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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-08-10T06:44:14+00:00

    Thanks for the reminder, it seems I forgot the reboot after applying the MSI-Utility. Silly :)

    The machine has now been rendering for 15+ hours on 7 cards and still going strong, which absolutely is a first!

    Thank you very, very much for posting the workaround.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-08-08T16:35:42+00:00

    Hmm.  I've been more stable on my end but haven't been rendering as much as you.  Couple of things to check...

    • running Windows 10 1709 
    • using latest Nvidia driver 
    • when you ran the Nvidia supplied app you made sure to check / activate msi for every gpu
    • you restarted your system after the app ran

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-08-08T16:30:12+00:00

    Unfortunately, it crashes again. It rendered fine for about 5,5 hours last night, but today it will crash after 10-30 minutes. Same watchdog violation.

    Please release a fix, NVIDIA!

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-08-05T11:39:45+00:00

    I've been experiencing this also.  I can't tell you how frustrating it's been dealing with Nvidia over the last few days.  I had one agent initially say they were aware of issues with multiple GPU setups and subsequent agents basically behaved as if this was the first they were hearing about it.  I have an open case (Case# 180803-000777) with them re. the matter.

    Their current 'workaround' is to downgrade the driver.  That's it.  I've spent two days going back and forth with them on this.  The last tech I chatted with was an engineer and recommended downgrading to 391.01.  I did that and ran my system on full load for some time without issue (100% on both CPU / GPU x3).  Then the DPC Watchdog Violation happened again.  I've since downgraded further to 382.53 and will report back here with any issues.

    Thanks to all here for posting.  Makes a big difference knowing that others are pushing for fix on this also.

    My system specs...

    i7 5960x 4.2 Ghz

    64 GB memory

    Asus X99 E WS motherboard

    EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX 3.0 (x 3)

    Windows 10 Pro 64bit (1709)

    Nvidia driver (now using 382.53)

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-07-11T17:53:13+00:00

    also to update this, i upgraded to 4x1080tis and latest drivers, and I had one crash while my two monitors were connected to the 1st card, I now had put them on the secons card and no issues so far (while rendering with octane 3.08, or sim TFD).

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