Nvidia GTX 670 blue screen
When a driver SYS fails, that’s usually something to do with hardware failing and the driver is just the last thing the OS knew it was talking to. There are relatively few things that will cause a hardware failure, but the most common are: bad connection, heat, power, faulty components.
Easy stuff first: is the graphics card properly seated in the slot? If it’s sitting at an angle and not making solid connections, it can cause issues. So you might want to remove and reseat the card. If you have a motherboard that supports SLI configurations, you might want to put the graphics card in “the other” video slot and see if the problem persists.
Heat: Everyone loves to say “my card can’t be overheating because the GPU temp is normal.” That’s not true at all. Any component that has electricity running through it can get too hot to function properly, especially if the case has bad airflow, the card is right next to something that puts out a lot of heat (PSU, HDD, blowtorch, etc) and many times overheating ISN’T on the GPU because the GPU is where all the cooling is focused. Things that get forgotten about are VRAM, voltage regulators, capacitors, stuff on the video card that’s far away from the GPU – by the power connections. So take a few moments and do some due diligence and make sure that airflow and cooling are up to par. Maybe even try a little overkill and have a box fan blow into the open case just to make sure there’s plenty of airflow.
Power: Since it’s a new card, and it seems like you haven’t had the problem before, it could be that your old PSU isn’t powerful enough to handle the new graphics card. What size and brand of PSU do you have? Does it have more than one power rail? Does it have dedicated GPU power connectors or do you have to use adapters to get power from one of the standard power cables? If you’re taking power from cables that are also connected to HDDs, SSDs, DVDs, case fans, or other components, you might try reconnecting the power cables so that nothing else is getting power from whatever cable the video card is getting power from.
Faulty components: It’s usually pretty rare to get bad products, but it does happen. And usually, the parts that fail are the parts that are only really stressed when playing games or using other applications that really stress the hardware. So you might never see problems if you only run desktop apps, but running a game would cause the crash. If it’s convenient and you can’t find any satisfactory solutions to the crash, you might want to return/RMA the video card and try a new one.
Something else to try, since you said the card is overclocked from the factory, is underclocking it. That will reduce the boards power consumption and heat generation, and put less stress on the card and system as a whole. It wouldn’t be a permanent solution, but it might help you figure out what the real problem is.
I upgraded from an ati 6970, which is actually a more powerhungry card, im also using a quad rail 1,000 watt powersupply.
I exhanged the video card today and will try it when I get home, but I also ran a program called whocrashed which also pionts to a video driver issue.
I swapped out the video card with a same model and still getting blue screens with a nvidia error code, im gonna try a driver cleaner tonight when I get home, but im really starting to believe this is a driver issue that anet needs to look at.