***Gigabyte P35X owner's lounge***

You mean +135Mhz right?! (Yep, when people quote their scores it helps to make it clear whether it's the Overall Score, Graphics Score, Physics Score, or Combined Score to avoid confusion; when comparing GPU overclock results it's the Graphics Score that is most relevant.)

 

I will run 3DMark FireStrike; ultra, extreme and standard later today. In high performance mode. And overclocked settings too.

Yeah I meant plus, oops.

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Here\s my 3dmark when i sent my desktop reso to 1920x1080p

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4860HQ Processor,GIGABYTE P35V3

They look normal right? Going to try in native 3k desktop reso when i get t owork.

 

Looks good, looks inline with the tests done on notebookcheck.net.

 

I hadn't been watching what type they were, but I have several bootable CD's and USB drives I've been using during my troubleshooting. It is possible that I had one non EUFI drive in the mix. I'm starting to wonder if I was causing more issues by swapping out drives and drive name/numbers changing at different points during my imaging and setup during the first few boots.

I was able to get through it this last time without any problems, except my recovery partition still doesn't work, but at least this time I get an error (that same 0x0000225 error I had one other time) where maybe I can troubleshoot it and get it working. Otherwise I will blow it away and move on. Had the computer 4 days and I've not been able to do anything other than reinstall, update, and troubleshoot. I just want to play games now.

I did get some good images of my setup after fully updating everything, both with and without the recovery drive. So hopefully even if I have to go through it all again it will be much faster next time. I won’t have to change out the SSD’s back and forth again like I’ve had to do over and over the last few days.

 

Would having your desktop reso @ 1080p compared to native 3k make a huge difference?

Only thing I did last night before going to bed was install the latest bios, oem Intel and NV GFX drivers.

Will be using DDU as Robbo later to clean up drivers and test further.

So far the latest NV GFX drivers were crashing on 3DMark.

I totally understand, I've had the laptop since Mon and only thing I've done since is install multiple SSDs to decide which ones to keep and install OS and drivers.

Last night for 30 mins I was finally able to play my game just to test my 980m. And I'll probably be doing this the whole weekend to figure out if I've a lemon or not.

It would totally and royally suck if I've a lemon. All the joy and happiness I had for the laptop when I first placed the order went out the door quickly. It's so disheartening when spending this much and having issues out of the box. Actually, this is the first time buying a laptop and having this much problem from the get go.

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Not sure that is possible. From what I´ve read Shadow of Mordor can only scale of your native resolution. For example 67% will yield 1080P. I don´t know how I would first set it to 1080P and then scale up from there.

 

Ok so I'm at work and just set my desktop reso to native 3k and ran 3DMARK and it didn't crash on startup as before.

I wonder which of the BIOS, OEM Intel and NV GFX update played a part. Before I was using MS Intel GFX drivers, latest NV drivers and BD07 bios that Freekers linked.

I'm really tempted to leave it alone but sooner or later I'll have to upgrade the drivers so I guess I should find out the answer now rather than later.

I really need to see if I can find change logs to the latest BIOS to see what changes are in there and if they had anything to do with GFX.

All in all I'm a lot more relieved now compared to when 3DMark started to fail on every attempt last night.

EDIT: lastest 3DMark test http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4713594

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I've had crashes similar to that but I think it was only from Vantage, and it was only from the steam version. I've only ran 3dmark11 on the new laptop but never had a crash that wasn't related to overclocking too much.

 

Yeap, I've only had crashes due to OC'n too much but never on a brand new system out of the box which scared and bummed me out.

Is it normal that HWMonitor and HWMonnitor Pro doesn't show the temp of my GPUs?

What's a good app to see the temps of my GPU's? I've GPU-Z installed.

 

My crashes were all BSOD driver power state failures when having all those monitoring software and edits going.

I have yet to run a single test with screen res at 1080...

As for GPU, Nvidia Inspector is good. Just make sure to add temperature graph.

 

I haven't done any logging yet but HWInfo64 seemed to work great for me the few times I've used it the this laptop (portable version requiring no install).

 

Ah I see, yes, your display is already native 3k, so 150% would be even higher.

