Crashes, BSODs.. Need help.

[Deltabluzer 1]

Getting random display crashes, as well as two BSODs so far (screen will flash a few times first) but these are rare. These are only occuring in DayZ. I have zero issues with other games and can loop Heaven for hours so I refuse to believe it's due to an unstable OC.. I've tried re-positioning the SLI bridge, reinstalling windows, updating everything to latest drivers (incl. chipset) and nothing has fixed the problem.

Now I do use the 'Enable SLI' fix in nvidiainspector, so wondering if this could be a possible cause for my issues? My 980s are lightly overclocked and I've tried lowering the OC a bit (to no avail) but like I said, they're stable in everyting else I play, plus I see no point running the game on a single card as I find it unplayable... Is anybody else experiencing crashes, particularly SLI users who use the workaround in NV Inspector? Would really appreciate some help in getting this sorted. Thanks..

 

Basic run down of specs;

3770K @ 4.6GHz

Asus P8Z77 V Deluxe (latest BIOS)

8GB G-Skill 2133Mhz

2x GTX 980 (SLI) - recent additions

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

Edited October 14, 2014 by Deltabluzer

[Baker. 1484]

Getting random display crashes, as well as two BSODs so far (screen will flash a few times first) but these are rare. These are only occuring in DayZ. I have zero issues with other games and can loop Heaven for hours so I refuse to believe it's due to an unstable OC.. I've tried re-positioning the SLI bridge, reinstalling windows, updating everything to latest drivers (incl. chipset) and nothing has fixed the problem.

Now I do use the 'Enable SLI' fix in nvidiainspector, so wondering if this could be a possible cause for my issues? My 980s are lightly overclocked and I've tried lowering the OC a bit (to no avail) but like I said, they're stable in everyting else I play, plus I see no point running the game on a single card as I find it unplayable... Is anybody else experiencing crashes, particularly SLI users who use the workaround in NV Inspector? Would really appreciate some help in getting this sorted. Thanks..

 

Basic run down of specs;

3770K @ 4.6GHz

Asus P8Z77 V Deluxe (latest BIOS)

8GB G-Skill 2133Mhz

2x GTX 980 (SLI) - recent additions

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

 

 

Have you tried not just lowering the OC but running things at stock speeds?

 

If it still happens then I know from experience that BSOD's are 9 times out of 10 cause by either bad drivers or faulty hardware. 

[Deltabluzer 1]

Have you tried not just lowering the OC but running things at stock speeds?

 

If it still happens then I know from experience that BSOD's are 9 times out of 10 cause by either bad drivers or faulty hardware. 

No not yet. I'll give it a go tomorrow and report back but as I said, I can play other games for hours on end, same settings, no problem..

[umberfive 89]

As Bakermensch said, most BSODs are hardware or driver related. Recently my bil (brother-in-law), had similar problems. DayZ and MoH crashed, while Crysis ran fine. In bils case he upgraded his old graphics card shortly after and all problem were gone. Before we checked bils RAM, but no errors were found. It seems that as soon as a game used a specific graphics feature, the game and/or his pc crashed. Shortly before bils pc had some thermal problems. The graphics card might have taken damage from that. Although many components are capable of OC, I wouldn't recommend it. To spare oneself of the possible troubles ahead, just spend more bucks for a better product.