GPU crashes, need help
Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:33 am
Alright, I had my computer HDs crash. So I replaced them. My fan on my GPU was going bad, so I got a better HSF for it.
When I went to reinstall XP I found out that I lost my legit CD when I moved. So in deciding what do due, due to my lack of a desire to buy XP and then Vista, I found out that Vista had a "RC3" released.
So I figured I'd save a $100 till Vista was boxed and then would upgrade.
So I installed and everything went fine.
I did notice a couple of things. Company of Heroes at times artifacted for me, but never crashed and the artifacting was minimal. I figured it was just driver issues, since I had asked around and said that sometimes it acted up with Vista.
Well, I just install FEAR:EP and played it. Within 2 minutes of playing it it crashed on me. Blue Screen (The one that tells you that you have a HW failure and dumps the memory) came up, dumped the memory and rebooted.
I went to BIOS and checked if I had it OCed at all. FSB was at 202 on my DFI SLI-D Ultra Nforce4. So I backed that down.
Started up FEAR:EP, got the same artifacting and virtually in the same room the thing Blue Screened for me a second time.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me about how to fix this?
Also, is there a way to check the temp on my GPU? I know my MB has the ability to do it for my CPU. Where do I look to tell me what went wrong so I can start looking for a fix.
I recently ran memtest and everything was fine.
Specs:
DFI SLI-D Ultra Nforce 4
AMD X2 3800+
2 Gigs of RAM
eVGA 7800 GT 256MB of RAM
Audigy2 ZS
When I went to reinstall XP I found out that I lost my legit CD when I moved. So in deciding what do due, due to my lack of a desire to buy XP and then Vista, I found out that Vista had a "RC3" released.
So I figured I'd save a $100 till Vista was boxed and then would upgrade.
So I installed and everything went fine.
I did notice a couple of things. Company of Heroes at times artifacted for me, but never crashed and the artifacting was minimal. I figured it was just driver issues, since I had asked around and said that sometimes it acted up with Vista.
Well, I just install FEAR:EP and played it. Within 2 minutes of playing it it crashed on me. Blue Screen (The one that tells you that you have a HW failure and dumps the memory) came up, dumped the memory and rebooted.
I went to BIOS and checked if I had it OCed at all. FSB was at 202 on my DFI SLI-D Ultra Nforce4. So I backed that down.
Started up FEAR:EP, got the same artifacting and virtually in the same room the thing Blue Screened for me a second time.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me about how to fix this?
Also, is there a way to check the temp on my GPU? I know my MB has the ability to do it for my CPU. Where do I look to tell me what went wrong so I can start looking for a fix.
I recently ran memtest and everything was fine.
Specs:
DFI SLI-D Ultra Nforce 4
AMD X2 3800+
2 Gigs of RAM
eVGA 7800 GT 256MB of RAM
Audigy2 ZS
