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Random Reboots (Video Drivers)

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:16 am
by SOAPboy
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?

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:06 am
by SOAPboy
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..

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:11 am
by SOAPboy
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..

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:12 pm
by SOAPboy
Sigh.. Still getting reboots.. happens when im doing heavy HD kinda stuff.. What the FUCK..

Sigh..

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:22 pm
by bork[e]
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. :D

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:22 pm
by SOAPboy
no extra PCIE video card..

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:44 pm
by Pext
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.

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:46 pm
by SOAPboy
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!

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:46 pm
by SOAPboy
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?

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:53 pm
by Pext
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)

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:58 pm
by SOAPboy
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..

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:59 pm
by Pext
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 . :confused:

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:02 pm
by SOAPboy
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 . :confused:
Ive had weirder things happen, but my guess is running that mem test all night sorted something out..


:paranoid:

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:06 pm
by Tormentius
T&T :icon10:

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:10 pm
by SOAPboy
Tormentius wrote:T&T :icon10:
*hugs*

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:10 pm
by Foo
This really should be in T&T

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:11 pm
by Freakaloin
jesus...

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:51 pm
by SOAPboy
Foo wrote:This really should be in T&T
*kiss*