• Black Screen getting worse.
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So now, during a game of Half-life 2, I'm on the part where I'm fighting the helicopter to get into Eli's lab. The helicopter drops bombs like crazy. BAM, computer freeze, screen goes black, I do a computer restart. My Dad thinks it's Steam, he says he may uninstall Steam and take everything off my computer, I tell him it's just my computer graphics card.
First off, tell him the problem isn't steam.
How come parents automatically think its the kids/something the kid installeds fault? [editline]10:24PM[/editline] Its probably you graphics card. Try updating your drivers.
[QUOTE=DanTehMan;17184533]First off, tell him the problem isn't steam.[/QUOTE] I tried. He's standard reply: "Yeah, bullshit." At above: I don't feel like fucking up my computer. If you have a link to where I could update, could I get it?
[QUOTE=Lt Kyle;17184603]I tried. He's standard reply: "Yeah, bullshit." At above: I don't feel like fucking up my computer. If you have a link to where I could update, could I get it?[/QUOTE] Morbidly convince your father how executables don't crash a graphics display. [editline]06:30PM[/editline] My dad thought Steam was the reason his/my old PC was crashing, when it was really a melting motherboard. He left the PC on for months
[QUOTE=Beau Phos;17184634]Morbidly convince your father how executables don't crash a graphics display.[/QUOTE] I went to him before I read your comment, I tried convincing him HL2 graphics are a bit too high for my Graphics card, So I'm gonna wait a bit, if nothing changes, I'll try and update. But I still need a link to something so I can update without fucking up my computer.
Find out what graphics card you have, go to the manufacturer website, then you should be able to figure out the rest in the "Update Drivers" section, or something like that.
[QUOTE=Beau Phos;17184708]Find out what graphics card you have, go to the manufacturer website, then you should be able to figure out the rest in the "Update Drivers" section, or something like that.[/QUOTE] I have a ATI Radeon 9550 / x1050 Series, Processor: ATI Radeon Graphics Processor AGP. =/ Off to Update Drivers Section. Edit: There is no Update Driver section. >.>
link him to this page. it'll prove to him that you're right :dance:
Its for Nvidia cards, but may help (same problem) Heres the list be sure to try it from top to bottom. 1: Heat Cause: Nvidia "Nerfed" the fan control speed and its now SET at 60% fixed speed and WILL NOT MOVE How to fix?: [url]http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163[/url] Download Rivatuner from guru3d.com and hard overide the NVidia fan control to set it to 100% at all times, yes its noisy but even at 100% damn thing wont go under 65c IMHO still to hot but def better than 100+ water boiling. Extra info on the problem: Nvidia says the GPU is fine up to 147celcius, IMHO, i dont care what Nvidia says, if i cant handle it with my hands, i dont want it inside my case, and since they "decided" to "nerf" the fan controller the card runs hotter than ever, this is usually the most common cause for the "it hangs every 30 mins or so of gaming" problem, if its not the actual nvidia card overheating thats causing the hang its somethign else in your board locking up due to the nvidia card overheating it way over its intended heat range, namely your PCI-E controller, chipset or some other circuit getting 100c air being blown direcly over itand making IT lock up. 2:PSU Wiring Cause: Massive flat out raw power draw from this card under heavy load How to fix?: Give Your Majesty its own personal rails for its sole and exclusive use, do not let any other "peasants" get near its personal rails. Extra info on the problem: This card is insane, it REQUIRES 2 full rails ONLY for itself. so make sure the 2 rails you are connecting to the cards power plugs are 100% independent of each other and do NOT use rails with other devices in them, the cables have to be straight PSU to Vid card and thats it nothing else, i put 3 rails SPECIFICALLY for the card on mine and works fine. 3river Cause: Nvidia needs to learn to play and learn to code when it comes to drivers How to fix?: Get the new beta driver ForceWare 160.03 (Yes 160.03) [url]http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1633[/url] Extra info on the problem: Nvidia loves to keep good stuff unavailable and make us hate it even more, somehow guru3d got a hold of the 160.03 leaked beta drivers and modded them SPECIFICALLY to fix most BSODS, by changing the way it reads and writes to system memory, install these and be happy ever after, no more BSODS. 4: Windows Settings Multisampling off Cause: No idea, im guessing its related to how system memory is read when this setting is on. How to fix: Turn off Multisampling, it is said BSODs stop in most situations when this is turned off 5: IRQ Conflicts Cause: Windows is retarded, Plug and Play Bios are retarded, and seems none of them can figure out that putting a MONSTER in a jail cell with a puny man both sharing the same toilet, wont end up nicely. How to fix": 1:Reset your BIOS to clear the PnP PCI IRQ assignment tables and force it to reassign new ones. 2:Change the "Offending" card from slot and pray it gets assigned a new IRQ (im saying offending because HOW DARE HE use up the 8800's personal IRQ, its blasphemy) 3:Slap it into the last PCI slot, with luck your board is one of those "Last PCI slot has no IRQ set or will get a personal IRQ" and youll be in buisness. 