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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
seems to be fixed :D It does look like it is. Cheers. |
Akio Send message Joined: 18 May 11 Posts: 375 Credit: 32,129,242 RAC: 0 |
Nothing appears to be wrong with mine. It's unfortunate I didn't buy two cards when I built this computer. Little did I know they my GTX 460 would be discontinued before I could get the fundage. That's life I guess. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Nothing appears to be wrong with mine. It's unfortunate I didn't buy two cards when I built this computer. Little did I know they my GTX 460 would be discontinued before I could get the fundage. That's life I guess. That's because you have a GTX 460 and not a GT/GTX 6xx as the thread title states. ;-) Cheers. |
Akio Send message Joined: 18 May 11 Posts: 375 Credit: 32,129,242 RAC: 0 |
That's because you have a GTX 460 and not a GT/GTX 6xx as the thread title states. ;-) Oh boy. I need to get my eyes checked. Sorry guys :/ |
Josef W. Segur Send message Joined: 30 Oct 99 Posts: 4504 Credit: 1,414,761 RAC: 0 |
That's because you have a GTX 460 and not a GT/GTX 6xx as the thread title states. ;-) That's OK. Some of the 6xx cards are actually rebranded 4xx or 5xx Fermi cards, others are actually Kepler. Any confusion over what 6xx means can be blamed on NVIDIA. Joe |
spitfire_mk_2 Send message Joined: 14 Apr 00 Posts: 563 Credit: 27,306,885 RAC: 0 |
Nothing appears to be wrong with mine. It's unfortunate I didn't buy two cards when I built this computer. Little did I know they my GTX 460 would be discontinued before I could get the fundage. That's life I guess. I saw some good deals on ebay. One auction was for two gtx460 for 140 or 150 dollars, I think it was buy now price, so no dickering. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
This problem has certainly been fixed with the release of SETI V7. :-D Now if we can just get those people with out of control GTX 560Ti's to fix their rigs. But another problem is starting to rear an ugly head and that is a lot of Radeons are now either just throwing errors or invalids. :-( Cheers. |
Tom* Send message Joined: 12 Aug 11 Posts: 127 Credit: 20,769,223 RAC: 9 |
Yes there does seem to be an extraordinary amount of ATI running SDK 2.5 so many in fact that several times Ive seen two sdk 2.5's validate against one another. That cannot be good science |
Mike Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34258 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80 |
I mentioned it already at beta. I hope Eric can fix this. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13736 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
From the v7 release thread in the News forum- I found this hostid=6343230. From Eric The change to prevent this went in yesterday. Let me know if its still happening. Grant Darwin NT |
Oz Send message Joined: 6 Jun 99 Posts: 233 Credit: 200,655,462 RAC: 212 |
I recently purchased a gtx660 and I am sorry I did. Neither msi afterburner, evga precision or nvidia desktop offer any usable control of the card. I managed to get it running stably with x41zc 5.0, but with the rollout of sah v7 it now is erroring out wu's. When I try to use gpuz to check it [in a failure state] gpuz uses 50% proceesor [one core] and fails to load, a reboot is the only way to fix it. An attempt to load 301.42 driver yields a "no nvidia hardware found" [!?!] message. ANY suggestions leading to a resolution would be greatly appreciated. [currently installed on host 4695891] Member of the 20 Year Club |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I recently purchased a gtx660 and I am sorry I did. Neither msi afterburner, evga precision or nvidia desktop offer any usable control of the card. I managed to get it running stably with x41zc 5.0, but with the rollout of sah v7 it now is erroring out wu's. When I try to use gpuz to check it [in a failure state] gpuz uses 50% proceesor [one core] and fails to load, a reboot is the only way to fix it. An attempt to load 301.42 driver yields a "no nvidia hardware found" [!?!] message. ANY suggestions leading to a resolution would be greatly appreciated. I run 2 of these on my old Q6600 using 314.07 driver plus I have good control over them with EVGA Precision X (though I only use it to run the fan faster). Cheers. |
