Random Reboots (Video Drivers)

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:16 am

Anyone heard anything "bad" bout the 7800GTXs yet? Ive been having constant reboots and there totally random.. Driving me bonkers honestly..

WHEN it reports an error, its saying the video drivers are the problem, and its due to them going idle or something?

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:06 am

Seems it might of been ram not liking slots 1&3.. there in 2&4 now and seems to be working ok..

Yes, black reboots.. no bsod at all :-|

A64 3000
2x1024 OCZ pc3200
Evga 7800GTX
Evga something or nother board.. came with card

Bleh.. seems stable now tho.. dunno.. *shrug

I just dont get why ram would be the issue from a driver crashing.. i did end up rolling back to the lucky 7 drivers tho..

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:11 am

Memphis wrote:My money's on the driver change rather than the RAM
Unless your RAM was loose or something and changing slots corrected that.

Hope it holds up. Random crashes for no obvous reason are bloody irritating

Well i still got a few reboots with the drivers.. my moneys on the ram..

I HOPE it holds up as well.. tho im also hoping if the rams gonna die, it does it soon, because i need to RMA the shit before i ship my old machine off to whoever buys it..

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:12 pm

Sigh.. Still getting reboots.. happens when im doing heavy HD kinda stuff.. What the FUCK..

Sigh..

Post by **bork[e]** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:22 pm

heh, one nice little problem you've got there.

You got a extra vid. card laying around you can do some testing with? I would bet that RAM was just a little off of where it shoudl have been, a gentle little push back home might have done them good instead of moving them.

anywho, GL.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:22 pm

no extra PCIE video card..

Post by **Pext** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:44 pm

for RAM testing, get prime95 from mersenne.org. but sometimes, if your MB is misconfigured, you'll get an error as well.

and, i guess you use XP, you should turn the auto reboot option off so you get the blue screen info.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:46 pm

Ran Memtester for 12 hours..

No errors..

Just installed HL2, which i tried to install 100 times last night and it kept rebooting.. didnt reboot..

WHAT THE FUCKLE YO!

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:46 pm

Pext wrote:
and, i guess you use XP, you should turn the auto reboot option off so you get the blue screen info.

Wheres that at?

Post by **Pext** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:53 pm

start

controll panel

system

advanced

somewhere; one of the first three options.

as i use a german XP version, i'm not 100% certain wether the names of the steps are the right ones but you should get the idea.
(if not, i'll look it up on my notebook where i have an english XP version installed)

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:58 pm

Pext wrote:start controll panel system advanced somewhere; one of the first three options.

as i use a german XP version, i'm not 100% certain wether the names of the steps are the right ones but you should get the idea.
(if not, i'll look it up on my notebook where i have an english XP version installed)

Found it..

Thanks

Still no crashes as of yet.. fucking weird..

Post by **Pext** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:59 pm

heh... yeah. i had the same problem with WC3 some time back, i had crashes every second game... now they only occur 1/10 games and i did not change a single thing .

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:02 pm

Pext wrote:heh... yeah. i had the same problem with WC3 some time back, i had crashes every second game... now they only occur 1/10 games and i did not change a single thing .

Ive had weirder things happen, but my guess is running that mem test all night sorted something out..

Post by **Tormentius** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:06 pm

T&T :icon10:

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:10 pm

Tormentius wrote:T&T :icon10:

*hugs*

Post by **Foo** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:10 pm

This really should be in T&T

Post by **Freakaloin** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:11 pm

jesus...

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:51 pm

Foo wrote:This really should be in T&T

*kiss*