Full PC lockup.

[Atty]

Yesterday I installed my 8800GTS 320MB (eVGA) and everything was perfect. I played a few hours of CS:S and every was still fine, it wasn't until later that night I got a weird error. I was looking at the nTune settings for my GPU, didn't change anything, and suddenly my screen went white. Pure white, nothing resonded. So I restarted, and then left it off for the night, came back to it this morning and it was fine, stayed on for about an hour then locked up, white screen again. Now, after leaving it be for about 10 hours, my system locks up ever 10 minutes and I need to forceably restart it.

I'm pretty sure it's related to my 8800GTS, because before I installed it (with my x1900GT) I didn't ever get this issue. I've removed my drivers, used drive cleaner, and re-installed the newest ones with no luck. Still, every 10 or so minutes my PC locks up. I tried running nVidia's system stablilty app, but that doesn't work since the PC locks up 1/4 the way through it.

Anyone have any idea how to fix this? Do you think it's related to the 8800? My card temp is 58c when it locks up. Any help?


Thanks.

 

[Alopez777]

iAtticus,

Remove the 8800 along with Nvidia driver.

Reinstall ATI card along with driver.

Run a test by playing a game... see how long ur system stays UP.

U should check the CASE temp.

How old is your OCZ PSU?

al

 

[Atty]

The reason for replacing the x1900 wth the 8800 is because the 1900 died. I don't have it anymore.

My case temp is 38c (or was) when I last expierenced the problem, and my PSU is a GameXStream 600w purchased last september with my entire set up except for the 8800.

I'm going to try swapping PCI-E slots, see if it makes a difference.

It just happended again, Temps were: 40c System, 28c CPU, and 64c GPU.

 

[Alopez777]

iAtticus,

I suspect the PSU. Go to Fry's or Best Buy and purchase a higher voltage (ie. 12V rail) voltage... and swap it... if it doesn't work, return the PSU.

 

[Atty]

Ok I tried it in the second PCI-E slot, and it worked fine in 2D And 3d mode (In Halo PC) for about 30 minutes, then froze up. :'(

And PSU? I doubt it's the PSU. :


I'm switching out ram now. :

 

[btcomm1]

Could be ram, but I'm thinking it's your vid card. I think you should get a replacement one.

 

[Atty]

Ok so now the problem only happens in 3D mode, not in 2D. It used to lockup anywhere any time, now it's gone two hours on without any lockups. As soon as I play any game though it locks up, so I guess it is Video card related. eVGA should have a replacement card out to me in no time.