 

Ok this just doesn't make sense. I uninstalled both INTEL & NV GFX drivers and used DDU to clean them up. Then proceeded to use the latest drivers for both in which 3DMark failed on startup. I uninstalled them, ran DDU and reinstalled the OEM Intel & NV and it doesn't crash 3dMark. Can't figure why oh why. Time to stop and just enjoy the laptop and play games to find out if it will crash during game play and go from there.

Up next is repaste of TIM and mod my U3, I'll post pictures once I'm done over the weekend.

 

High performance mode, fans on full, back raised slightly, undervolted by -80mV. Did I miss something? I can see I'm going to end up changing my thermal paste

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4860HQ Processor,GIGABYTE P35V3

 

The one thing that is infuriating me about this laptop (though I'm not sure if it is actually the one at fault or not) - apart from the infernal miniature speck that I made from my own buffoonery that nevertheless never quits haunting my soul - is that my Nexus 5 cannot connect at all via USB. It keeps connecting and disconnecting every second for the entire duration that the USB is plugged in. In every USB port. With every USB cable. With every driver available (both LG's & Google's). All the time. With all power management options disabled. It's just useless. The most aggregating thing about it is that it connects just fine to my older Samsung laptop so the phone itself is not broken. But then again, neither is the laptop as all other external USB devices work just fine. What could be causing this nonsense? Soon, once I sell my old laptops, I'll be left with a phone that can't connect to my computer, which is a hellish proposition.

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EDIT: solved!!! just like that I realise the only thing I forgot to tweak is the BIOS. There is a setting for legacy USB which is enabled by default - set it to Auto to fix connection issues! I feel stupid now that I know the solution was that simple. It has been torturing me for days now.

 

Maybe try just upgrading the NVidia driver, don't run DDU uninstaller, just install the NVidia driver from the NVidia website using the 'Custom Installation' option and then choose 'Clean Install' Tick Box.

 

Upon getting my system going for the last time last night (installing drivers, updating everything etc) I plugged my Samsung Note 3 into one of the USB 3 ports and it did the exact same thing! I thought it was really weird, it took me maybe 30 seconds to realize it wasn’t going to stop and I just unplugged it and plugged it into the next port over and it installed the driver automatically like normal and didn’t have any issues. I was in the middle of updating things so I didn’t reboot or make any other changes other than changing the port.

I know that doesn’t help your situation, but I wanted you to know I saw that same thing, albeit just once. I’m sure I will plug into it again soon and will find out if it ever comes back or not.


*Ah I see your edit now, interesting that I saw it once and did not make any changes and it went away on it's own. I swear this laptop has ghosts! Luckily none of mine are performance affecting ghosts just annoying little ones.

 

Looks the same as the notebookcheck.net results, looks ok.

 

You probably already tried this, but what about trying a different driver version, from an alternate source (if possible). Like if you were trying 344.01 from laptop2go, try the official 344.65 or whatever. I know I've had a bad version/download that caused me grief before.

 

I tell ya, if I hear that damn Windows disconnect sound one more time I will implode. Hearing that every second when you're trying to troubleshoot and having the Windows 8.1-style notifications constantly popping up on screen is the stuff straight from hell (though obviously I muted the speakers pretty quickly). I am so glad I just had that brainwave to check the BIOS. I don't know why Gigabyte didn't enable Auto mode by default. I've had external HDD's disconnect randomly very occasionally too and I was worrying about the quality of the USB port connections. And I also worried that my phone was borked. But it was a software issue all along! Huzzah!

 

Uninstalled Intel Rapid Storage... no BSOD from that blasted Driver Power State Failure for 3 hours.

 

I'm kinda wishing I would have troubleshot mine more when it did that so I would have known why. But for me it only did it on AC power, and never once on battery even when playing games so I was convinced it was a software issue and not hardware. With my other issues I felt it was better to just start from scratch and not even try to fix it anymore.

I can't wait to play some games this weekend. It supposed to be cold and snow this weekend so I'm staying inside!

