SLI, Nvidia Driver Problems

[chavo12345]

There is extreme stuttering in BF3 when playing, and constant crashes. Sometimes when the computer is restarted, the Nvidia Drivers un-install themselves for some odd reason. I took a look at the device manager, and both 570's have the yellow triangle with an exclamation. And in properties, each card displays a code 43 error. A temporary fix was just to reinstall the drivers, but of course it happened again. Iv'e tried installing older Nvidia drivers, but those drivers have the same issues as well. For now i've just removed one of the cards, so far so good but bf3 still crashes but doesn't stutter as much as it used to before. No other games seem to display the same kind of issue (The witcher 2 plays like butter in SLI maxed out @1080p, Syndicate, Alan Wake as well). Might it be another driver conflicting with the Nvidia drivers? Or just a general hardware issue? Thanks!

 

[daveybrat]

Well right off the bat, the blue screen involves your NTFS file system, so it wasn't a graphics card issue. I would test your hard drive first.

And if you run an SSD, you should be investigating that as the most likely culprit.

 

[Charlie98]

Is your PSU up to running everything including 2 GPU's?

 

[chavo12345]

Well right off the bat, the blue screen involves your NTFS file system, so it wasn't a graphics card issue. I would test your hard drive first.

And if you run an SSD, you should be investigating that as the most likely culprit.

That's what I was thinking, any other tools out there to test out the HDD besides checkdisk tool built in into windows? Might need a fresh install of windows.

Is your PSU up to running everything including 2 GPU's?

Yes it is. It's a 1000watt psu and SLI certified.

 

[compcons]

Although your PSU is capable, it doens't mean it is. In 16 years of working on PC's, the PSUs have had the highest faulre rate (like 5 to 1) copmpared to any other system part. The cheap brands (Ultra, Coolmax, Diablo Tek, etc) are significantly higher. It is definitely worth owning a 20 PSU tester just to be sure as it's a 30 second test.

Another cehap test device is a USB drive with a live version of Ubuntu. Booth to Ubuntu after disconencting your SSD and see if it still crashes. At least you can narrow down the drive and/or OS as problems.

EH

 

[chavo12345]

Although your PSU is capable, it doens't mean it is. In 16 years of working on PC's, the PSUs have had the highest faulre rate (like 5 to 1) copmpared to any other system part. The cheap brands (Ultra, Coolmax, Diablo Tek, etc) are significantly higher. It is definitely worth owning a 20 PSU tester just to be sure as it's a 30 second test.

Another cehap test device is a USB drive with a live version of Ubuntu. Booth to Ubuntu after disconencting your SSD and see if it still crashes. At least you can narrow down the drive and/or OS as problems.

EH

Thanks for the reply, I seemed to have solved the issue just by re-installing windows, but of course another issue came up. When in SLI it stutters like crazy in bf3 now, and it crashes now still (bf3). Sometimes when I restart the computer, the Nvidia drivers seem to un-install themselves. I took a look at the device manager, and both 570's have the yellow triangle with an exclamation. And in properties, each card displays a code 43 error. A temporary fix was just to reinstall the drivers, but of course it happened again. Iv'e tried installing older Nvidia drivers, but those drivers have the same issues as well. For now i've just removed one of the cards, so far so good but bf3 still crashes but doesn't stutter as much as it used to before. Might it be another driver conflicting with the Nvidia drivers? Or just a general hardware issue? Thanks!