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| 843097 | 2009-12-25 11:30:00 | I am having a problem where seemingly randomly, it could be over an hour or it could be 5 minutes, while playing certain games (chronicles of Riddick escape from Butcher bay, Borderlands and Batman Arkham asylum) suddenly the graphics signal from the computer stops (Monitor displays the No Signal message.) but sometimes the music will keep playing and will stop if I press ctrl+alt+Delete but the computer wont shut down. when I restart the computer usually everything will be normal sometimes there will be a message saying that windows has recovered from a serous error. at first I thought it might be the Graphics card overheating but when I tried stress testing the GPU using rthdribl for about an hour with 99% GPU utalisation the temp never went over 66C, and I played Batman for over 2 hours in windowed mode with no problems and I also left it running for some time after. I don't have anything over clocked and I have tried swapping the DVI cable, wipeing the graphics driver and reinstalling it, taking the card out and cleaning the contacts, using different resolution with no luck. system specks Windows XP (hope to get windows 7 soon) Radeon HD 4670 (hope to get a 5770 when I get some money together) ASUS M2N68-AM Plus AMD 7750 Black Dual-core Compaq WF1907 Monitor any help would be greatly appreciated thank you. |
zarx (13402) | ||
| 843098 | 2009-12-25 12:08:00 | Could be a problem with the video card? Happened to me once this gone on for around 3 weeks before the card eventually caved in and just starting giving discolouration and stripes on my monitor. And don't get windows 7 its soo much trouble i have it on my laptop and i regret it | chuanwai (12518) | ||
| 843099 | 2009-12-25 12:11:00 | What probs are you having with win7?? I had a prob, I think the videocard didnt have enough ram (256). So, got a 512mb card | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 843100 | 2009-12-25 17:21:00 | Probably the graphics card on the way out. I don't suppose you can borrow one from a mate? And there are no problems with Win 7 it works fine so much better than Vista did at first and since you have a desktop it's easy to upgrade any components that might be up to scratch. I don't understand people who buy a laptop and then expect it to behave like a desktop |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 843101 | 2009-12-25 23:20:00 | You are having a BSOD crash (blue screen of death) but it must be related to the video card and is happening when there is a video problem, as you can't see it. You can look in event viewer and find out what the error codes were, when it said "system has recovered from a serious error" Then we can try to work out what is going on What is your PSU? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 843102 | 2009-12-27 08:23:00 | well I have been seting up windows 7 (xmas gift) and after taking some time to to play some games for an hour I havn'y had any problems so for now I am hopeing it was a software problem wrather than a hardware one. | zarx (13402) | ||
| 843103 | 2009-12-27 10:09:00 | Could well be, I have often had crashes with new games and old drivers (video and sound are the worst for doing it) | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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