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Did The New VIA Driver Break My Gaming Desktop, Or Is My Card Dying?

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by Joon NolanJump to the reply

Check power before blaming the driver. A PSU that's borderline or a daisy-chained PCIe cable can cause exactly this under load. If it's a desktop, use two separate PCIe power cables if the card has two connectors.

  1. Eamon
    @pixel_lab72

    okay, this is driving me nuts. black screen, fans ramp up, and about five seconds later Windows comes back like nothing happened. then this pops up:

    USB Audio Device Properties

    USB Audio Device Properties
Device status:
This device cannot start. (Code 10)

{Operation Failed}
The requested operation was unsuccessful.

    It's always while running a 3D benchmark. My gaming desktop is not overclocked and temps look normal in the vendor overlay. The only change I can point to is the K8M890CE & K8N890CE Display Driver update from VIA. I've already restarted a dozen times, obviously. Is there a log somewhere that tells me what actually timed out, or am I stuck guessing?

    RAM prices doing their own thing again smh

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  2. Erik S.
    @eriks466

    oh ive been there lol since it started right after the update, roll back first. Device Manager > Display adapters > right-click your GPU > Properties > Driver > Roll Back Driver. if the button is greyed out, download teh previous package from teh VIA support page and install that instead. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  4. Joon Nolan
    @joon_pixel
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    Check power before blaming the driver. A PSU that's borderline or a daisy-chained PCIe cable can cause exactly this under load. If it's a desktop, use two separate PCIe power cables if the card has two connectors.

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  5. Joon Nolan
    @joon_pixel

    not every TDR is the driver. if the black screens continue on two diffreent driver versions, Id start testing the card and PSU instead of hopping versions.

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  6. Eamon
    @pixel_lab72
    in reply to @joon_pixel

    @joon_pixel omggg clean install with DDU on the previous VIA driver and teh black screens are gone. two days of running a 3D benchmark and not a single 4101... thank u! owe u a beer 🍺

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