Bluescreens and Freezing - Hardware & Software

First, Specs: Windows Vista 32bit 3gb Ram Pentium Dual CPU @ 2Gz Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT It started today, Playing Gmod. Game Froze up and played the ungodly BRRRRRR(...) sound, then promptly blue screened. Ok I think, The gamemode is unstable. I start-up fine then decide to play some tf2. 20 Minutes in, BRRRRRRRR. I forced my computer to shut down. I decide to open up my case and check for problems, Clean it. Update my drivers. Later same thing happens. Open it up again, Take the GPU out. Thoroughly inspect it. Appears fine. Plug it back in and upon logon it bluescreens. 2nd attempt 5 min after logon.. Do a system restore to 3 days ago. Come here and type this then it fucks up again, luckily my FF saved it. This time I start up in VGA compatible mode. Fine so far.. Windows says it is a driver error. TL:DR, I keep bluescreening, I think its my GPU/Drivers.

No offense but judging by the "Open it up again, Take the GPU out. Thoroughly inspect it. Appears fine." You sound like the sort of person who thinks everything goes wrong inside your pc, I'm going to hazard a guess you do it often? that could be your problem. If not then try updating your bios, and totally uninstalling all your gpu drivers and re-installing them.

[QUOTE=Prodigy;18980550]No offense but judging by the "Open it up again, Take the GPU out. Thoroughly inspect it. Appears fine." You sound like the sort of person who thinks everything goes wrong inside your pc, I'm going to hazard a guess you do it often? that could be your problem. If not then try updating your bios, and totally uninstalling all your gpu drivers and re-installing them.[/QUOTE] I rarely open up my computer unless its to clean it. I figured the problem was with the GPU because my drivers were updated quite some time before the crash. [editline]10:59PM[/editline] Oh dear, I uninstalled drivers now there's lines running vertically on my monitor.

[QUOTE=Wingedwizard;18980657]I rarely open up my computer unless its to clean it. I figured the problem was with the GPU because my drivers were updated quite some time before the crash.[/QUOTE] Ah my bad then, try going into the device manager and uninstalling them totally. Then reboot into safemode and reinstall them, reboot again and hope.

Drivers were un/re-Installed. Everything [I]appears[/I] to work. [editline]11:30PM[/editline] Fuck. No it just blue screened. Started up in Safemode w/ networking. [editline]11:31PM[/editline] Guess it is indeed time to order that new computer.

Have you installed anything recently? Virus?

Tell us the exact blue screen error.

[QUOTE=Prodigy;18981746]Have you installed anything recently? Virus?[/QUOTE] Haven't downloaded anything but patches for games. And I scanned my computer after the first blue screen. (forgot to mention that :blush:) [editline]11:50PM[/editline] [QUOTE=JDK721;18981899]Tell us the exact blue screen error.[/QUOTE] It disappears and restarts within 2 seconds. It was my first idea to write what it said down. But it disappeared to quickly. [editline]12:01AM[/editline] I have to sleep now, I will see what the thread has produced in the morning.

[QUOTE=Wingedwizard;18981914]Haven't downloaded anything but patches for games. And I scanned my computer after the first blue screen. (forgot to mention that :blush:) [editline]11:50PM[/editline] It disappears and restarts within 2 seconds. It was my first idea to write what it said down. But it disappeared to quickly. [editline]12:01AM[/editline] I have to sleep now, I will see what the thread has produced in the morning.[/QUOTE] [quote]You can disable automatic restart by right clicking mycomputer>Properties>Advanced>Startup and recovery>settings and look for automatic restart[/quote] This will prevent the bluescreen from dissapearing straight away

Unfortunately, I remove the card and tried to boot it up. OS failed to boot. Stuck in a spare 8600, OS failed to boot. [editline]05:07PM[/editline] Posting from a spare computer fyi