8800GTS 320mb BSOD

[edlemur]

i got at least 4 today nv4 bsod today. two days ago i had bumped up my clock to 880core and 900mem . my clocks before that bump were 875core and 888mem (which i had been running for over a month. and all along i idled at 56C and reached 70C on full load and no artifacting. i reverted back to the stock clocks and the issue still persists. could this slight bump actually cause something this grave?

recently, i had also updated to the 162 drivers but reverted back to 158 due to lack of shadows in GRAW2. i have tried driver cleaner and did a complete clean install of driver 158. this issue also coincided with the day i uninstalled the DiRT demo. could the removal of game files also be the culprit.

RMA is out of the question as well because of leadteks crappy support, i must RMA this to the netherlands (over $100 shipping). never buying leadtek again. and yes i contaceted leadtek and they said despite the overclock, its still considered reasnoalbe and i could rma it.

 

[Heinrich]

I don't believe that overclocking your video card should lead to BSOD. Normally, a slight overclock that is out of the card's range will produce some artifacting and texture corruption. I have not tried overclocking a video card on Vista though, that experience comes from XP.

Removal of a game demo really shouldn't cause this either. I suggest uninstalling your nvidia nforce drivers, running driver cleaner and then reinstalling. (Get fresh drivers from nvidia first because when you uninstall your network connection won't work. That may seem obvious but I have rushed and done this a few times to myself)

You don't mention vista, xp, 64..?

 

[MarcVenice]

the bsod is a common problem as far as I know. I've seen people posting about it before, google the bsods name and something should pop up. Where you from anyways that shipping would cost 100$ to ship it to Holland? Didn't really understand your last sentence btw, supponew? rt. ?

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: edlemur
i got at least 4 today nv4 bsod today. two days ago i had bumped up my clock to 880core and 900mem . my clocks before that bump were 875core and 888mem (which i had been running for over a month. and all along i idled at 56C and reached 70C on full load and no artifacting. i reverted back to the stock clocks and the issue still persists. could this slight bump actually cause something this grave?

recently, i had also updated to the 162 drivers but reverted back to 158 due to lack of shadows in GRAW2. i have tried driver cleaner and did a complete clean install of driver 158. this issue also coincided with the day i uninstalled the DiRT demo. could the removal of game files also be the culprit.

RMA is out of the question as well rt. to get a because of leadteks shit supponew card, first, i must RMA this to the netherlands (over $100 shipping). never buying leadtek again

You ran your card at 875 core and 888 memory and now you're complaining about BSOD and that you're having trouble RMA'ing it when you shouldn't be RMA'ing in the first place. You ran that card WAY out of spec. You could have damaged it with clocks so high.

Go buy another card and treat it better.

 

[WelshBloke]

:shocked: 880 core :shocked:

Are you sure you don't mean 580 core, although 880 would explain your problems!

 

[edlemur]

yes sorry, i meant 580core and 900mem. i did a system restore today and it seems a bit more stable, ill see how it goes on throughtout my day