Oz Send message Joined: 6 Jun 99 Posts: 233 Credit: 200,655,462 RAC: 212 |
Thanks for the reply Wiggo. I have precision X, it lets me set the voltage, any "power" setting from 85 to 110% gives the same clockrate [1175] for a while, then 1050 then 300. Fan speed override only works with precision X open [running]. I guess I was spoiled by afterburner which applies specific voltage, clock and memory clock rates, then can be closed and returns used system memory and processor. The latest version doesn't have any effect on the card at all - clicking apply yields no change. Maybe I need to rma the card. Member of the 20 Year Club |
Claggy Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4654 Credit: 47,537,079 RAC: 4 |
The change as far as I know was to stop v7 work going to hosts with too old a APP runtime, this host has never had AMD v7 work because it is running Boinc 6.12.34, this Boinc doesn't do OpenCL detection so can't supply APP runtime version: Application details for host 6343230 The AMD OpenCL AP problem is maybe a corrupt dll, exit code is: - exit code -1073741515 (0xc0000135), or maybe a total lack of AMD OpenCL support, drivers around that time had the OpenCL driver as an optional download, the AMD OpenCL AP work it's receiving is using the ati_opencl_100 plan class, this uses the assumption that a GPU with driver x will also have OpenCL support, looking at the Cat 10.9 driver page there's no mention of an OpenCL driver being included, Cat 11.1 is required before an OpenCL driver is mentioned as being included, since CAL version 1.4.900 is also shared with Cat 10.12, the minimum driver for this app version should be at least 11.2 (CAL 1.4.1016) Edit: Posted Duplicate to the News thread, since that is where the post i'm replying to came from, and Eric is more likely to Read it there. Claggy |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Thanks for the reply Wiggo. I have precision X, it lets me set the voltage, any "power" setting from 85 to 110% gives the same clockrate [1175] for a while, then 1050 then 300. Fan speed override only works with precision X open [running]. I guess I was spoiled by afterburner which applies specific voltage, clock and memory clock rates, then can be closed and returns used system memory and processor. The latest version doesn't have any effect on the card at all - clicking apply yields no change. Maybe I need to rma the card. I'm just running mine at their default settings, 1100MHz GPU, 6010MHz memory with 1.175v, only running the fan speed locked at 70% instead of auto. Also if you have Precision X ticked for windows start up it works in the back ground without the console. Cheers. |
arkayn Send message Joined: 14 May 99 Posts: 4438 Credit: 55,006,323 RAC: 0 |
I recently purchased a gtx660 and I am sorry I did. Neither msi afterburner, evga precision or nvidia desktop offer any usable control of the card. I managed to get it running stably with x41zc 5.0, but with the rollout of sah v7 it now is erroring out wu's. When I try to use gpuz to check it [in a failure state] gpuz uses 50% proceesor [one core] and fails to load, a reboot is the only way to fix it. An attempt to load 301.42 driver yields a "no nvidia hardware found" [!?!] message. ANY suggestions leading to a resolution would be greatly appreciated. If I remember correctly, you will need a newer driver than that for the installer to recognize the GTX660. I am running 320.00 on both of my machines and it works just fine. |
Terror Australis Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 1817 Credit: 262,693,308 RAC: 44 |
Thanks for the reply Wiggo. I have precision X, it lets me set the voltage, any "power" setting from 85 to 110% gives the same clockrate [1175] for a while, then 1050 then 300. Fan speed override only works with precision X open [running]. I guess I was spoiled by afterburner which applies specific voltage, clock and memory clock rates, then can be closed and returns used system memory and processor. The latest version doesn't have any effect on the card at all - clicking apply yields no change. Maybe I need to rma the card. I found Precision X had issues, including failure to control the 550Ti's properly, high CPU usage (5 to 10%), caused the whole computer to slow down and some other weird effects. I rolled back to an earlier version and the cards and the computer generally were a lot happier. T.A. |
