Random restarts 8800GT XFX

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Gawd
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Ok so I have had problems with BSODs for a while and I finally sent my vid card in to XFX and they sent me back my replacement and it has been working fine. I put the artic cooling cooler on it and it keeps it a LOT cooler. I also put on the ram cooler that my friend gave me (petrastechshop) and it keeps all the ram cool too.

Now my question is, is this the video card causing random reboots? I will be playing left for dead and it will just have a scratchy sound over the speakers and they it will reboot. It doesnt seem like a driver issue, but I have the beta driver they released for farcry 2. It happens after a while of playing (sometimes 30 minutes sometimes an hour).

The temps never seem to go up on anything either. I thought it could be ram but I didnt think ram would cause it to really just reboot like that but I guess it could be bad ram. I have ran a few passes of memtest on it and never saw an errors. Here are my specs:

E6550
Intel DG33BU motherboard
XFX 8800GT
Antec Earthwatts 500w (either that or 550w)

I am really tired of errors with games, seems like every time I build a computer some sort of component has some sort of intermittent problem. Guess its just the luck of the draw.
 
It's something else, not the video card. My favorite suspects for random rebooting are bad RAM, outdated motherboard BIOS or outdated chipset drivers. Run Memtest86+ 2.11 to test for bad RAM, and get the latest BIOS and chipset drivers from Intel's motherboard support web pages.
 
I had the same problem but with my 8800GTS , and it did turn out to be bad drivers that were included with the box. I have been downloading my drivers from manufacturer websites since then.
 
Try it with regular driver if it still gives you the same problem move on to power supply.
 
GJohn said:
I have the same problem, its your power supply.
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Agreed.. Power supply is the most common culprit for random restarts. I think most manuf's rec'd around 600W+ for the 8800's, but I did an overkill on mine and went 1000W.

I guess you could try other things first, just to confirm it.. Such as only using one RAM stick, Unplugging everything but what you need (no CDs, etc), updating all the drivers (if it will last that long before rebooting).

As for BIOS fixes. Most of the time, I stay away from that. Unless the BIOS upgrade is something that I have, or will affect me anyway. But since your machine is having issues, the "If it's not broke, don't fix it." doesn't apply here.

-Brett
 
I went out and bought 1000W PSU to replace my 750W PSU...and now i don't have problems with random restarts...
 
If you have the EarthWatts 500W (reviewed by JonnyGuru) or the TruePower Trio 550W (reviewed by SPCR) - then that's a pretty good PSU (Seasonic inside). An OC'ed 8800GT consumes about 83-85 W, only a high-end system (multi-GPU, OC'ed quad, etc.) consumes more than 300 W ;)
But if you have the TruePower2 550W or a SmartPower2 500W (like I do), then that's a problem because of the very unreliable Fuhjjyu capacitors :(
I'm searching for a new PSU right now... LOL
 
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