MSI 680GTX crashing black flickering and more

Question

Hello. 
A couple of months ago i found a real good price on a MSI 680 GTX so i switched my 6870 x-fire setup to a single 680.
I ran a cleanersweeper in fail-safe mode and then installed the newest driver available.
Trying to run BF3 with the new setup became a nightmare!
Crashing after anywhere from 1 min to 15min became standard.
(Displaydriver crashing and recovering with "Directx function "getdeviceremovedreason" failed
DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG Device Hung due to badly formed commands.Gpu")
Running the game again after a crash the screen just went black.
But running other games like crysis and planetside 2 worked perfectly!
So I tried the simple solution of doing a clean installation and choose windows 8 as i wanted to try it.
The same thing as with windows 7 repeated itself over again.
Trying to run 3dMark 11 ends with a crash during the combined physx tests.
Stumbled upon some threads talking about LatencyMon and HPET timings (h*tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer)
I tried those programs to see if they could help me out. According to LatencyMon I had problems with audio and video and
the NVidia drivers (nvlddmkm and dxkrnl) as well as usbport.sys and ndis.sys was causing a disturbance so i tried upgrading
the drivers of the network card and my external audio card without improving.
So i tried changing to HPET and enabling it in the bios.
Now all of a sudden BF3 works! (Well thats what i thought anyway...)
This is when I tried running Metro 2033 with af4x dx11 high settings it ran fine, but as soon as i turn on advanced dof it starts to flicker all over
the screen.
But still had problems according to LatencyMon so I did another fresh installation, this time going back to Windows 7 64-bit pro version.
Changing to HPET timings again everything seemed to work. Now the timings looked alot better except for the usbport.
Trying Metro 2033 again and the same results as well as running BF3 gives me black lines flickering now and then.
Trying 3dMark 11 again and it crashes again with the same error again as with windows 8. I even tried running the new 3dMark with the same results.
"Workload work failed with error message:
eva::d3d11::rendering::scene_renderer::render():
draw_depth_task for thread 0: File:
device_context.cpp
Line: 515
Function: struct ID3D11CommandList *__cdecl
eva::d3d11::deferred_device_context::do_finish_command_list(bool)
Expression: native()->FinishCommandList
( restore_deferred_context_state, &result): DX11 call failed.
Device hung due to badly formed commands.
DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG: ID3D11DeviceContext::FinishCommandList: "
This is what ive tried doing in both windows 8 and 7
Trying to change drivers to older ones and even beta didn't do anything.
Changing power cables
Updating bios
Removing the second screen
Removing my G15 and Naos 5000 for simpler models
Ran memorytest for 12h straight without error.
Downclocked the card both memory and clock.
Tried without OC of the CPU.
Running OCCT with error checking gives alot of errors
DxDiag 64bit.txt (43 KB)
h*tps://mega.co.nz/#!BUwW0bgY!AQVveWjrLsDKExTvpdJgllu1hoUQSyu7u_jVO9R XCeg
GK104.rom (179 KB) my gpu bios from gpu-z
h*tps://mega.co.nz/#!0RJSyI7D!IVpL0A2VRb2OdptaLcHzuXKDTrIeqdhX88XXnx5 CGyY
occt errors.png (24 KB) a simple short run of Occt with error checking on
h*tps://mega.co.nz/#!IYxlgK4a!DShyEkbeA9aQL90OgBMtW26T7RlJfvTmqBLml5E dmMI
Should I simply try to get my card replaced or am I forgetting something? 
Hopefully my text is readable and somewhat making sense otherwise please ask me for more info!
Kindly Anders

Answer 1

Quote from: tidsoptimist on 11-February-13, 21:50:11
A couple of months ago i found a real good price on a MSI 680 GTX so i switched my 6870 x-fire setup to a single 680.
I ran a cleanersweeper in fail-safe mode and then installed the newest driver available.
Trying to run BF3 with the new setup became a nightmare!
Crashing after anywhere from 1 min to 15min became standard.
(Displaydriver crashing and recovering with "Directx function "getdeviceremovedreason" failed
DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG Device Hung due to badly formed commands.Gpu")
Running the game again after a crash the screen just went black.
But running other games like crysis and planetside 2 worked perfectly!
Some games need to be reinstalled if you changed the graphics card.
Also, in some cases if you switch from AMD/ATI to Nvidia, you need to reinstall the OS.
Not to mention that BF3 is a buggy game (design flaws).