[SOLVED] GTX 660 dying? Hi gurus! My desktop has been freezing for a few months now every time I play a game. I tolerated it in the beginning but it's unbearable now. I need to hold down the power button and restart to get back into windows. Watch dogs, sniper elite 3 and other games all have the same issue. It only happens in games. In the end I reinstalled windows 7 (even windows 8) but the problem is still there. I'm almost confident now that my GPU is defective (Asus GTX 660). I have used Heaven Benchmark on extreme settings and it too freezes but only in full screen mode. I watched temps and load using MSI Afterburner. Temps never go above 61C with 99% constant load. When a game freezes there is no flickering or green textures. Just instant freeze. The fact that it only freezes in games made me focus on the GPU. I just wanted your guys opinion if this is most likely from the GPU. If it seems so I will go get a new GTX 970 (about time for an upgrade anyway). The weird thing is that I don't get any artifacts or weird colors. Just instant hard freeze. EDIT: my spec on the left are way out of date I will update them later! Thank you!
I almost open the event viewer after every crash. Most common erros are the Microsoft Security Client OOBE stopped working.... I have since removed it and installed a fresh copy of windows 8. Many errors are also some SQL queries failing. I tried to Google for some errors but nothing has helped. I can post a complete list later once I get home and reproduce a freeze. Thanks for the reply.
I finally got an MSI 970 GTX which was well worth the upgrade. The increase in performance is amazing. I played COD for a while then got the same freeze again. Hard restarted my desktop and found this on the event viewer: Audit events have been dropped by the transport. 0 I had the same error in windows 7 too before. The first post in this thread seems to describe my problem well, except that I almost always get it while gaming: http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-hel...t-events-have-been-dropped-transport-0-a.html
I will try to update the BIOS later tonight but after some research it seems that the motherboard might be the problem (alternatively PSU). Any ideas?
You think it could be a problem with my HDDs? I tried installing a game to my primary SSD but that didn't change anything. Same on my 1TB HDD.
I defragmented all my hdds without any luck still getting same error in event viewer after a freeze in games. Really running out of options and just thinking to go buy a new mb.
I just tried a the other PCI-e slot. Still some problem. Desktop freezes 20-30 minutes into the game. The case is dust free and checked CPU/GPU temps and all are normal. I always get the audit event has been dropped in the event viewer. Really puzzled :/
Some more testing to try to figure out the cause: Took out all the RAM and tried stick per stick. No change. Desktop freezes in Ubuntu too. Once it freezes, it will stay that way until it eventually powers of by itself. I'm gonna try and see if I can find a way to make windows logs everything to a file. Like a detailed log that can I check after rebooting.
Getting a new motherboard fixed the issue! So something was off with the old one. Lesson of the day: never buy an ASUS product again.
I will be RMA it. Had a 660 die on me too which I got replaced a year ago. And an old Asus mb died on me too a few years back. I'm not saying their products are bad. Just maybe I always get the bad seeds
yeah, i had the same experience with asus. 2 mobos died in 5 months, the second one they didn't accept the RMA and made up that I damaged a cpu pin so they didn't have to give me a third mobo. Since then, i went gigabyte, and never looked back or had issues.
