I've had my PC for about 8 months now, and it's beginning to freeze up completely during games and sometimes even during Youtube videos.
At first it would freeze my computer for a few seconds, and then come back to normal with a pop-up saying "Nvidia kernal driver xxx.xx has stopped working and recovered".
But now my computer will just completely freeze at random times when I am playing a game, the sound will stutter to the last millisecond of sound that was playing (making a "BR-R-R-R" sound), and I cant do anything but force power off my computer and restart it.
I have my drivers updated/reinstalled, and I've dusted out my computer fairly well, yet the problem still persists.
I'm pretty sure it is my graphics card, but I'm not sure what exactly the problem is.
Specs:
[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/v7h3s4.jpg[/IMG]
It's most likely the card. I've posted a lot about this (yes, I know, I'm complaining a fuckload) and I have the same issue. I crash, and freeze occasionally.
Do you get random artifacting before the crash at all?
[QUOTE=Saza;35348243]It's most likely the card. I've posted a lot about this (yes, I know, I'm complaining a fuckload) and I have the same issue. I crash, and freeze occasionally.
Do you get random artifacting before the crash at all?[/QUOTE]
Yes, but only rarely.
I'm kind of confused as to how the card could have died out though, because I haven't had it for very long and my PC runs fairly cool.
It's not dead, it's windows TDRs afaik.
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff569918(v=vs.85).aspx[/url]
these might help you; I'm testing currently.
Mine started a few days after getting the card in. Still haven't found a good solution, and nVidia is working on it (or so I'd assume with the amount of users reporting the issue)
[QUOTE=Saza;35348659]It's not dead, it's windows TDRs afaik.
[url]http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff569918(v=vs.85).aspx[/url]
these might help you; I'm testing currently.
Mine started a few days after getting the card in. Still haven't found a good solution, and nVidia is working on it (or so I'd assume with the amount of users reporting the issue)[/QUOTE]
Well, I just did a system restore to see if that would help.
So if the Windows TDRs are the problem, is it still a threat to my hardware? Or can I rest easy knowing there will be just be an update for it in the future?
[editline]29th March 2012[/editline]
Thanks for the help by the way :)
Jesus I don't blame you for complaining about these issues, because all the crashes I'm experiencing are getting on my nerves.
Really thinking about switching to ATI for my next card, unless Nvidia gets this shit fixed.
Do a Memtest.
[url]http://www.memtest.org/#downiso[/url]
[QUOTE=Chocolate.;35353425]Jesus I don't blame you for complaining about these issues, because all the crashes I'm experiencing are getting on my nerves.
Really thinking about switching to ATI for my next card, unless Nvidia gets this shit fixed.[/QUOTE]
yes, it's annoying
no, it shouldn't affect hardware.
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