Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

[hdm5501]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

Attached images are from EasyTune.

[hdm5501]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

Attached is the CPU-Z report.
CPU-Z Report.txt

[hdm5501]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

So fixing the memory voltage didn't do it...this morning again had artifacts. I noticed it outside of Outlook, too; the clock from the lower right of the task bar was superimposed over the orb in the lower left.

Perhaps unrelated, but I've also noticed that Windows won't start when I do a soft reboot.

It will read the MBR, but then just sit there with a blank screen. I have to hit the reset button, and then it goes through the boot process correctly.

I also noticed on a soft reboot that it appears to sit for a while right where it normally displays the CPU. It skips this part and just displays the memory frequency; not sure if that is normal behavior.

Re: the video card, I was using this video card with a P55-USB3 without issues. For this recent upgrade, all I changed was the motherboard and processor.

I'd like to avoid going with iGPU only as a last test resort, as the artifacts don't seem to come back right away, and I need to use the PC. I have 4 monitors hooked up (1 on the iGPU vga, 3 on the video card) although I toggle between 3 at my desk and 1 on the wall.

What is the appropriate setting for the iGPU video RAM size? I had it set to 64 megs I think...unless this is something else. I seem to remember back in the day there was some video buffer location setting where you had to have it beyond your physical RAM or something; not sure if maybe I'm misreading that setting and I need to adjust that (I have 16 gigs of RAM).

[Chike]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

Try uninstalling virtu and disable the iGPU in BIOS and see if there is any change.

[hdm5501]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

Does everything look OK in the CPU-Z and EasyTune settings? If so, I guess I can live without the iGPU for a day to get to the bottom of this.

[wazza300]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

try increasing the igpu memory,i know i have mine at 128mb on my h55 board,you can try one or two clicks more igpu graphics voltage aswell,and maybe one click more than 1.05v qpi/vtt see if that helps,maybe with four monitors it needs a touch more voltage(i know 3 are on your graphic card)

[Chike]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

Does everything look OK in the CPU-Z and EasyTune settings? If so, I guess I can live without the iGPU for a day to get to the bottom of this.

The CPU-Z report can't be oppened.

[hdm5501]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

I just fixed the CPU-Z report.

[hdm5501]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

Well, I changed the QPI to 1.10 from 1.05, and now I am able to do a soft reboot successfully. Kind of strange. Will run with this and see if any artifacts show up.

[wazza300]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

Qpi/vtt is for the memory controller inside the cpu,you won't need much on sandybridge and 1333mhz,some chips don't like more than 1.16v and don't use more than 1.2v

[Chike]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

Can you post a capture of EasyTune HWMonitor voltage readings? Can't trust much CPU-Z for that.

[hdm5501]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

EasyTune voltage etc per request (this is after I bumped qpi to 1.10v):

[Chike]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

Looks OK i was concerned about the 3.3v but it looks OK in ET.

[hdm5501]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

Well the artifacting happened again. At least the reboot problem is solved, though it seems that was unrelated. I have project to finish up on so I'll probably disable the integrated GPU next week when I'm done with it and see how that goes.

[wazza300]

Re: Video artifact issues with GA-Z68A-D3H-B3?

did you increase igpu memory in bios? and try two/three clicks more igpu voltage?