PCI-E 2.0 Possibly Causing Random Shutdowns in games in G73?

Hello friend, is what you saw!
Without explanation, my asus G73JW worked with PCI-E 2.0 x16.
suddenly became Running in PCI-E X16 1.1.
And I noticed that after that, I'm not having random shutdowns when I'm playing. Even with overclocking the GPU

Do you confirm this?

what i do not understand is how it went for PCI-E 1.1 X16. I do not remember anything upgraded or configured.

 

Before - PCI-E 2.0X16


Current - PCI-E 1.1X16

 

How did you make it 2.0? Mine is at 1.0 like full time lol.

 

I do not know how this occurred.
He was running at PCI-E 2.0.

I have not noticed any difference in performance.

 

The PCI-E link is automatically reduced to 1.1 to save power when idle.
Update your GPU-Z and click on the question mark to read more about it.

 

I thought 301.24 fixed this for you?

 

I'm sorry, but it was just a false impression!
the new Beta Driver not solved the problem, just softened.
o'que happened is that the new Anti-aliasing uses less power, and with it the Sleep It took longer to occur.

anyway, after I switched the whole folder and put Thermal heating pads, the shutdown is still taking longer to happen.

it's all very complex!

 

So what, exactly, is causing this? Is it a heating issue? The overclocked GPU drawing too much voltage?

 

friend look after everything I've tried to solve this problem, which can be more certain, is that the Video Card has a limit of maximum power that can administer to GPU. when this limit is Reached Sequentially, it seems that the video card sends a signal to the mother board off the system completely.
this is what makes more sense!
because I've tried to feed the video card with the cable straight from the source of power supply. yet the system shut down.

I wanted to find out which component of the mother board receives this signal and the system Off.
Probably the Same Component which shuts down the notebook in case of short circuit, or when Pressing the power button for several seconds.

If I could discover it, I would try Off the track, preventing the signal to be Received off. Maybe the system does not shut down anymore.

 

maykon_helver, I think you're right. I've had my G73 for over a year and a half. I tried overclocking early on but had mixed results. So I left it at stock for a year or so. It wasn't perfect at stock though. I would still get random shutdowns while browsing the internet even sometimes. It was rare, but it happened. That and freezes (which went away for a while and came back later on, I think throttlestop has fixed that though)

Witcher 2 is what made me experiment with overclocking again and that's when I had frequent shutdowns. Not so much with Witcher 2, but other games. Usually after an hour. I tried all sorts of combos and did all the suggestions. Bought a new power brick with a higher voltage, flashed the vbios and back, re-pasted, re-installed, etc. Nothing helped. My temps are fine. Thought it was the vram for a while because overclocking vram made the temp escalate pretty high and didn't contribute to my fps at all, left it at stock. Same thing. With the 301 driver it happens at 800 or above within 5 mins on Skyrim. So I've tried it at 775 and it lasts an hour like it did before. Now I have 750 and I've also been playing with stock. I have a feeling 750 won't last. Kinda over this and from the looks of this forum's archives every G53/G73 owner has been affected. Doesn't matter what CPU generation for video card manufacturer..

I'm thinking class action lawsuit. All G53/G73, every single one of them, have this problem.

 

lol, suing a company because the cards don't overclock enough for your tastes?

You must be from the States.