PC crashing - BSOD Watchdog violation 1x133 (possibly nVidia issue)

Anonymous
2018-01-16T13:57:39+00:00

Recently I have built a 3D rendering station for a client of mine. The machine runs, but crashes about once or twice a day with a BSOD (watchdog violation 1x133. Blue Screen View mentions either nvlddmkm.sys or ntoskrnl.exe as culprit.

Things I have tried so far:

  • Clean install Windows 10
  • Clean install Windows 7
  • DDU removal of graphics drivers
  • latest nVidia drivers
  • older nVidia drivers
  • extensive RAM testing

Specs:

  • Asus X99-WS 10G E
  • Intel 6850K
  • 7x Zotac 1080ti Blower Edition (transformed to water cooling)
  • 64GB RAM
  • Samsung 960 Pro 512GB (system drive)
  • 3x WD Red in RAID 0 (data drive)
  • 2x Cooler Master V1200 PSU
  • Custom EK watercooling loop
  • Obsidian 900D

Speccy Snapshot: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/qchWoHD0m7mueWTEVccxFlD

Any help or insight on this issue would be greatly appreciated, as this issue now causes great delays in my client's workflow.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-05-29T11:10:33+00:00

    thanks a lot for your reply.

    I will try the gpu hardware test...

    If I'll continue to have issues seems there is no way to solve it properly?

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-05-29T11:24:35+00:00

    thanks a lot for your reply.

    I will try the gpu hardware test...

    If I'll continue to have issues seems there is no way to solve it properly?

    If it's hardware, you can replace it once you know which part if faulty. If it's a software driver issue, you can ask NVIDIA to step in, find more users affected and ask them to contact NVIDIA, too, and wait until it's fixed.

    Many of us (end users) had to wait for several months until the MSI fix became available by a third party and NVIDIA hasn't solved the problem (in the driver). I can only assume that NVIDIA doesn't want people to use 3 or 4 consumer-labeled GPUs for work when its high end products make lots more profit, but not every market can afford the high price tag of Quadros.

    As a consequence of NVIDIA's practice, I've since built a second workstation using AMD's Vega Frontier Edition GPUs, to diversify hardware and software solutions (see OpenCL software, in place of CUDA) and I've stopped buying CUDA-only software. It's a loss-loss scenario, as NVIDIA loses sales and I loose in potential performance, but this is a well-known consequence of monopolistic behavior.

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