Pausing GTX 560 Ti causes graphics lock-up

It seems that a lot of GPU problems revolve around specific versions of drivers. Though NVidia has their own support structure, you can often learn from information reported by others who fold.

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Pausing GTX 560 Ti causes graphics lock-up

Post by Sahkolihaa »

When pausing my GTX 560 Ti after it's been folding for around 7 hours, graphics seem to lock up. Yesterday my mouse pointer still moved but nothing else would respond while today, not even my mouse would move. The system doesn't seem to lock up as far as I'm aware since the 9800GT Eco I have folding can still be heard folding (it makes that high pitched squeal, so it's easy to tell if that card is folding or not).

I have Aero in composite mode (aka non-basic) and I'm running the 305.67 OpenGL 4.3 beta driver.

Any ideas as to why pausing the 560 Ti is causing my graphics to hard lock?
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Re: Pausing GTX 560 Ti causes graphics lock-up

Post by P5-133XL »

Log please.

I haven't seen this one before.
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Re: Pausing GTX 560 Ti causes graphics lock-up

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Related to the squeal, please see these related threads: viewtopic.php?f=67&t=21481&p=214899 and viewtopic.php?f=59&t=16675&p=165746
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Sahkolihaa
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Re: Pausing GTX 560 Ti causes graphics lock-up

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P5-133XL wrote:Log please.

I haven't seen this one before.
Log: http://pastebin.com/kHKGvW95
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P5-133XL
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Hardware configuration: Machine #1:

Intel Q9450; 2x2GB=8GB Ram; Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 Motherboard; PC Power and Cooling Q750 PS; 2x GTX 460; Windows Server 2008 X64 (SP1).

Machine #2:

Intel Q6600; 2x2GB=4GB Ram; Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 Motherboard; PC Power and Cooling Q750 PS; 2x GTX 460 video card; Windows 7 X64.

Machine 3:

Dell Dimension 8400, 3.2GHz P4 4x512GB Ram, Video card GTX 460, Windows 7 X32

I am currently folding just on the 5x GTX 460's for aprox. 70K PPD
Location: Salem. OR USA

Re: Pausing GTX 560 Ti causes graphics lock-up

Post by P5-133XL »

I don't see anything wrong in the log other than there is nothing in the log after the second pause (The entire computer crashed?). The first pause, was unpaused just fine, so obviously it does not happen every time. Anything more that you can tell me to enlighten?
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Sahkolihaa
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Re: Pausing GTX 560 Ti causes graphics lock-up

Post by Sahkolihaa »

Sometimes it does pause perfectly fine, as it has today. I did upgrade my driver to 306.63 yesterday, hopefully that helps.
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Hardware configuration: Machine #1:

Intel Q9450; 2x2GB=8GB Ram; Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 Motherboard; PC Power and Cooling Q750 PS; 2x GTX 460; Windows Server 2008 X64 (SP1).

Machine #2:

Intel Q6600; 2x2GB=4GB Ram; Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 Motherboard; PC Power and Cooling Q750 PS; 2x GTX 460 video card; Windows 7 X64.

Machine 3:

Dell Dimension 8400, 3.2GHz P4 4x512GB Ram, Video card GTX 460, Windows 7 X32

I am currently folding just on the 5x GTX 460's for aprox. 70K PPD
Location: Salem. OR USA

Re: Pausing GTX 560 Ti causes graphics lock-up

Post by P5-133XL »

I'd actually suggest that you spend some time (at least one pass, but overnight would be bettter) running MemTest86+. Invariably, when you pause and/or unpause there is a bunch of processes that will be changing their memory footprint. It is just speculation but when peculiar things start happening, a RAM problem is one of the things I will test first.
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