3isable it. Give up, The 8800 is to powerfull, what ever is sharing the interrupt with the 8800 has to die, Disable it and let Ms 8800 have its own IRQ at the cost of killing what ever else was there in the first place, if you dont like this you can thank Mr Bill Gates for it. Extra info on the Problem: I wonder when SOMEONE will come up with a MANUAL way to set interrupts instead of this Jack-in-the-Box rat suprize way of doing it. (NO, the "Properties" way of doing it stopped working back in 1998 and ISA card slots, in case you hadnt noticed so please stop saying theres a "way" to manually set interrupts when there CLEARLY isnt, if there was one i think wed know about it already and wouldnt be asking for one) 6: Audigy X-fi, Cause: Theres SOMETHING in the way the X-Fi reads memory that the 8800 doesnt like.. it feels like it has to compete so it constantly takes jabs at the X-fi untill they both crash. add that to the X-fi being just as/or worse than/ the 8800 when it comes to IRQ assignment and you got a helluva mix How to fix: Theres 3 ways to fix this: 1: Remove it, unless you REAAAAAALLY need/want your X-fi and are willing to spend the next 3 days making it work then proceed with step 2 otherwise just remove it right now and rid urself of a pain. 2: Change it from PCI Slot untill it hits an IRQ that is not as critical and disable what ever is sharing an IRQ with it. 2: Stick in last slot and pray. it MAY work... if it doesnt, go back to step 1 Extra info on the problem: Creative is as paranoid as the RIAA with its software and licenses and as bad at making drivers as Nvidia and/or ATI, what do you get when you combine both? you dont wanna know. 7: PCI-E 16x 75w+ power drain Cause: your board doesnt support heavy draw cards on its PCI-E Bus How to fix: Get a new Board Extra info on the problem: Some boards got spare juice connectors on them to power the extra draw some cards generate on the PCI-E slots, if yours has this, use it. 8: Stick of RAM Removal Cause: Something with the memory interface doesnt work right with the 8800 drivers How to Fix: Remove a stick of ram or move it to the oposite channel to force the computer into Single Channel mode. Extra info on the problem: By removing a stick of RAM and "downgrading" the machine to Single channel instead of dual channel, forces the 8800 to "calm down" and "play fair" when it reads the system memory bus so BSODS magially stop when the 8800 stops being a pain with the other peripherals 9: PCI-E Slot Cause: The PCI-E Slot you are plugging it in either is not 16X or the board isnt making it work properly How to fix: Change the card from slot into a secondary or slave slot and see if it works there. 10: Bios Updates Cause: Crappy Bios releases (See Bad Axe 2 Original Bios or Asus Stryker Original Bios) make the computer not know WTF to do with the 8800 or how to even read memory properly How to fix: Install your motherboards latest Bios. Extra info on the problem: When my board came out the damn thing couldnt even boot up properly, it had all kinds of errors, with the new BIOS its working fine, hell the Asus striker a friend had wouldnt even load up vista because it refused to properly detect the DRAMM Timings of its very expensive ram causing it to lock up so always keep your bios up to date, Motherboard manufacturers, release hardware first and suport later so dont expect stuff to work right out of the box 11: DRAMM Timing/Voltage Cause: The 8800 driver has a Paris Hilton complex, in which it believes it owns the computer and all its resources, and it can take what ever it wants without needing to ask. How to Fix?: Increase your Dram Voltage to 2.1 Volts and 5-5-5-15 (for DDR2 800) for other RAMs check ur provider, make sure the ram has spare leeway for "accidents" and dont time it too tight, this is to give it a small cushion for when the 8800 draws data from the system ram, when it does this it wreaks havock on the rams timings and voltages, causing ram errors and eventually BSODS Extra info on the problem: The 8800 driver design is crap, it basically acts like a 4 year old bully when playing in the motherboard sandbox with other peripherals, when it wants to read the system memory directly from the PCI-E bus it just goes ahead and forcefully takes the data without asking anyone, usually Cheap crappy RAM being the Hobo that it is gets bullied and doesnt complain, but Expensive high performance RAM doesnt like to put up with that kinda crap from anyone, expecially not comming from Ms. 8800 Paris Hilton so whats it do? its tells the 8800 he can go ahead and take its memory "request" and shove it up its.... and well the Mommy windows doesnt like when kids fight so she takes the ball from them both and tells them game is over in the form of a nice BSOD in your face. 12: Underclocking Cause: Nvidia Cannot overclock its own chips for its life. How to fix?: [url]http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=163[/url] Install Riva Tuner and Software Underclock your Factory overclocked card back to its INTENDED SPEFICICATIONS. and watch as magically the BSODS stop. Extra info on the problem: Out of 2 factory overclocked cards (1 EVGA, 1 BFG) both gave me BSODS, i manually Under-Clocked them back to their intended original speed and guess what? no more BSODs.. how strange.... ive read if you overclock the cards yourself is fine but never buy a factory overclocked card, after this im sure as hell learning from my mistakes. Myths about this card (At least the ones i found) 1: Its NOT your PSU If you have a decent NEW PSU that says SLI ready and has 480+ Watts your good to go, despite what other people tell you its NOT the PSU, its the 8800 Card. 2: Its NOT your RAM As long as you got NORMAL, STOCK ram that hasnt been touched by a dirty overclocker, you are fine, DO NOT MESS WITH YOUR RAM, the 8800 is VERY picky when it messes with your ram, if you mess with it and then it messes with it youll have serious BSODS comming up. 3: Its NOT your CPU Self explaining, as long as you got a 3 year old or less CPU your good to go 4: Its NOT your Motherboard Unless you have an Nvidia chipset board or some other cheap chinese board, then your problem is your motherboard which isnt compatible even with itself, but thats another story. As a rule of thumb on boards that has yet to fail me, if it costed 150+ bucks, then its good, if it costed less and thats its REAL MSRP price then you have a crap board and I suggest you get a new one. 5: Its NOT your other cards Unless you got a creative X-fi card, then u got serious issues.;
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