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vardan33

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Hello i am having another problem, this time almost everything is working. Well i got all my drivers installed and working. When my hardware acceleration meter is all the way up with write combing enabled my pc freezes about every 5- to 10 minutes, then the screen turns on and off like 3 times then stays there for a while(on that frozen screen) then reboots. And sometimes when i turn on my computer it loads windows on a blue screen. Its like baby blue and its only my mouse. It stays like that for 10 minutes then restarts. I have the newest driver and everything is new (bios other drivers etc.). So i got this error in xp telling me to put my hardware acceleration meter on no acceleration and un check the writing box. So now i put these settings and I cant play any games, but my pc never crashes. So i put back the setting to max still had the same problem as before. I tried the in between setting but only works when disabled.Is there anything i can do to make everything function normally and my pc not freeze(have hardware acceleration enabled etc.)
PS: my ps is good enough and is there any chance my card is damaged?
 
No one's going to answer you with the lacking explanation of your problem.

"my computer froze and flickered whats wrong?" what happens when you try to play games?

Acceleration should always be maximum...
 
vardan33 said:
Hello i am having another problem, this time almost everything is working. Well i got all my drivers installed and working. When my hardware acceleration meter is all the way up with write combing enabled my pc freezes about every 5- to 10 minutes, then the screen turns on and off like 3 times then stays there for a while(on that frozen screen) then reboots. And sometimes when i turn on my computer it loads windows on a blue screen. Its like baby blue and its only my mouse. It stays like that for 10 minutes then restarts. I have the newest driver and everything is new (bios other drivers etc.). So i got this error in xp telling me to put my hardware acceleration meter on no acceleration and un check the writing box. So now i put these settings and I cant play any games. So i put back the setting to max still had the same problem as before. I tried the in between setting but only works when disabled.Is there anything i can do to make everything function normally and my pc not freeze(have hardware acceleration enabled etc.)
PS: my ps is good enough and is there any chance my card is damaged?
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well this is the best i can explain it
 
vardan33 said:
plZ help i cant us e my games:( :mad:
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Are you sure your PSU is good enough? What make and model is it? What video card are you running and exactly what drivers are they? What is your motherboard and which chipset drivers are you running?

Have you checked the video card out in another system to see? Maybe borrow someones video card and try it out in your machine.
 
Well my psu is one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=535w+&x=0&y=0 so it should be good enouph. It is an xfx 470 core 7900gt my chipset drivers are the newest and all motherboard stuff is newest. Well i know my card is good because I was playing stalker for like an hour on it in my computer when one day everything was working it was yesterday so it should work today. Currently the graphic drivers are the 158 drivers but i had tried many other drivers.
 
vardan33 said:
Well my psu is one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=535w+&x=0&y=0 so it should be good enouph. It is an xfx 470 core 7900gt my chipset drivers are the newest and all motherboard stuff is newest. Well i know my card is good because I was playing stalker for like an hour on it in my computer when one day everything was working it was yesterday so it should work today. Currently the graphic drivers are the 158 drivers but i had tried many other drivers.
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Hmmm your problem is very strange then i would try using system restore to go back to how you where when it was working. Something happened between then and now that you missed.
 
ya i did system restore to that point but then it gave me that baby blue screen with just the mouse i described earlier. It is indeed very weird.
 
Try reformatting your computer and re-installing your OS then im stumped. If that dont fix it RMA the card for a replacement.
 
pfunkman said:
Try reformatting your computer and re-installing your OS then im stumped. If that dont fix it RMA the card for a replacement.
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well i dont know if should reformat. Could i repair xp? And it shouldnt be damaged works in vista and was working a friday.
 
7900Gt what motherboard...sounds like it was working fine at one point....

By the way the 158.19 and 158.18 driver do not support that Card!!!!Those are 8600 and 8800 only drivers....

There is a know issue with 6800--7800-7900-and some 7950 which with the 93.31 or higher drivers can cause THREAD STUCK IN DRIVER ERROR will BSOD ===bluscreen with out any 3d application running .... causes black screen and flickering of display usually followed by a crash and reboot with out showing a blue screen ...After this happens a couple of time youll almost always get the blue screen....

here is the link from Microsoft on the BSOD /

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293078

happens with cards that are Oced more than stock ones, but is a Nvidia driver problem...

Solution is to use the 91.31 driver or the beta 93.81 for those cards its aproblem with thier uninstaller/installer function wich leaves behind remnants of old driver...In other words it dosnt install driver Cleanly.

