How to recover from a failed overclock? 8600M GT...

Hi!

I've been playing with my 1720, T7300, 8600M GT, and ATITool.

Problem is that whenever I push the card too much, I get the NV..... driver has faild and fully recovered error, and the overclocking stops.

@ this point, I can't do any more overclocking until I restart.

Is there any otherway to get back to overclocking without a full restart?

Thanks!

 

Yeah, stop pushing the card too hard and learn to OC the right way.

Little by little...

 

Do not OC too much until you want to kill your card

Normally 8600M GT DDR2 stable @ 560/460 (GPU:MEM).Remember to OC little by little like Litus said if you want to go further

 

I OC'd mine to 590/490, works like a gem.

Orion:
I'm curious which driver you are using? Are you modifying the BIOS? Or just using ATI Tool?

 

I guess you got that nvlmddmkm display driver crashed and restored promt from your taskbar
if so I can tell you that from my experience you did a little too much overclocking to your gram
nothing less, nothing worse
actually it shouldn't be damaged if you tried to make your way up slowly
try to use ntune ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_5.05.47.00.html )and watch for the NVMonitor while overclocking, yellow says it should be fine but still may crash (which by the way shouldn't cause ne hardware damage - no guarantee)

 

Thanks guys!

Yeah, I was pushing it a little too much. I thought it would just lock, or crash in case of failure, but I wasn't expecting than driver has failed....error

I guess my limit is around 590 / 450 with my 8600M GT. Not bad IMO!

ATITool reports the temperature @ 42c when Idle and @ 62c - 65c when overclocked.

So far, HL2, Rayman RR, NFS Most Wanted play well.

Crysis made me cry for the Quad Core @ 3.6ghz / 8800GTX Rig I had to sell recently!


BTW, this is with the 169.04 driver!

 

I got 169.04 Drivers by now and I ran them yesterday overclocked to 630/459

absolute stable
but I can't get beyond 459 (which is 466) Ram clock without my display driver crashing

and I gotta tell you...
jesus, this is a wonderful wonderful world in Crysis ^^
it ran stable for three rounds of watching something braking through an iced boat and me listening to someone screaming 'It's got Jesta!!' and stuff

didn't log temperature, but it did never go beyond 80°C (I would have heared an alarm warning)

I tried to get a higher ram clocking with all kinds of gpu clocking up the way to 630 (i simply didn't went further, but I guess sooner or later I'll give it a try)

acually I ran a 10 min GPU Stresstest(included in nTune) @ 630/474 but the famous display driver crashed when I splashed into the water after 'my damn chute' was gone...
@466 I was able to get to aztec's corpse, display driver crashed some seconds before he got vaporized (actually I don't see any connections between vaporization and a crashing display driver), so 466 pulled it off a little longer but is unstable also

btw. I am amazed that 630MHz GPU is so ****ing stable for me
and by now i'm a little paranoid that nvidia is pulling some strings and it's not -really- 630 MHz
I guess I'll give rivatuner a try...
well, I'll give it a try sunday
gotta catch a train @ 14:30 (2:30 pm for US folks) and it's 12:20 and I still got to get things packed up
there are sure one or two things in the real world that are more beautiful than crysis such as my girl friend
'I GOTTA GO! I GOTTA GO NOW!' (well, ONLY one or two things... I'm that hot for this game, named girl friend is gonna hate me at least she's living 2 hours away from here, so i got some buffer ^^)