ATTN: ATi card users

[Indus]

Does your video card have its drivers crash and recover in Windows Vista and 7 too or its strictly an nvidia problem?

Namely this happens in both vista and win 7 rigs from time to time:

https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/attachment/16661/Graphics+Driver+Crash.jpg

 

[thilanliyan]

That can happen for a whole host of reasons...OCing/defective card/etc. If you're asking in general then no in my case I don't get those crashes UNLESS I overclock too far.

If you were not getting those before and are now without changing anything then something might be going wrong with the card. Try underclocking it and see if you get the same problems.

 

[Indus]

That can happen for a whole host of reasons...OCing/defective card/etc. If you're asking in general then no in my case I don't get those crashes UNLESS I overclock too far.

If you were not getting those before and are now without changing anything then something might be going wrong with the card. Try underclocking it and see if you get the same problems.

I don't get it, because it happens in 2 rigs that're non related and 1 isn't overclocked at all and the other is super overclocked and never crashes at its peak but when I leave it on overnight or something it'll do that.

 

[Drakcol]

I used to have this happen all the time when I was running an Nvidia 9800gtx+ but ever since I've upgraded to an ATI 5850 I haven't had my drivers crash once and I'm running the latest beta drivers with an overclocked card. But as the previous two posters have mentioned it could be any number of things causing these problems.

 

[akugami]

HP computer with a Radeon 2400 with Win7, no crashes. Web browsing system, not sure of exact video card, too lazy to check.

Main rig with a 4870 and Win7, no crashes.

Neither system with overclocked GPU. Main rig has overclocked CPU.

 

[Painman]

Unstable GPU OC is the only thing that's ever caused a driver crash for me on Vista.

 

[Indus]

bad power supply could cause it too? Say the overclock is stable but sometimes power fluctuates and causes it?

 

[Drakcol]

A bad PSU could absolutely cause havoc. If the video card isn't getting the power it needs then it starts spitting out gibberish resulting in driver failure. Well that's my thinking of it anyway then again it's 2am here so my thinking may not be all that clear..

 

[Spike]

I had a bunch of crashes early on with an nVidia card and Vista but after the drivers where fixed I never had a driver crash again. I switched to an 4870 and still have no crashes.

 

[nemesismk2]

My Windows 7 computer with amd cpu and ati video card has never crashed so far (1 month old) touch wood

 

[dguy6789]

I've never had a single ATI driver related crash with Vista or 7.

 

[lopri]

ForceWare 190/191? Try downgrading to 185/186.

 

[evolucion8]

I only had one in Windows 7 but not sure why, not even an error appeared on screen or logged in the event viewer. But probably it was because I was playing Batman AA using the Change Device/Vendor ID with the ATi Tray to change it as a GTX card and it may triggered something.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

9800gt no crashes.

 

[Genx87]

Does your video card have its drivers crash and recover in Windows Vista and 7 too or its strictly an nvidia proble?

Namely this happens in both vista and win 7 rigs from time to time:

https://jira.secondlife.com/secure/attachment/16661/Graphics+Driver+Crash.jpg

Yes and it annoyed the shit out of me with my 4850. My solution is to not install the control center software.

 

[Indus]

ForceWare 190/191? Try downgrading to 185/186.

Yes. Hmm there's a thought but I think the rig drivers crash with 185's too. Its the 181's that's stable.

But I have to ask you this.. I'm using an Enermax Noisetaker II to power my rig:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817194009

The power distribution is here: Output +3.3@32A,+5V@32A,+12V1@22A,+12V2@22A,-12V@0.6A,+ 5VSB@3.0A ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/ImageG...Power%20Supply )

Any chance that could be the problem?

Running an E6550 @ 2.93ghz
Gigabyte P-35DS3L
Gskill 4 x 1gb PC6400 DDR2 SDRAM (5-5-5-15)
BFG GTX 260 SC @ 675/2304

 

[T2k]

No problem here in either of my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machines (4850 X2 2GB and 4850 512MB).

 

[Jesusthewererabbit]

I had a few problems with Vista and my 3850, but that was in 2007. Didn't have a problem after the service pack, and haven't had any problems at all in 7.

 

[zmatt]

Running Crossfire 4850s in Server 08 and they are OC'ed. No probs.

 

[cusideabelincoln]

It only crashes when a particular game doesn't like a particular overclock I'm using. TF2 used to crash somewhat often, but then I backed down the overclock a bit and the problem was solved.

 

[happy medium]

ForceWare 190/191? Try downgrading to 185/186.

This was my problem with xp and windows 7. I downgraded and I'm fine now I think.

 

[yh125d]

I've used both NV and ATI in vista for 1.5 years, and both in win7 for a few months and haven't had any crashes attributable to buggy drivers

 

[Occ]

Zero driver problems with my x1800xt in Win7 x64.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

I'll get a teetering sluggish feeling and then the drivers will recover: but that was with the on-disc shipping version win7 ati card drivers. no problems since updating.

do you have any c++ redistribute packs installed by any chance?

supposedly, as of 3 weeks ago at least, using driversweep and similar programs is not advised- at least on the ati side of things. Doesn't play nice with win7.

only buggy f@h problems make my drivers reset as of late. Do you have nvidia-based motherboards? I do, but stayed the hell away from those nforce drivers. only thing missing is an 'away mode' device driver- my computer was never able to enter proper away mode on vista anyhow- nothing missed there.

 

[VashHT]

I'm using a 5870 and the 9.10 drivers and I get a driver crash sometimes when I watch hulu. Other than that, I have not seen any. Using win7 x64 Ultimate btw.