At this time is only thing i can think of for you if you said it used to be fine then you posted the 158driver which is for 8600/8800cards only.. hope that helps
 
vardan33 said:
well i dont know if should reformat. Could i repair xp? And it shouldnt be damaged works in vista and was working a friday.
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Oh yeah the 158driver is vista too isnt it ....If you have XP use 91.31 Xpdriver ...Make sure you uninstall((( Nvdia display driver only)))) and click yes to delete saved profiles,Shut down Pc remove card from PciE slot ,Reseat Video Card in slot then boot up and install the 91.31Nvidia Driver repost when done if you have XPinstalled
 
!gOtVolTage! said:
7900Gt what motherboard...sounds like it was working fine at one point....

By the way the 158.19 and 158.18 driver do not support that Card!!!!Those are 8600 and 8800 only drivers....
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Where did you hear this?? I have the 158.18 running on vista with my 7800GS. In fact they are listed right on Nvidias page as the current drivers for the 7 series and vista.
 
vardan33 said:
well i dont know if should reformat. Could i repair xp? And it shouldnt be damaged works in vista and was working a friday.
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I was very stumped at the Problems i was having was almost ready to RMA my vid card and submitted a bug report to Microsoft after a blueScreen ....This is how i came about this info for you guys and i see there are Lots of People with this PRoblem in game forums and Nvidia Forums...
 
Release Highlights:

Updated April 18, 2007: Added NVIDIA SLI profile for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Adds support for GeForce 8600 GTS, GeForce 8600 GT, and GeForce 8500 GT, GeForce 8400 GS, and GeForce 8300 GS GPUs.
Increased performance in 3D applications.
Numerous game and application compatibility fixes.
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.1 support.
Please read the release notes for more information on product support, feature limitations, and known compatibility issues.
PureVideo™ HD support is currently only available on Microsoft® Windows™ Vista

Product Support List Windows XP 32-bit – 158.19

GeForce 8300 GS
GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 8800 GTS
GeForce 8800 GTX

Please note that this driver currently only supports GeForce 8800 series. If you need a driver for other NVIDIA GPUs, please visit www.nvidia.com/drivers and select the driver for your product.

Under Vista is a different story....It pays to Read the Release notes guys come on
 
!gOtVolTage! said:
7900Gt what motherboard...sounds like it was working fine at one point....

By the way the 158.19 and 158.18 driver do not support that Card!!!!Those are 8600 and 8800 only drivers....

There is a know issue with 6800--7800-7900-and some 7950 which with the 93.31 or higher drivers can cause THREAD STUCK IN DRIVER ERROR will BSOD ===bluscreen with out any 3d application running .... causes black screen and flickering of display usually followed by a crash and reboot with out showing a blue screen ...After this happens a couple of time youll almost always get the blue screen....

here is the link from Microsoft on the BSOD /

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293078

happens with cards that are Oced more than stock ones, but is a Nvidia driver problem...

Solution is to use the 91.31 driver or the beta 93.81 for those cards its aproblem with thier uninstaller/installer function wich leaves behind remnants of old driver...In other words it dosnt install driver Cleanly.

At this time is only thing i can think of for you if you said it used to be fine then you posted the 158driver which is for 8600/8800cards only.. hope that helps
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wow bro im very exited. This sounds exactly like whats happening im gonna get on it asap. And the drivers are modified or something. My mobo is asrock dual vsta if you still wanna know.

Thank you very much even if doesnt work
 
This is a on going problem with Nvidia I almost RMA two cards because of these driver issues and when the cards work they work great.....thats why im keeping my 8600GTS instead of my 7950 lol


Just so you Know if the screen BSOD's and you can send bug report and it does it with every driver .......It mostlikely your Video Card Can not communicate with the driver any more cuz of the thread not being released ....Which would result in a HARDWARE FAILURE...then u RMA Card so try the driver i suggested first then the Beta


the Asrock aint all that bad board but hard for stable drivers XP/and some Vista if ya have a dual boot youll get some problem eventually with the Nvidia driver that are new right now!!!
 
!gOtVolTage! said:
Release Highlights:

Updated April 18, 2007: Added NVIDIA SLI profile for Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
Adds support for GeForce 8600 GTS, GeForce 8600 GT, and GeForce 8500 GT, GeForce 8400 GS, and GeForce 8300 GS GPUs.
Increased performance in 3D applications.
Numerous game and application compatibility fixes.
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c and OpenGL® 2.1 support.
Please read the release notes for more information on product support, feature limitations, and known compatibility issues.
PureVideo™ HD support is currently only available on Microsoft® Windows™ Vista

Product Support List Windows XP 32-bit – 158.19

GeForce 8300 GS
GeForce 8400 GS
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 8800 GTS
GeForce 8800 GTX

Please note that this driver currently only supports GeForce 8800 series. If you need a driver for other NVIDIA GPUs, please visit www.nvidia.com/drivers and select the driver for your product.

