- May 10, 2002
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Greetings, all! A bit of a problem. I just assembled a new rig which included the MSI Twin Frozr 560Ti. Everything is brand new and seems wonderfully stable except for the video card. I've tried the latest drivers and I've tried older drivers, I've tried overclocking and I've tried underclocking, I've even tried disabling PCI Spread Spectrum in the BIOS to no real avail. Last night, as an example, I was working in Painter 11 for 4 hours and experienced 24 or more such "lock ups" where the screen freezes in place while my audio continues playing unabated. Sometimes, I can leave it and it comes back on it's own, some times I have to Ctrl+Alt+Delete and click "Start Task Manager" and that seems to magically revitalize it, sometimes the whole thing simply hard resets and I lose everything.
The problem seems to be widely spread enough with this card that I considered trading this in for a 6950 until I found several 6950 owners having the exact same problem. Also, it's not isolated to any specific occasion - that I can determine. I've had it happen watching a YouTube video, working in Painter, or especially gaming. Rarely happens in Borderlands, happens shortly and permanently in Starcraft II. Max temps in a game are usually 55 with 72 being the hottest I've seen after 10 minutes of Furmark.
I did find one post here suggesting an increase in voltage via Afterburner but no one replied to say it worked for them:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=197597
I've also seen a dozen other such posts claiming fixes that are usually contradicted in the first reply.
Anyhow, thanks for reading all of that. My PSU is a Corsair 650, processor is a AM3 965, everything is stock (gave up on overclocking some years ago). I had thought maybe a Radeon would be a better fit with my processor/mobo? I figured I'd turn to the experts before I ship it back (works a real charm when it works).
EDIT: I've seen this mentioned elsewhere as well. It may be relevant to note I'm using dual monitors (or it may not be).
Thanks for your time!
- Chaz
The problem seems to be widely spread enough with this card that I considered trading this in for a 6950 until I found several 6950 owners having the exact same problem. Also, it's not isolated to any specific occasion - that I can determine. I've had it happen watching a YouTube video, working in Painter, or especially gaming. Rarely happens in Borderlands, happens shortly and permanently in Starcraft II. Max temps in a game are usually 55 with 72 being the hottest I've seen after 10 minutes of Furmark.
I did find one post here suggesting an increase in voltage via Afterburner but no one replied to say it worked for them:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=197597
I've also seen a dozen other such posts claiming fixes that are usually contradicted in the first reply.
Anyhow, thanks for reading all of that. My PSU is a Corsair 650, processor is a AM3 965, everything is stock (gave up on overclocking some years ago). I had thought maybe a Radeon would be a better fit with my processor/mobo? I figured I'd turn to the experts before I ship it back (works a real charm when it works).
EDIT: I've seen this mentioned elsewhere as well. It may be relevant to note I'm using dual monitors (or it may not be).
Thanks for your time!
- Chaz
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