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    can't believe i am asking this (GPU downclocked)

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Nirvana, Aug 3, 2008.

  1. Nirvana

    Nirvana Notebook Prophet

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    my 8800m gtx just downloaded for no reason tonight, i check the power settings, it's on performance; the GPU temp is 44C, so no over heating. no new software or drivers installed. the fps in grid dropped from regularly 40fps to 17fps. let me know if you got any clue :( Thanks!
     
    Nirvana, Aug 3, 2008
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  2. plasma.

    plasma. herpyderpy

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    ahahaha, its happening to sager now! the irony....


    or it could just be you


    try some new drivers
     
    plasma., Aug 3, 2008
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    wow great support qaz333. unfortunately i don't have a solution but i'm not going to laugh at nirvana. best of luck fixing it.
     
    auburncoast, Aug 3, 2008
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  4. Rorschach

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    >.> well lets start our way down the list. Is your graphics card overclclocked? Are you using setfsb? How many times has this problem happened? Is it grid only or is it another game also? Do a run of 3dmark 06 and post your scores. If possible make sure nothing has changed for the video bios and use nibitor to check the clock settings.
     
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    plasma. herpyderpy

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    sorry couldnt resist :D
     
    plasma., Aug 3, 2008
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  6. Nirvana

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    @bwhxeon, no i put it back to stock clocking a while ago. it was running at ~300mhz instead of stock 500mhz tonight. every games affected.
     
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    could it somehow be downclocking cause you overclocked your cpu?
     
    plasma., Aug 3, 2008
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  8. Nirvana

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    impossible, it just suddenly happened today.
     
    Nirvana, Aug 3, 2008
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    Exactly why is this a Sager problem? The card isn't overheating, which means that Sager's cooling solution is functioning properly - the cause of the downclocking isn't the Sager hardware. It's an Nvidia failure if anything. A certain percentage of cards will fail. Perhaps you drew a short straw. Call your reseller, and have it diagnosed and replaced.
     
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  10. Rorschach

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    Two things you can try. Follow this guide and you can try two things from it, one follow the guide on how to turn off powermizer, the second part of the guide you can try is where it shows where to edit your registry files and what to change it to, do the exact opposite and change it to 3333. I only reccomend trying this guide, because the other day for no reason powermizer decided to quit working and my card would not downclock. Link below http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=261929

    The second thing you could try is backing up your video bios and force flash it back to stock settings. I reccomend you try the registry editing first though. Suppose the the other thing you could do is try a fresh OS install.
     
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  11. flipfire

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    Try overclock it to the default clocks
     
    flipfire, Aug 3, 2008
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    ryujin 2B or not 2B

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    why?
    seems a bit stupid to attempt an OC to the default clocks...considering it should operate at the defualt clocks to begin with...
     
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    He's right.

    Overclock the 3D Settings in the vBIOS to the standard clocks it should be running at (500/1250/1800) and while at it, set the Extra clock to an overclocked setting (600/1500/1950) and perhaps volt up to 1.05v.

    This would in effect force the card to run normally, and there would never be a down clocking issue again. Anything running 2D (movies, any multi-media) would run at the standard 2D speeds.
     
    emike09, Aug 3, 2008
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    Do not just flash up to these clocks. All gpu's cannot handle these settings by default. I've already helped two other people solve problems by adjusting their overclocks, even when ati tool and 3dmark show zero problems.
     
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  15. Nirvana

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    i just remembered that i actually installed a windows update yesterday, not sure if it got anything to do with it.
     
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    issue fixed by updating with 175.95. I guess the windows update had conflict with my previous driver.
     
    Nirvana, Aug 3, 2008
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    Most probably, I have read on other forums about this.
    Some stupid WU can cause downclocking. Oh well.
     
    eleron911, Aug 3, 2008
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