Answer

This phenomenon is called TDR (Timeout Detection and Recovery), a protection mechanism on Windows system, to prevent any unexpected system crash. TDR may be encountered after updating NVIDIA generic graphics driver under specific user scenarios.

Before NVIDIA provide a fix on the problem, there has been a new BIOS released on MSI website which greatly improves the chances TDR problem may encountered after updating NVIDIA generic graphics driver.

You can download the latest BIOS E1812IMS.11C from here:
http://download.msi.com/bos_exe/nb/E1812IMS.11C.zip

BIOS update guide:
https://www.msi.com/files/pdf/Flash_BIOS_by_UEFI_BIOS_Setup_Utility_en.pdf


Since there are many possible causes which encountered TDR, if updating BIOS doesn’t help with the problem, please refer to the FAQ below for further troubleshooting steps.
https://www.msi.com/asset/global/picture/faq/10015790@2016-0223-0132-016448@faq_0000000002112_en.pdf

Reference

Models

  • GT80 2QC Titan SLI
  • GT80 2QD Titan SLI
  • GT80 2QE Titan SLI