STRIX 1070 OC - VBIOS update problems

[FreakyStepz]

Hi guys. I`ve had really strange problems with my 1070 strix oc (micron chip) after updating the vbios from the official asus website (the version from November 2016 which says "updated micron stability"). For me it worked in the opposite way. After the update I`ve had some BSODs and black screens. I`ve figured that it happens when working with programs and the card changes slightly the memory clock speed. I`ve tried to switch to “Prefer maximum performance" in NVIDIA control panel and reinstalling drivers but it did not helped. Finally I`ve managed to downgrade the bios of my card and it worked fine - no BSODs, no flickering or other artifacts. Anyone who is experiencing some problems with that version of the VBIOS?

For me it happened in X99 system without overclocking the CPU or GPU, with no XMP memory profiles and temps were stable - 50C for the GPU and 50C for the CPU - completely stable system.

[FuryA]

hi FreakyStepz
when after updating the new vBIos, have You tried to reinstall
the newest drivers or swap to different platform to use
does it happen BSODs and black screens?

[FreakyStepz]

I couldn`t swap the videocard to another system because I own a laptop and there isn`t any other PC arround. I tried to reinstall the driver (different versions from Nvidia site (375.57 and 375.70) and the latest from Asus site with no luck. Then I reinstalled the whole video pack with no luck (Driver + GPU tweak II). After that I tried to update my motherboard BIOS (Gigabyte X99 UltraGaming from F3 to F5) and the BSOD-s and frezes were present. Finally I downgraded the vBIOS to 86.04.26.00.62 from 2016-07-11, (cleaned the drivers with GUI tool and installed the 372.70 driver and the artefacts were gone. I`m using Windows 10.

My whole system is all new (few weeks old) and befere that VBIOS update it was super stable.

I`ll describe the problem with the black screens and BSOD-s. When I was working in an application (Photoshop) - and when the memory clock changes (register in GPU tweak II from ~7600 MHZ to ~8000 MHZ - the whole screen was going to black for a second and the Photoshop was crashing. After several black screens it was the time for the BSOD. It`s strange because the memory clock was forced to be stable in Nvidia control panel by enabling the Prefer Maximum Performance and there were still some minor changes in the MHZ.

Now the system is stable with the 86.04.26.00.62 and I`m using Optimal Mode. Memory clock changes all the time. No freezes, no BSODS, no black screens. Really, really strange.... That`s why I decided that the problem is video related.

[FreakyStepz]

To be more precise - when the flickering was hapening my CPU was at 100% (all 6 cores) with some minor load on the video card. Temperatures of the CPU were arround 56 and arround 50 for the video. The power consumption was arround 330-350W (I own a CORSAIR RM 750i and the info is from the app corsair link). That`s why I have ignored to be a power related problem. Now with the same sitation - no problems.