I'm normally competent in these manners but this has really gotten me nervous. So. Heres whats been going on.
Just the other night I start getting weird video-related crashes, but only when playing Starcraft 2. (see my photo below) Complete hard crash with some awkward gfx. This initially happened randomly when playing, but now it happens right away on launch.
http://www.lib.hellblazer.cc/IMAG0012.jpg (that white block is the cursor, I can still move it around for a few seconds before it becomes completely unresponsive. Audio will sometimes still happen, but often times there is no audio)
So I figured its time for a reinstall because windows has been acting all strange recently too - takes 30+ seconds to open a damn right click menu. Last night I reinstall windows no problem, except for my backup drive completely dies after I boot up into my brand spanking new windows installation. I was able to freeze the drive and get the most important stuff back. I have a backup already, but its a few months old. So I install all my games again this morning and go to play some SC2 again. Same thing happens that happened before the install. Latest gfx drivers and everything. So I try to play it without steam to see if that was the issue and nope, same thing. Tried playing ME2, Crysis 2, same thing. The crash will ONLY happen when something "3d" came on the screen: in ME2 and SC2, theres a planet in the background of the main menus, so it crashed right away. But Crysis 2 has only 2d main menu, so it didn't crash until I loaded a game. HL2/TF2/Company of Heroes still worked though, no problem.
Put in my old 8800GTS (1st gen, bought it the day dx10 cards came out), haven't had a single issue yet.
So then I figured I'd live with it and RMA my graphics card, but its a BFG. And BFG went bankrupt last year and is defunct, so no support from them.
Essentially, do you guys think this is a power issue (gfx not getting enough power) or a graphics card issue (I need a new gfx card)? The only reason I'm thinking its a power issue is because my HDD decided to fail at the exact same time. I've also been hearing that this is a somewhat common issue with Vista/7 and something to do with sleep mode but I've never heard of it before.
Q6600 OC'ed to 3 GHz
6GB Mushkin DDR2-800
BFG Nvidia GTX260 OC
Gigabyte EP-45-UD3P
Crucial C300 256GB SSD
WD Black 640GB HDD (Failed, no longer in comp)
WD Green 1TB HDD
Corsair 520W Modular PSU
Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
Just the other night I start getting weird video-related crashes, but only when playing Starcraft 2. (see my photo below) Complete hard crash with some awkward gfx. This initially happened randomly when playing, but now it happens right away on launch.
http://www.lib.hellblazer.cc/IMAG0012.jpg (that white block is the cursor, I can still move it around for a few seconds before it becomes completely unresponsive. Audio will sometimes still happen, but often times there is no audio)
So I figured its time for a reinstall because windows has been acting all strange recently too - takes 30+ seconds to open a damn right click menu. Last night I reinstall windows no problem, except for my backup drive completely dies after I boot up into my brand spanking new windows installation. I was able to freeze the drive and get the most important stuff back. I have a backup already, but its a few months old. So I install all my games again this morning and go to play some SC2 again. Same thing happens that happened before the install. Latest gfx drivers and everything. So I try to play it without steam to see if that was the issue and nope, same thing. Tried playing ME2, Crysis 2, same thing. The crash will ONLY happen when something "3d" came on the screen: in ME2 and SC2, theres a planet in the background of the main menus, so it crashed right away. But Crysis 2 has only 2d main menu, so it didn't crash until I loaded a game. HL2/TF2/Company of Heroes still worked though, no problem.
Put in my old 8800GTS (1st gen, bought it the day dx10 cards came out), haven't had a single issue yet.
So then I figured I'd live with it and RMA my graphics card, but its a BFG. And BFG went bankrupt last year and is defunct, so no support from them.
Essentially, do you guys think this is a power issue (gfx not getting enough power) or a graphics card issue (I need a new gfx card)? The only reason I'm thinking its a power issue is because my HDD decided to fail at the exact same time. I've also been hearing that this is a somewhat common issue with Vista/7 and something to do with sleep mode but I've never heard of it before.
Q6600 OC'ed to 3 GHz
6GB Mushkin DDR2-800
BFG Nvidia GTX260 OC
Gigabyte EP-45-UD3P
Crucial C300 256GB SSD
WD Black 640GB HDD (Failed, no longer in comp)
WD Green 1TB HDD
Corsair 520W Modular PSU
Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
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