All WU's fail on GTX 970

Skillz · Post by **Skillz** » Wed Jan 11, 2017 10:17 pm

I've been folding on this rig for a while now without any issues. Recently did a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro on a new SSD and I am having all kinds of issues.

First I installed the latest Nvidia drivers. I think they're 376.33. Had issues, so did some Googling to find the hot fix drive for the 10 Series cards. Installed 176.48. Still have issues so I went and found the old driver I originally had installed on the rig before the SSD upgrade. 373.06. Still no luck at all. Every single WU that's download immediately fails.

I tried using DDU to uninstall previous Nvidia drivers and reinstalled 373.06 again, but started to run into a lot of issues. One was the installer was complaining about not being able to create or access some temp file/directory of some sort. So I got around that error by moving the temp directory location directly to c: and got past it. Now the installer gets as far as installing the graphics drivers, but some things don't complete and it fails. After a restart I am at my native resoultion and MSI Afterburner reports the driver 373.06 installed.

I will make a note that when I uninstalled 376.33 and rebooted Windows would automatically reinstall 376.33 no matter what I did. That's when I went to DDU to have the drivers removed in Safe Mode.

Nothing I seem to do fixes this. I know the cards are fine.

edit
Upon more investigating in the log it seems only x21 is immediately dropped. I am currently folding on one of the cards with core x18.

Post by **bruce** » Thu Jan 12, 2017 1:25 am

Downloading the drivers from NVidia and executing that file will give you what you're probably missing. Microsoft doesn't believe in installing OpenCL; NVidia does.

In other words, from FAH's perspective, DDU is broken.

Skillz · Post by **Skillz** » Thu Jan 12, 2017 2:19 am

I'm not sure I am following your suggestion. I downloaded the drivers from Nvidia. Got 376.33. 376.48 and 373.06 all downloaded from Nvidia in that order. All failed. I used DDU as a last resort to try 373.06 one last time, but it resulted in the same result.

According to MSI Afterburner I currently have driver 373.06 installed.

Skillz · Post by **Skillz** » Thu Jan 12, 2017 4:58 am

The issue was not installing SP1 on Windows 7. Issue has been resolved.

Running 373.06 driver.

Post by **bruce** » Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:27 pm

So you're saying the successful sequence goes something like this:
* If necessary, upgrade your OS to at least Windows7 SP1. (We already know that support for WinXP is nonexistent even though it might work.)
* Download the desired version of the drivers from NVidia.
* Run that download. (Rather than use DDU)
* Install FAH software if not already installed.
* (If GPUs.txt doesn't mention your GPU, you'll need to have that file updated.)
* If you have a slot for a GPU that has been removed, delete that slot.
* Add a slot for your GPU unless it was added by the most recent install.
* ENJOY

Post by **bruce** » Thu Jan 12, 2017 7:30 pm

BTW, Windows 10 automatically updates drivers occasionally. If it does, it breaks FAH. I suppose it's using DDU and the profile for NV drivers does not install the files supporting OpenCL. I wonder if that's an issue that Microsoft needs to fix or if it something that NVidia can fix. (Where should we report the problem?)

ComputerGenie · Post by **ComputerGenie** » Thu Jan 12, 2017 9:45 pm

bruce wrote:... I wonder if that's an issue that Microsoft needs to fix or if it something that NVidia can fix. (Where should we report the problem?)

Especially when it comes to drivers, what they need to fix and what they are willing to fix are, usually, mutually exclusive.

SteveWillis · Post by **SteveWillis** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 1:01 am

Yet another reason I'm glad I'm using Linux.

ChristianVirtual · Post by **ChristianVirtual** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 3:01 am

SteveWillis wrote:Yet another reason I'm glad I'm using Linux.

While in principle I agree I also have trouble to install drivers in Linux at times ... just raised two posting in nV forums for Linux on it; but getting off topic

SteveWillis · Post by **SteveWillis** » Fri Jan 13, 2017 12:01 pm

ChristianVirtual wrote: While in principle I agree I also have trouble to install drivers in Linux at times ... just raised two posting in nV forums for Linux on it; but getting off topic

Sure. It took me a while to get it figured out but now it's routine. I posted my method in another recent topic.
viewtopic.php?f=38&t=29528#p291901

Mod Edit: Changed your URL from pointing to the top of that topic to pointing to the actual post at the bottom.

Leonardo · Post by **Leonardo** » Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:27 pm

I thought that newer Nvidia drivers than 373.20 for 9XX and 10XX series Nivida GPUs were not stable for Folding.
Skillz, did you try 373.06?

Leonardo · Post by **Leonardo** » Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:59 pm

Nvidia workaround, "hotfix" 376.48 drivers seem to work.

viewtopic.php?f=80&t=29497

Some reporting here and at EVGA forums that 376.48 will cause a production decrease, as compared to 373.06.

I think I'll stay with 373.06 for a while. Given I don't game, I see no advantage to updating at this point.

UPDATE: Skillz, I apologize. I just re-read your post and see that you have already tried 373.06 and 376.48; and I see that you updated Windows 7.

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