[Solved] x79 motherboard seems to hate EVGA 1070 GTX, advice would be appreciated.

[Harrod]

I was wondering if anyone had any advice to give me to troubleshoot this problem I am having on the following system.

E5-2690 3.8 processor 8 core/16 threads
Intel DX79TO motherboard
16gb Gskill ram.
1kw PSU.
368.39-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-international-whql drivers
EVGA 1070 GTX FE card.
OS: Windows 7, but 10 does the exact same thing.


I have been noticing that the system will allow you to boot up into windows and do anything, but the moment the card is stressed the entire system is hanging with the GTX 1070 installed.

I have already done a clean install and wiped the drivers a few times with no luck. I've also gotten a 8800gts 320, and a XFX 290x to work fine with it so I'm sure it's got to be some kind of driver issue.

Also the card has been tested on a 1150 based system and it seems to work on that fine on the other system with the same 1kw psu.

Anyone have any advice that would be helpful to figure this out? Would there be any point in rolling the drivers back?

 

[96Firebird]

Out of curiosity, is your motherboard BIOS up-to-date?

 

[Harrod]

Out of curiosity, is your motherboard BIOS up-to-date?

Yep, it's the highest one that I can get off of the intel site. The issue is extremely weird as a 8 year old card and 2 year old card seems to work fine without problems.

This thread is mostly a last ditch effort, I may end up just throwing this cpu/mb on ebay and moving to a 6700k system.

 

[24601]

Sounds like classic signs of unstable CPU/DRAM overclock.

 

[Harrod]

Sounds like classic signs of unstable CPU/DRAM overclock.

Most Xeons don't overclock, including this one. I think I got it figured out, I ended up turning a ton of security stuff off in the BIOS as well as hard setting the system to only use Pcie graphics. I guess now I know why the motherboard has 2 stars on newegg.

Still ran into issues, bumped all voltages on the chip up by 10%, since then the lockups have stopped.