I can't quite wrap mine up as my thermal paste should arrive next Tuesday. Also my stock SSD's are going in my old T500 (using a 2.5" RAID adapter) which should wake that notebook up quite a bit. I shouldn't need them any longer since I have good images now (I hope).

 

Yeap, already tried that to no success.

Here's my latest 3dmark: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4860HQ Processor,GIGABYTE P35V3

 

Turns out I didn't fix my problem with the Nexus 5 constantly disconnecting.

I found out the disconnects only occur when the laptop is plugged into AC power. But not on battery power. On all power profiles.

Help? What on earth is happening there?

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Check USB charging hibernate mode from smartmanager?

 

I realise that this is what is causing my mouse to be unresponsive too. Only on AC power. Something is affecting the USB ports on AC but not battery power.

Didn't work

 

So my results with recent benchmarks:

no undervolt, no overclock, high performance profile
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4860HQ Processor,GIGABYTE P35V3

-50mV, high perf
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4860HQ Processor,GIGABYTE P35V3

-50mV, +135/580, balance
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4860HQ Processor,GIGABYTE P35V3

-50mV, +135/580. high perf
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4860HQ Processor,GIGABYTE P35V3



Cant break 9k like cakefish did :c

I dont have a notebook cooler. In all runs, max fans was on.

 

Try to reset your power profiles and make sure USB suspend is disabled.

 

May not be related since you aren’t having the “driver power state” blue screen like some of us have, but that is what I noticed right before it crashed each time. Slow mouse response until the system locked up. Only on AC power too as you describe. (again my solution was a complete reinstall so I never will know what caused mine)

 

Didn't work. Only when the laptop is unplugged does the phone connect. What is this sorcery?!

Anyone else having this issue?

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Might be same as our driver power state failure issue. I assume smartmanager so far.

 

Uninstalling smart manager didn't work.

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How are you going to re-install it? I could not find it anywhere for download. Luckily the one issue I had with it not loading (some missing DLL error) I was able to resolve without a reinstall.

 

Freekers posted the files some pages back.

 

Smart Update was still installed.

This is really annoying me now.

Why is my phone only disconnecting on AC power and not the battery?

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I am tempted to format everything to a clean state. I think default drivers left something funky.

 

Pretty sure it's a driver issue. Try to uninstall/disable one driver at a time and check.

 

Yeah sometimes that works best. If you are able, make a nice image of it when you get it partially setup again (I just did all the smart updates from gigabyte and windows updates, open office install etc) so that the whole process is quicker the next time.

 

I dont have much installed yet. So a full wipe is fine. Been using my workstation for the usual.

Quite hilarious though, got a BSOD while attempting format...

 

Maybe I'll have to escalate this to gigabyte support... :S

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All that chatter made me nervous, so nervous I almost thinking about cancel my CF2 pre-order.

Regards

 

After formatting... no BSOD when plugged in on boot. Phone charges for me too. (iPhone 6 Plus)

 

I'm on a fresh install of W8.1 Pro and my Note 4 connects to the laptop w/o any issues. Did you do a fresh install Cake or you still using the default one that came with the laptop?

 

Don't let us scare you too much. I won't speak for the others, but in my case I am fairly certain I caused most of my own issues. And other than my recovery drive not working, again caused by me changing my RAID drives and trying to keep that partition, everything works good now. If I would have ran stock and not messed with my hardware or drive imaging I bet I wouldn't have had most of these issues.

 

I've realised it can't be all USB devices as I remember that my other mouse worked fine on AC power, as well as all of my external HDDs.

It is specific to the Nexus 5 as far as I can tell...

But the phone works fine with my older laptops...?

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Do a clean install Cake. It's always better to do a clean install after you received your notebook. Download latest drivers before install.

 

Or at least do a clean factory image. Personally I'm not a big believer in "clean" installs from windows disk nowadays. Haven't needed to do that (to fix something anyway) in many years actually, probably on an XP laptop before Win 7 came out.

 

Clean install is the only way to get rid of OEM crapware.
Windows->Drivers->Windows Updates->Full system image backup

 

I have already. I did one a few days ago after I received my Samsung 850 Pro.

Edit: oh, do you mean from a DVD disk?

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