GTX 680M Stuck at very low clocks, windows 8

Tried multiple reinstalls, many versions, runs at 2k points, runs crisis at 20fps, the fan never goes on (but it does work in diagnostics).


Windows 8 is a nightmare, I think I've wasted over 50 hours trying to get it work right. I have no bloody idea how it is working before but not now, and reinstall doesn't make it work either. Since even reinstalling doesn't work I'm afraid that not even win7 is going to do now.



EDIT: Okay I went back to win7 and still refuses to go up any higher. What the hell.............

 

Mine M17x is arriving in a week with the 680M and Windows 8 pre-installed, hope I don't run into similar issues.

Since it's preinstalled I'm pretty hopeful that everything will be working fine... if you upgraded from Windows 7, I'd assume a full clean of your drivers, reinstall, and getting the latest drivers... :S but I don't have it yet so I have no idea

 

Okay my card seems to be stuck in P8 state, reinstall doesn't work, tried bios and vbios flash, tried reinstall everything, no dice.

 

So to the OP in short would you recommend not installing Windows 8?

 

Dunno, since now my win 7 can't go above 324 clock now too. Personally I guess I shouldn't have messed with anything since now I'm stuck with an underclocked GTX 680M.

 

I installed Win 8, and haven't run into any problems. problems.

 

after installation of windows 8 my games have extreme frame drops, for example Guild Wars 2 is running now 20 fps +-... Reinstall of windows also dont help, I think I have the same problem...

 

Like I said, full clean installs, installs back to win7, they all just don't work. Wish I bought it later...

 

There is really no way a software install can permanently harm your card.

I have been running Win 8 Pro for a month and it works perfectly fine in games with the 680m. No idea what happened to you but I don't think Windows 8 was the cause.

 

I didn't say it is permanently damaging it. I suspected that it happens in windows 8 but now it appears it's in windows 7 as well. Maybe you would have a better idea what's the cause?

 

I really don't, try shutting down the laptop, take out the battery and take off the bottom cover and pop out the CMOS battery (it is a little silver circle battery should be visible) then hold the power button with all the batteries out and laptop unplugged for like 10 seconds put it all back and see if it helps. Might have been some weird CMOS corruption since Win 8 can actually use the UEFI secure boot.

 

Actually did that today, didn't work. I guess it's just a bad card. Just my luck too, since I suspected that it might be a vbios problem so I flashed with a slightly oc'd vbios. That means I can't ask for return right.

 

Just flash it back, if you flash back to stock no one can tell.

 

Strangely can't find it anymore, even though I backed it. Wish someone here is nice enough to upload a ROM for me.

 

Merry Christmas!

 

Thanks. The dell version?



Strangely it can enter P5 state now, wasn't able to before. PCIE stuck at 1.1 or 2.0 mode instead of 3.0, maybe have something to do with it.

 

So strange, now I can clock myself back to stock clock, but the computer is either in p5 or p8, and nothing else. I wish it can enter p0 like a normal computer. Still stuck at pci-e 2.0 though.

 

Sorry to revive a slightly dead thread, I had the same issue, windows 8 clean install and my gtx 680m was stuck at core clock of 324, using the latest non beta driver 306.97. I updated to the beta 310.33 the issue has gone, the core clock is 720 and boosts up to 758 by itself. Just to help anyone if they have the same issue.

 

Hi guys.
I thought I was the only one with this issue! GTX 680m with windows 8 as well, and the frame rate is just way way too low. My old graphics card was a GTX 9800+ and that did a faster frame rate, even if it was 6 years old...
I'm guessing it's just because the drivers for windows 8 aren't there yet? I've seen videos of people playing Battlefield 3 on this card at 50 or so fps on ultra, where-as I can't even get that on low.

I was running on 306.97 drivers, and when I updated to 310.33 it didn't even allow me to run a couple of games...

I'm going to go back to windows 7 to see if it helps at all. Re-install 7, go back to factory settings and then we'll see how the games run.
(Although I am having issues going back to windows 7 for some reason...)

 

Personally, my 680M has increased frame rates with Win8 than Win7. I did have to install new drivers for the card to work in Windows 8, so maybe that is your problem. However, why it doesn't work in Windows 7 puzzles me.

I would check for the new drivers on NVIDIA's website to see if that helps.

 

what kind of drivers did you install for it to work?