Need advice

[Dangermouse]

Hi all,

I am experiencing a problem where my pc crashes when performing graphics intensive tasks.

To be more specific, the screen gets filled with vertical bars about 0.33cm wide. The color differs(red, green, blue, grey). My pc then restarts itself. Sometimes but not very often it does recover and does not restart, the mouse pointer is then screwed up and weird lines on the desktop. I also receive a message saying "Graphics drivers have failed but have recovered" from windows.

I could test this by taking out my gpu and using on board, but then I will not know whether it is the PCI-E slot on the mobo or the GPU itself.

Any ideas???

 

[Sonic2k]

Graphics card... kaput!

 

[Sl8er]

Hi all,

I am experiencing a problem where my pc crashes when performing graphics intensive tasks.

To be more specific, the screen gets filled with vertical bars about 0.33cm wide. The color differs(red, green, blue, grey). My pc then restarts itself. Sometimes but not very often it does recover and does not restart, the mouse pointer is then screwed up and weird lines on the desktop. I also receive a message saying "Graphics drivers have failed but have recovered" from windows.

I could test this by taking out my gpu and using on board, but then I will not know whether it is the PCI-E slot on the mobo or the GPU itself.

Any ideas???

I had something similar after acquiring a new gpu a couple of years back. I was also convinced it was the gpu...but it turned out to be my ram! There was nothing wrong with the graphics card.

So, just something to keep in mind.

Hope you get to the bottom of it, good luck!

 

[PsyWulf]

Heat,voltage(psu),GPU,RAM,Motherboard could all be at fault
Open the case and put a big fan blowing on the PC,see how se fares

Try Memtest
Try Prime95 to generate tons of heat without using the GPU

What voltages and temperatures is your system reporting?

 

[AthenianOwl]

Hi all,

I am experiencing a problem where my pc crashes when performing graphics intensive tasks.

To be more specific, the screen gets filled with vertical bars about 0.33cm wide. The color differs(red, green, blue, grey). My pc then restarts itself. Sometimes but not very often it does recover and does not restart, the mouse pointer is then screwed up and weird lines on the desktop. I also receive a message saying "Graphics drivers have failed but have recovered" from windows.

I could test this by taking out my gpu and using on board, but then I will not know whether it is the PCI-E slot on the mobo or the GPU itself.

Any ideas???

Did you recently install the latest nvidia driver?

 

[Venomous]

I had something similar after acquiring a new gpu a couple of years back. I was also convinced it was the gpu...but it turned out to be my ram! There was nothing wrong with the graphics card.

So, just something to keep in mind.

Hope you get to the bottom of it, good luck!

If it is the RAM, is more likely to be due to bad contact

take a clean white eraser and clean the copper contacts on the ram.
If it still causes problems after that, it is really faulty.

 

[wez1007]

id get this and burn it to a cd.
Reboot your pc into it and let it run for an hour or so. If any errors appear itll show up as red text/red lines of text. Probably the easiest way to rule out memory...

I had a GPU die on me not so long ago (i saw the signs but left it too late to claim on warranty) Same sort of thing. I have seen memory do this though...

If it is the RAM, is more likely to be due to bad contact

take a clean white eraser and clean the copper contacts on the ram.
If it still causes problems after that, it is really faulty.

Ive heard a few people tell me this... Ive honestly never found the eraser trick to work.
My method is to run memtest off the UBCD and if i get errors I re-seat it and run it once more. If its still giving me errors it gets snapped in half and chucked in a bin.