Oz Send message Joined: 6 Jun 99 Posts: 233 Credit: 200,655,462 RAC: 212 |
Thanx T.A., I'll try that. @Wiggo, I'm experiencing what T.A. refers to - I have no control of the cards clock[s] or fan. It runs wherever it wants, I can control the fan, but only if precision is running in the foreground, using ~10% cpu and a wad of ram. As soon as it's closed, the fan reverts to auto - the core clock and memory clock cannot be adjusted at all by any program. I should have spent the extra $100 and bought a 560ti. Sorry for ranting, but I get pretty p.o.ed when I spend a good chunk of change on something that doesn't work as it should or worse, tries to "help" by doing what it thinks you want instead of allowing user control. Member of the 20 Year Club |
bill Send message Joined: 16 Jun 99 Posts: 861 Credit: 29,352,955 RAC: 0 |
I'm confused. You're posting about problems with a nvidia 550 but the machine you referenced to and everything else I looked at said the gpu was a 660. If it really is a 550 could the pc be confused sbout it's gpu and be causing your problems? Edit: never mind, I AM confused. I must of been thinking of another thread. BTW, what version of Precision were you using so I can keep an eye out for it? |
tbret Send message Joined: 28 May 99 Posts: 3380 Credit: 296,162,071 RAC: 40 |
I recently purchased a gtx660 and I am sorry I did. Neither msi afterburner, evga precision or nvidia desktop offer any usable control of the card. I managed to get it running stably with x41zc 5.0, but with the rollout of sah v7 it now is erroring out wu's. When I try to use gpuz to check it [in a failure state] gpuz uses 50% proceesor [one core] and fails to load, a reboot is the only way to fix it. An attempt to load 301.42 driver yields a "no nvidia hardware found" [!?!] message. ANY suggestions leading to a resolution would be greatly appreciated. I admit that I do not have a 660. I have 660Tis and 670s. Yes, you are correct, you cannot control the card the way you used to be able-to, but that shouldn't keep you from enjoying the card. The *first* thing I would do is get rid of all of your programs that control the card. What I mean is uninstall all of them and wipe the directories out. Like you, I've used Afterburner, NVIDIA Inspector, and Precision, most of the time I've had more than one installed. On more than one of my computers, but with different combinations of programs, drivers, and hardware I've had problems that I fixed by doing what I just suggested you do (uninstall it ALL) and then reload the drivers with a "clean install" and I even go so far as to name a new directory for the fresh driver install and wipe the old directories. THEN install Precision X. I was having your issue. I had these nice shiny new 670s and they were running fine then down-clocking. There was an early driver with a "monitor sleep problem" but if you run current drivers (I do, there's no problem with them) then that problem has been fixed. I didn't have *that* problem, yet my cards would be running fine and I'd check the next day and they had down-clocked. I was really unhappy. After spending hours and hours trying to find the culprit, I found some reference to Afterburner in a Windows error log. I uninstalled Afterburner (just shutting it down didn't work), reloaded the drivers with a clean install to a new directory (the idea being to make the registry reference a different subdirectory and avoid whatever had been written to the old one) and the down-clocking problem went away. I liked and did not want to give-up my Afterburner. That didn't matter. Now that the newest version of Precision X is out, I like it as well or better than I ever liked Afterburner. It does take some getting used-to. You will never "dictate" to the Kepler like you did with the Fermi. But here's where I run-out of any knowledge. The 660, not the Ti version, is a different chip, the GK106. I'm not sure that what little I know translates to the GK106. I hope if it doesn't translate that you aren't frustrated with me because I'm just trying to be helpful. Jason posted a lot about dealing with a Kepler when the first 600s were released. Let me see if I can find something for you... I'm so glad I remembered: Jason's Profile with Instructions Just try it. Get rid of everything but the latest version of Precision X and look carefully at what Jason wrote. I really hope it helps. |
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