I have been experiencing seemingly increasing instability and crashes when playing all games. I've also been experiencing weird issues when just using my PC for normal browsing, etc. Most notable are the full black screen flickers when using Google Chrome. That just started tonight, actually. I had previously experienced no issues when on previous Nvidia drivers, even with all of the recent buggy driver branches.
My GPU is a 3090 FTW3 Ultra, with a Hybrid cooling kit installed. No overclocks, and in the past I have always run a mild undervolt on the card. I am still running an undervolt at this time.
I did a new PC build about a month ago (Alder Lake) and since then I have started having more and more problems.
Most annoying are the random crashes where the game I'm playing just locks up or crashes to desktop with no error. Within the last couple of weeks I've started getting blue screen crashes with the error "VIDEO SCHEDULER INTERNAL ERROR". From what I've found, this is a GPU related crash and doesn't seem related to any other component.
When these blue screen errors occur, I have noticed artifacts on my secondary monitor. Here's an image of what they look like:
https://imgur.com/a/L7rNyRtThe artifacts do eventually disappear after a hard restart, but the fact that they're there makes me think the card is experiencing a major failure of some kind.
I have done multiple driver installs/reinstalls with DDU with no changes really.
I also had thought that the case I had the PC in was keeping my GPU from being fully seated in the PCIE slot (which I do think was actually happening). I rebuilt the PC in a new case where the GPU could actually be fully inserted into the PCIE slot and engage the latch. Things seemed to be all good until I started getting the same old crashes when I sat down to play some games about 25 minutes ago.
Anyone have any thoughts? I really don't want to have to RMA the card but it seems like it's beginning to have some sort of major problem.
I should also mention that previously, I could actually get into a game and actually play it before any crashes occurred. Tonight, when I went to play Halo, I couldn't even get into a game at all. I had 3 complete crashes to desktop and then the blue screen crash with a restart. And then my desktop froze again when I was initially trying to type this all out.
Edit: I am also doing some registry and disk cleanup type checks and whatnot to see if that helps the situation. The full disk repair for the C drive did run itself entirely so it seems like there were some bunk files causing problems? Not really sure. I did have issues with Windows freaking out when I initially built the system (something on the board wasn’t plugged in and the computer got hung up multiple times when Windows was being installed) so I guess it’s possible that was causing problems. But the artifacts and other symptoms do seem entirely GPU related.
And just as another note - I haven’t tried testing with another GPU as of yet.
post edited by HawkOculus - Sunday, February 06, 2022 3:50 AM