Hey,
With any driver my rivatuners monitoring program gives strange readings on the voltage and current monitoring lines.
Take a look at at this picture. It's an example of the type of readings I get and I've seen worse ones like this.
http://users.telenet.be/denthomas/AOA/monitoring.JPG
It is driver and clockspeed unrelated.
I also have stability problems which may be unrelated to these monitoring readings. Usually monitoring software is rather unreliable but I don't trust this for one bit.
My stability issues always happen in the same 3d games in exactly the same way with exactly the same error message. It also happens with any driver and at any clockspeed. A description:
In Trackmania nations I have a chance to get a hardware lockup during the server listing screen. It may happen within 2secs to 5 minutes. Usually if I'm fast enough at choosing a server I can play as long as I want with temperatures not exceeding 75°C.
In the Heroes 5 demo I can get the same kind of lockup during normal play. It never happens during combat however. The lockup happens in the same timeframe as with the above stated lockup.
I have had other games doing this and sometimes it stopped doing that. It almost appears as if the card can't cope with a specific graphic feature used in those games locking my system up. I'm totally stable otherwise and in most other games or benches.
The lockups always give me this error message:
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The driver nv4_disp for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.
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The errors source is "nv" and it is event nr. 108.
I have tried a dozen drivers like official, modded or WHQL ones. I'm pretty much out of options. I bought this card 2nd hand from some bloke a the nearest town. He has been promising me the invoice of his purchase of the card for over a year and I have not heard from him in several months. It may be time for a surprise visit.