Do you have an image of what it looks like that you can post?
Does this happen only in Elite Dangerous?
If so is your game patched up to the current Patch?
Have you asked the same question on Elite Dangerous support site?
 
Why do you do Driver Install this way "DDU in Safe Mode & install driver in Safe Mode"
Why do you go into Safe Mode, are you on Windows 8?

Have you tried all available GPU drivers sets 344.11 through 347.52 to see if they all produce the same issue? Have you tried manually setting and running the GPU fan at maximum speed using msi afterburner to see if it helps correct the white/black screen? Have you tried downclocking the video card?

Have tried all drivers, yes.
I've not tried the fan at max.  I have just started using Precision X to use it's auto fan feature and will see how that goes.
I've not tried downclocking the vidoecard.  Again, this has happened with the original AND with this RMA replacement.
 
I tend to agree bsmegreg. But I'm getting no feedback from Frontier (Elite Dangerous) or GeForce. EVGA stands behind their product, however.

Can't seem to post a link cleanly, sorry.

Do you have the latest BIOS? If you replicate the problem and let your PC sit for 5min, reboot, is there a crash dump or do you know if you have any crash dump files? I'm aware of a lot of NVIDEA driver issues and bluescreens which are black due to driver crash and I wouldn't doubt if that is your issue. It's very clear by the black screen that your drivers crashed, installing new/clean drivers did not help suggesting it may be an issue you cannot fix. (Unless NVIDEA does)

Weird.... It's still probably the driver though and if it's not gonna work than its not gonna work, maybe if you rolled it back to a older driver it may work. Otherwise, you can wait and cross your fingers that nvidea fixes the issues with there drivers/stability.

I'll be watching this thread. I've been having the same issues with my ACX 2.0 and Elite. I also didn't realize at first that the fans stop spinning when under like... 60c I think it is? I checked after a crash in Elite and noticed they weren't spinning and freaked out initially. Enough to re-seat my card. Had even contemplated sending it in before I found out about the fan stuff online. From now on I'm just gonna have Precision X handle the cooling with a custom fan curve... It just weirds me out that they would power down when not under load.

I believe that, by default, if the card's under somewhere around 60 degrees the fans do shut off. I suggest using Precision X or MSI's afterburner to create a fan curve/setting you like as well as dropping the GPU clock a bit.

I have the same problem with the EGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0 in games like Assetto Corsa, Game Stock Car Extreme, Formel1 2014, i dont own Elite so can't say about that. In all the games i get a random grey screen with sound continuing, then drops to desktop with Nvidia display driver stopped responding...  I have tried the same as you different drivers, total reinstall, checking bios and the usual stuff. only thing that will stop the crash is downclocking the GPU. I can run 3dmark and other benchmarks for hours without errors... real games crashes using stock settings.
 
maby they put standard 980's in the 980's SuperClocked boxes by mistake :-P
 
Not sure if i should RMA or wait and hope its a driver problem.. its about a month old now. 

Hi!
I have the same problem and looking in the Event viewer shows the driver crashing (message: Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered).
I see that the game goes smooth and using base clock (1265Mhz, 1.068V) or less, but when entering witch-space the clock goes to Boost-clock (1392MHz, 1.206V) and ramdomly crash, (it goes to boost-clock when inside hangar too, but don't crash)
The down-clocking you mention is 51%!?
I'm working with Frontier in a ticket, to see if they can track the problem (already tryed clean-install back the drivers up to 347.09).

*side note - Don't ever install the drivers in SAFE mode .
 
ALong with this COPY/PASTE from each driver release -- ""
 
Do Not Use Windows Rollback for Graphics Drivers To reinstall a previous or older NVIDIA graphics driver, do not use the Windows rollback feature. This method will not reliably restore all the previous driver files. Instead, use the Windows Add and Remove programs to remove the current driver, and then install the older driver using setup.exe. Uninstalling Drivers Using Device Manager is Not Supported Issue On all supported versions of Microsoft Windows, uninstalling the NVIDIA driver using the Windows Device Manager may not remove associated files or applications. Explanation Microsoft has confirmed that this behavior is by design. If you wish to uninstall the NVIDIA driver, it is recommended that you do so using Add and Remove programs. See the Microsoft KB article 2278714. ""
 
...and this also -- ""
 What is TDR? Windows Vista has a new feature called Timeout Detection and Recovery (TDR). TDR attempts to detect problematic situations and recover to a functional desktop dynamically. In prior operating systems these situations would have resulted in a system freeze and forced customers to reboot their PC. More information about this Vista feature can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/displ...dm_timeout.mspx. Therefore, when you see the TDR error message "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered", you know that the display driver is being reset without requiring a reboot. 



Why does it happen? TDRs can occur for a variety of reasons, many of which are unrelated to the graphics card or graphics driver. Since Vista launched, NVIDIA has been working hard to address TDRs issues that are specific to the graphics driver. Last year, we set up the NVIDIA Vista Quality Assurance Site to record and address user issues:http://www.nvidia.com/object/vistaqualityassurance.html. Since that time, we have resolved a majority of the issues specific to the graphics driver and have also worked directly with Microsoft to release five Vista hotfixes, all of which are now part of Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). If customers are still experiencing issues, we recommend that they continue to file issues at the quality assurance site. We also recommend that customers look carefully into the wide range of other causes of TDR issues such as overclocked components, incorrect component compatibility and settings (especially memory configuration and timings), defective parts (memory modules, motherboards, etc.), insufficient system cooling, and insufficient system power. Throughout the forums, there are numerous reports of hardware solutions to TDRs.  ""
 
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/389688/geforce-drivers/nvidia-statement-on-tdr-errors-display-driver-nvlddmkm-stopped-/
 
Lots to read there ...

Ahhh..., Ok, will try underclocking a little (I was thinking to lower it to make the new boost speed equal to the actual base clock).
After looking the specs of plain gtx980 will try a the same base clock speed at 1126Mhz
Thanks!

@lrjfamily
 
Since you had to downclock your card to gain stability I would highly recommend you RMA your card. You shouldn't have to downclock your card to gain stability, the card should be 100% stable at factory clocks.

I did RMA my first one.  I've been using this one since. It's serial number's lower than the one I had. *Shrug*
 
I owe them a call to keep the ticket moving with info.