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jarch87

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Registered: 2011-08-12

Posts: 11

GTX680 --> System crashing to readonly.

Is anyone succesfully running a GTX680 on Arch x86_64?

I was running an ATI HD6780, not satisfied with the current catalyst drivers and world of warcraft performance purchased a gtx 680 OC edition. I started crashing immediately after installing it. On average 20-30 minutes of gaming, or idle time and my system would become unresponsive.

Commands usually just return input/output error, or never return. Some times dmesg will return with a ton of errors on the drive, and comments about flipping over to read only.

I've tried both core and beta nvidia drivers, same results. Leaving the system up overnight has resulted in it being locked the following morning.

I've ran fsck on the drive, no errros.
I wiped my root partition and did a fresh install of arch, both nvidia and nvidia-beta drivers.. Same result.
I wiped the entire drive, redid partitioning and file systems,  same result.

Has anyone seen this? I finally put the ATI card back in, and im stable again. At this point I think I should warranty the card and try another one.. but I'd feel better if others shared they are running successfully on the gtx680.

When going between ati---> nvidia or vice versa, I remvoed all the dependancies required, instaled new drivers and reinstalled dependancies. nothing was done with a --ignore-deps or anything else silly.

On kernel 3.6.2-1
i7 2600k
gtx680 (crashing) vs Radeon hd6780(not crashing)
nvidia and nvidia-beta drivers, vs catalyst drivers

Meyithi

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Re: GTX680 --> System crashing to readonly.

I run a 680, no problems what so ever, currently running with the nvidia beta's, maybe you just got a bad card.

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jarch87

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Registered: 2011-08-12

Posts: 11

Re: GTX680 --> System crashing to readonly.

Thanks, it ended up being the SSD. The Ati card eventually locked up as well with same symptoms.

Fortunately I had a 25G unused partition on my storage drive, so I copied the partition off the ssd onto the spare drive, put my home directory on another drive, mount -o bind the home directory and just pointed the grub.cfg to the other root partition. wasn't a pretty setup, but it stayed stable all night.

Installed a new samsung ssd, and back up/running stable as can be.

The drive was a crucial m4 128G, about 7 months old. Bit disappointed.