Well... struggling to find the article i used but this may help (i believe it's more a workaround than an actual fix...)

Check the 2nd bullet point called TdrDelay in the below list (click the link)
I increased this value to 30 i think and that resolved the issue for me (the default value is 2)

TDR Registry Keys (Windows Drivers)

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jamie

 

[AddRAM]

nvidia just put out a new driver, install it if you haven`t yet.

http://www.nvidia.de/download/driverResults.aspx/77233/de

 

[mitis3]

I did install the new drivers but that didnt help my problem

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Another thing to add... maybe check this link out - "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" error in Windows 7 or Windows Vista

 

[mitis3]

I think it solved it with the TdrDelay registry key thing, I upped it to 15 seconds and no crashes as of yet, I'll keep playing and see if it does but thanks for the help anyway

 

[JDobbsy1987]

Glad that resolved the issue.

Regards,
Jamie

 

[BudViking]

My PC Specs:

GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 660
CPU: Intel i5-4670K @ 3.40ghz
RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 4GBx2 DDR3
Motherboard: MIS Z97 GAMING 5
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO Basic
PSU: Corsair RM Series RM550
Already own a HDD, taken from previous computer.


Recently bought a new computer, bought all the parts and had a friend put it together, and ever since I keep getting crashes with my GPU. Always the same crashes, screen freezes, audio turns weird and usually have to restart my PC cause of it. Most times I get a little pop-up saying Nvidia windows kernel mode driver has stopped working and has been recovered or something along those lines.
I have already sent back 1 GPU and received a new one which has the same problems. I tried installing my drivers on the hdd instead of ssd didnt work, I tried underclocking, didnt work, did a clean install windows on ssd, didnt work. I'm out of options and would really love some help with this matter.

I am experiencing the EXACT same symptoms after a recent upgrade, audio glitches, then screen locks up and goes black, then a message that the driver has stopped working.

 

[Dude]

Post 5 fixed it for the op, give it a try

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/339699-geforce-gtx-660-keeps-crashing.html#post2843043

 

[Janus]

Hello I have a windows 8.1 Pro pc with a GTX660 and my graphics driver keeps crashing I would like to know how to install those TDR files, and see if that would fix my problem. If anyone could help then that would be great

 

[jasontseng]

Well... struggling to find the article i used but this may help (i believe it's more a workaround than an actual fix...)

Check the 2nd bullet point called TdrDelay in the below list (click the link)
I increased this value to 30 i think and that resolved the issue for me (the default value is 2)

TDR Registry Keys (Windows Drivers)

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jamie

Having a similar issues; after updating my GTX 660 Drivers, the screen will go black for a few seconds then come back on. No error messages or anything. Trying to do the TDRKey fix, but am not experienced enough with this to know what I am doing. The link does not give enough info of where I actually make the edits.

I also tried this Black Screen After Installing Latest Driver for Asus Nvidia Geforce GTX 660 Ti on WIndows 7 [Solved] - Asus - Graphics Cards to no avail. Any help on this would be deeply appreciated.

Specs:
MOBO - Fatal1ty
CPU - intel i5 dual core 3.3Ghz
GPU - Nvidia GeForce 660 GTX
RAM - 16GB

 

[mariz]

Better late than never - maybe this will be helpful for those, who are googling it now:

Had similar issues with my GTX660 - GPU crashed (screen went black for few seconds, sound freeze, sometimes restart needed to resolve, sometimes it just went back to normal) - what I did was in MSI Afterburner just turn the GPU Power to 110%, thats it! Problem gone! Well, at least for me! Hope this helps!