Under Vista is a different story....It pays to Read the Release notes guys come on
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Remind me what i said about the 158.19 drivers sheesh you should read the release notes all im saying is you falsely said that both sets of the drivers are 8800 series only which is wrong the 158.18 drivers are 8,7 and 6 series cards but vista only.

OP Uninstall the drivers like he said BUT run driver cleaner pro after you do that to get rid of the leftover files. Then get older drivers like what was suggested earlier or the 94.20's seem to be real good for the 7 series.
 
vardan33 said:
wow bro im very exited. This sounds exactly like whats happening im gonna get on it asap. And the drivers are modified or something. My mobo is asrock dual vsta if you still wanna know.

Thank you very much even if doesnt work
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No go bro i uninstalled the drivers and the 7900gt in the device manager. THan booted in safe mode and installed the 91.31 driver. Than i rebooted went to welcome screen for a few minutes than slowly booted from there. Took like 15 minutes to load nod32 and then i just restored it to this working no hardware acceleration setting.I didnt do a driver cleaner nor reseat the card. If i do it like that would it work. Or i have to do something else
 
the 158.18 and 158.19 Do NOT support Below 8000 in XP XP XP XP XP this is what he was asking about .....So when you read the post and it says

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Originally Posted by vardan33
well i dont know if should reformat. Could i repair xp? And it shouldnt be damaged works in vista and was working a friday.


For XP its not supported thats why i typed it that way....I f i wanted to say it was NOT supported in Vista i woulda..But i gave the driver # and stated his card wasnt supported ...Pertaining to his preveous post!
 
well ok tommorow ill do it over with driver cleaner and reseat the card and whatever i didnt do. And what do you mean uninstall only the driver. THe one in control panel or the one in device manager or both?
 
I was not trying to start trouble ... this is confusing seeing he is using Dual Boot!....Some how his Pc is seeing two sets of drivers ..I would presume some how the drivers that are present for XP are being used in Vista and or the other way around and that Two Os's some how are conflicting...... you installed Vista First as Primary Os?
 
First of all plz stop arguing i didnt mean to start a flame war. And i had xp first than vista. Xp is still my primary os. And what do you have to say to the trouble i got when i installed the 91.31 driver. Said welcome for a dew minutes than took 15 minutes to load nod32.
 
Have a few questions... What os was installed first? Did the Problem Start after second Os was installed, or was the problem there before?
 
umm xp was installed then vista then got the 7900gt installed it on xp then vista.
PS: thank you for this help
 
From what ive read you have an Os that has Writen the Driver from Vista to XP so some how its using the same driver for both Oses thats not good...

the only way i know too fix that is to install Vista to the instructions for thier dual boot.....from my understanding vista will ovrwrite some XP drivers if Installed Last..You may have to Install Vista First and then XP which would really be a bummer ...Im looking up info now so give me five ok
 
!gOtVolTage! said:
I was not trying to start trouble ... this is confusing seeing he is using Dual Boot!....Some how his Pc is seeing two sets of drivers ..I would presume some how the drivers that are present for XP are being used in Vista and or the other way around and that Two Os's some how are conflicting...... you installed Vista First as Primary Os?
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Or is he dual booting on the same partition i read about someone doing that accidentaly? :confused:

It could also be a bios setting, the motherboard he is running is not your typical motherboard the dual 775 Vsta is a hybrid of sorts that has AGP/PCI-E as well as DDR/DDR2 support so it really could be alot of shit.
 
Ok Microsoft says ,the oldest Os gets installed first which you Did!...Xp then Vista was installed...Does both Oses start up or only 1? Do both Oses black screen or only 1? finnally If when you do Driver Cleaner thats dosnt work you most likely need to reinstall
Heres a link on Vista install Dual boot ......I kwow its for Problem s in dual boot ,just read it carefully you should find the info help full keep us posted :)

First one is vista help page

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/8572be9b-8580-49f7-9719-b3a4c42749fe1033.mspx

Second Microsoft help article

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919529
 
Hey i just realized You need to Unistall and use DriverCleaner under each Os dont you for it to properly work....Vista has different control panel than XP and both Use different driver ...So make shure under Each Os you try The uninstall/reinstall method Whith the new drivers...Vista driver for Vista ad Xp driver for XP....on dual boot if a driver is bad or installed to the wrong directory in Vista or Xp can cause it to be used by Both Oses.
 
Well i removed the vista drivers and disconnected my vista drive. And insalled 91.31 drivers with all your instructions. Booted at 800x600 resolution then took 15 minutes to load nod32 then just restarted, so i restored my pc to the current time. So now im gonna try the other driver.


EDIT: Can someone plz get me a bios for this xfx card PV-T71G-UDF7 plz.
 
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