Dell P06 beta driver not downclocking cards? Help Please!

My cards have horrible performance, I think it might be powermizer.

I have the 280m cards on an R1. SLI switched OFF. Driver is 197.84 Dell P06 Beta

I downloaded powermizer switch, first run and it said powermizer was OFF which seems odd? I didn't touch the registry before. So I switched it on and rebooted.

Now only one of my cards is downclocking properly and my fans are constantly in mid-speed spin.


Card 1: (Primary GPU?)




Card 2:



I'm not sure if this is an issue with the drivers or the powermizer switch.


Can someone tell me if there is a known issue with this Dell driver and what settings I should have for powermizer?

I only used this driver because I heard it was the most stable, but it's causing me more issues than the 2XX series ones right now!

Some days I switch on and this happens:



I can't play any games sometimes please help!

 

Ah your suffering from DPC latency there chiefs.

Try the Nvidia 260.99 drivers. Make sure you clean out the old drivers 1st in safe mode with Driver sweeper and cc cleaner then restart back to normal OS mode and install the new Nvidia drivers.

Cheers.

 

Thanks, I'm giving those drivers a go now. SLI Support for Fallout: New Vegas I see, looks nice

Ok, after installing those I made sure all the right values for powermizer were set up in the registry and my cards are downclocking when they should.

My dpc latency is still there however, but I have a feeling its the chipset driver.

After I reformatted my laptop a while back I just grabbed the latest chipset drivers from the Dell site. I just read here that it can cause people DPC latency:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m17x/495355-m17xr1-nvidia-chipset-v15-57-dell-release-discuss-here.html

So I'm going to try using the older ones found here:

nVidia MCP79 Chipset


I don't know much about chipset drivers but last time I tried to reinstall them, I used driver sweeper and rebooted. Now when I did that my windows couldn't load, startup repair couldn't fix anything and I had to revert back to an earlier restore point.

Hopefully I can just install them over the new ones. If that causes havoc I will try rolling them back - in my case this would go back to the standard windows ones, then I can update to the Nvidia ones. Here's to hoping!

 

Hey theres chiefs,

Yups good luck with that. I had the same trouble as you with Dells latest chipset drivers. I had to format again last time and just install the old working great old chipset drivers.

Good Luck.

Cheers.