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I've been troubleshooting an intermittent problem on my main, flagship system -- summarized in my sig.
I leave the system on 24/7. Every several days, I'd have a "kernel power event-id 41" event with an unannounced reset (most of the time) or a BSOD (very seldom).
Yes, the system has been overclocked, but that's not the cause of the problem. I thought it was RAM, bought some new sticks that marginally reduce power consumption. No cigar. It happened again.
I am now suspecting the eVGA GTX 570 graphics card.
I could post this in "Home Theater," but chose this forum for now.
Through two systems -- this Sandy Bridge machine and the Q6600 system before it, I'd set up Media Center to run my AV Receiver and HDTV. The AV Receiver is a two-year-old improvement; I'd been getting MC through a 1080p monitor and the analog 5.1 speakers hooked up to onboard audio before adding the AVR into the mix. I disabled the onboard audio and Logitech speakers, so the AVR system provides all media sound and system sound.
But for the event-ID-41 problem, all of this has worked marvelously well -- for both systems over almost six years. I have a cable-card setup with an HDHomeRun Prime for TV input. Never any problem with that. But I have to note that the Q6600 system also showed similar symptoms with the two-monitor setup for its GTX 8800 graphics.
The onboard Intel 3000 graphics isn't currently used for anything. The SB system currently boots using the GTX 570 as primary in BIOS. I have a double-monitor setup: one for the HDTV (not the primary) at HD resolution; another is an older VGA LCD monitor. Both of these are connected to (a) the HDMI port on the GTX 570 with 25' quality HDMI cable (runs to AVR->HDTV), and (b) another DVI port on the dGPU with a standard 15-pin VGA converter to the LCD monitor.
The dGPU (GTX 570) has 1,284 MB of VRAM, is PCI-E 2.0 compliant, and socketed in the usual choice for such a card on the ASUS P8Z68-V-Pro motherboard.
To troubleshoot the problem -- people all over the web are reporting these event-ID-41 difficulties in Windows 7 -- I'm following one avenue of prevailing advice and upgrading the dGPU driver and software.
Every time I do this, I have problems reconfiguring Media Center to accept the 5.1 input after configuring the sound designated by my ONKYO receiver in Control Panel.
Right now, after a lot of trouble, I have it working -- but Media Center plays at full volume and I cannot adjust the volume as before. With this, the only way to control the volume is with the ONKYO remote control.
I also hear a lot of grumbling in my web-searches about the nVidia HD Audio and drivers.
Any suggestions? Does the graphics card have enough power to handle two monitors in different resolutions, plus "surround sound?" I've fiddled with "nVidia INspector" to provide "multi-monitor power saving" and put the dGPU in a P12 state, but the quality of the video is affected on the HDTV -- despite a reduction of dGPU temperatures by some 10C+ degrees.
I am thinking about running the AVR/HDTV off the onboard Intel 3000 graphics, while continuing to use the dGPU with the LCD monitor for games and mainstream apps. I am guessing this will foul up my HDCP configuration in Media Center -- possibly making it difficult or impossible to play back recorded TV made under the previous configuration.
Any thoughts about this will be profoundly appreciated.
I wish it could be shorter, and I wish it were simpler.
I leave the system on 24/7. Every several days, I'd have a "kernel power event-id 41" event with an unannounced reset (most of the time) or a BSOD (very seldom).
Yes, the system has been overclocked, but that's not the cause of the problem. I thought it was RAM, bought some new sticks that marginally reduce power consumption. No cigar. It happened again.
I am now suspecting the eVGA GTX 570 graphics card.
I could post this in "Home Theater," but chose this forum for now.
Through two systems -- this Sandy Bridge machine and the Q6600 system before it, I'd set up Media Center to run my AV Receiver and HDTV. The AV Receiver is a two-year-old improvement; I'd been getting MC through a 1080p monitor and the analog 5.1 speakers hooked up to onboard audio before adding the AVR into the mix. I disabled the onboard audio and Logitech speakers, so the AVR system provides all media sound and system sound.
But for the event-ID-41 problem, all of this has worked marvelously well -- for both systems over almost six years. I have a cable-card setup with an HDHomeRun Prime for TV input. Never any problem with that. But I have to note that the Q6600 system also showed similar symptoms with the two-monitor setup for its GTX 8800 graphics.
The onboard Intel 3000 graphics isn't currently used for anything. The SB system currently boots using the GTX 570 as primary in BIOS. I have a double-monitor setup: one for the HDTV (not the primary) at HD resolution; another is an older VGA LCD monitor. Both of these are connected to (a) the HDMI port on the GTX 570 with 25' quality HDMI cable (runs to AVR->HDTV), and (b) another DVI port on the dGPU with a standard 15-pin VGA converter to the LCD monitor.
The dGPU (GTX 570) has 1,284 MB of VRAM, is PCI-E 2.0 compliant, and socketed in the usual choice for such a card on the ASUS P8Z68-V-Pro motherboard.
To troubleshoot the problem -- people all over the web are reporting these event-ID-41 difficulties in Windows 7 -- I'm following one avenue of prevailing advice and upgrading the dGPU driver and software.
Every time I do this, I have problems reconfiguring Media Center to accept the 5.1 input after configuring the sound designated by my ONKYO receiver in Control Panel.
Right now, after a lot of trouble, I have it working -- but Media Center plays at full volume and I cannot adjust the volume as before. With this, the only way to control the volume is with the ONKYO remote control.
I also hear a lot of grumbling in my web-searches about the nVidia HD Audio and drivers.
Any suggestions? Does the graphics card have enough power to handle two monitors in different resolutions, plus "surround sound?" I've fiddled with "nVidia INspector" to provide "multi-monitor power saving" and put the dGPU in a P12 state, but the quality of the video is affected on the HDTV -- despite a reduction of dGPU temperatures by some 10C+ degrees.
I am thinking about running the AVR/HDTV off the onboard Intel 3000 graphics, while continuing to use the dGPU with the LCD monitor for games and mainstream apps. I am guessing this will foul up my HDCP configuration in Media Center -- possibly making it difficult or impossible to play back recorded TV made under the previous configuration.
Any thoughts about this will be profoundly appreciated.
I wish it could be shorter, and I wish it were simpler.
