[wkw427]

Every so often I my drivers crash. Brand new card, a GTX 560...

I thought it was just bad drivers, so I downgraded to the previous version, 285.xx to 280.xx but it still happens.. It isn't even when the GPU is in much use, either.

Any ideas?

 

[efx8]

Is the card overclocked?

Make sure in Nvidia control panel>3D Settings>Set physx configuration>select a physx processor> your card is selected

 

[wkw427]

Is the card overclocked?

Make sure in Nvidia control panel>3D Settings>Set physx configuration>select a physx processor> your card is selected

No, not OC'd in the slightest. And yes, it was selected there.

I've also rolled back to using the 875.xx drivers... After rolling back to the 880

 

[efx8]

There are actually 290 beta drivers out which could be worth testing just to see if you still get the driver crash NVIDIA DRIVERS 290.53 BETA

Also is it completely random or when you are for example browsing?

What power supply do you have?

 

[wkw427]

I have a Corsair 600w. I highly doubt I'm stressing the power supply though, only the graphics card and two disk drives in the machine.

I've only encountered the crashes when I'm just browsing the web. I have yet to encounter one during a game, and I've run furmark for about 15 minutes and it didn't crash either.

I'll try the 290 beta drivers if I get a crash with the 275 ones

 

[dai]

with the 560 you need to go to a 750w hx,tx,ax model

 

[efx8]

I've only encountered the crashes when I'm just browsing the web.

What browser? I've seen a lot of driver related issues with Firefox.

 

[wkw427]

with the 560 you need to go to a 750w hx,tx,ax model

That is not what nvidia's site says.. and even so, the card shouldn't be drawing over 600w when idle. I've had my old system crash on the rare occasion when playing games for a long periods of time, but idle, it was always rock solid.

What browser? I've seen a lot of driver related issues with Firefox.

Yes.. firefox.. :\

 

[dai]

nvidia can only say what the the card pulls they have no idea what you are running in your

system

whatever they state on the box for the card add 40% for the rest of the system

 

[wkw427]

That still doesn't explain why I can play Patrician 4 or Dungeon Defenders for three hours and have no stability issues, while on the other hand, leaving the machine idle crashes the drivers..

 

[efx8]

If I was you I would completely remove firefox and all its plugins and get a browser such as Chrome which is faster and more secure than firefox anyway. That should fix your crashes as the drivers will have nothing to conflict with.

 

[CEM]

Did you check your optional windows update on the Machine.?

 

[wkw427]

Did you check your optional windows update on the Machine.?

Which one? when I installed windows I downloaded all available updates. Was there a specific update that conflicted with the drivers?

 

[CEM]

Please run check update again from update window. If you have any OPTIONAL updates. Please run updates

 

[wkw427]

Only OPTIONAL updates I have listed right now are internet explorer 9, and microsoft security essentials definition update.. But I'll install the update anyway

 

[CEM]

You may go to website http://www.city-tech.org - Professional.Tools - Davie, FL and download hardware test and stresstest to your pc and install run

 

[wkw427]

You may go to website http://www.city-tech.org - Professional.Tools - Davie, FL and download hardware test and stresstest to your pc and install run

Video tests passed with no errors.

 

[Tyree]

Please elaborate on "my drivers crash". Do you get an error message relating to that?
Your PSU is a "decent" unit but it is underpowered for the GPU.

 

[wkw427]

To paraphrase,
"Nvidia Display Driver 285.xx/280.xx Has Stopped Responding and Successfully Recovered"

Little thing on the system tray pops up.. Clicking on it hides it. Can't get any more information from it when it happens, either

 

[efx8]

If it only happens while browsing its a conflict with firefox, either take my advice or if you really want to be using it try some solutions to fix the conflict with firefox itself i.e Turn off the hardware acceleration within firefox.