Graphics card crashing my PC?

[trigun500]

When I booted my PC up this morning I got the blue screen saying that "windows shut down to avoid damage to hardware." and it was dumping physical memory. Once it booted everything seems normal; Vista said that it was my graphics card that caused the failure and suggested that I get different drivers. I have an 8800GT and I have the nVidia driver in so I 'm not sure what to do. This system is not even a month old (see sig) so I'm not sure what could be going wrong. Any help would be great.

Is there a tool I can use to check my graphics card is ok?

 

[Roguestar]

Google for nTune. It's a utility from nVidia that'll let you check your graphic card temps and stuff. Make sure it's not overheating.

 

[Slugbait]

I doubt it's heat. When the newer cards come out, and physical memory dumps, a newer mobo BIOS usually does the trick.

However, you have a 650. History would suggest the 680 would get a newer BIOS first, so there may not yet be one available for your machine.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: trigun500
When I booted my PC up this morning I got the blue screen saying that "windows shut down to avoid damage to hardware." and it was dumping physical memory. Once it booted everything seems normal; Vista said that it was my graphics card that caused the failure and suggested that I get different drivers. I have an 8800GT and I have the nVidia driver in so I 'm not sure what to do. This system is not even a month old (see sig) so I'm not sure what could be going wrong. Any help would be great.

Is there a tool I can use to check my graphics card is ok?

See my .sig, read the BSOD section, and debug your dump. Post the output from '!analyze -v'. It's likely that has already been done and MS is telling you you have a bad nVidia driver.

How old is your current nVidia driver? If it's been over a week or two since you've put the driver on, head over to www.nvidia.com and get the latest and install it, and that may fix you up.

But if you debug the dumpfile, you'll know for sure...