My 280 gtx keeps crashing from time to time..

[yusux]

I'm using 177.79 it crashes randomly in UT3 after some hours, my computer just goes into a coma, I hear this repeating sound and no signal on the monitor, I'm using Win XP SP3 in the 1st HD, on the 2nd HD I have Vista sp1 x64, it doesn't crash in Vista, but most game performs like sh1t in Vista

I tried updating to 180.70 it seems to crash quicker, any ideas?

 

[n7]

Is your OC stable...i'd recheck that.

Your card might be overheating too...what are temps?

Could just be another awesome driver issue...i had so many when UT3 first came out...took months & months for nVidia to finally figure out how to make functional drivers for UT3.

FWIW, i use 178.24 & they are fine for me in UT3, though i had some lovely pink textures in L4D for a while one night :frown:

I'm kinda scared to change them though, as god only knows what new issues will crop up...

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: n7
Is your OC stable...i'd recheck that.

Your card might be overheating too...what are temps?

Could just be another awesome driver issue...i had so many when UT3 first came out...took months & months for nVidia to finally figure out how to make functional drivers for UT3.

FWIW, i use 178.24 & they are fine for me in UT3, though i had some lovely pink textures in L4D for a while one night :frown:

I'm kinda scared to change them though, as god only knows what new issues will crop up...

I had pink textures in L4D before. I had a similar problem in Counter Strike Source. I don't think it is the nvidia drivers or overheating though. You should try the same test I did if you load a new game to many times in any source games for some reason the game starts to become more likely to develop texture issues. I have no idea why but it always happens to me if I change servers to much.

 

[dguy6789]

As suggested above, try running your card at completely stock clocks for a while and see if the problem still exists.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: yusux
I'm using 177.79 it crashes randomly in UT3 after some hours, my computer just goes into a coma, I hear this repeating sound and no signal on the monitor, I'm using Win XP SP3 in the 1st HD, on the 2nd HD I have Vista sp1 x64, it doesn't crash in Vista, but most game performs like sh1t in Vista

I tried updating to 180.70 it seems to crash quicker, any ideas?

That was true like a year ago...

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: yusux
I'm using 177.79 it crashes randomly in UT3 after some hours, my computer just goes into a coma, I hear this repeating sound and no signal on the monitor, I'm using Win XP SP3 in the 1st HD, on the 2nd HD I have Vista sp1 x64, it doesn't crash in Vista, but most game performs like sh1t in Vista

I tried updating to 180.70 it seems to crash quicker, any ideas?

That was true like a year ago...

Yep but not anymore. Just look at Far Cry 2 it runs actually a lot faster in Vista! To bad all games can not do that!

 

[yusux]

hmm I found out y it was crashing, I reversed the two 6pin PCI-e to 8pin, no more blackouts