Hi all,
I recently purchased an ASUS GeForce 6800 (NU). At present I am running the ASUS graphics driver version 62.11, and ASUS SmartDoctor version 4.54. I have been experiencing the following problems:
1. Rebooting on startup in Windows XP Service Pack 2.
This happens when SmartDoctor and the ASUS graphics driver are both installed. It did not happen when I was using the NVidia driver with SmartDoctor (go figure), or when I uninstalled SmartDoctor. When I disabled automatic rebooting I get a BSOD (can't remember the error code, but I can look it up if anyone cares). If I boot Windows and leave it sitting at the login screen for a minute or so, the problem does not occur.
2. Random vertical stretching of the screen.
This happens at unpredictable times. The best way to describe it is that the screen is normal horizontally, but the image is stretched 20 to 30 times its height vertically (so that I only see a small portion of the top part of the screen, but it is stretched). When it happens it resolves when resolution switching (for example, if it happens within a game that is running at a different resolution/refresh rate to Windows and I alt-tab and back again then all appears as normal). There is sometimes also a thin black band across the middle of the screen.
ASUS firstly recommended that I install their graphics driver (which I did), and then recommended that I uninstall SmartDoctor. Unfortunately the fan is quite noisy when not being temperature-controlled, so I put it back on and I am getting the symptoms again.
I'm sure that problem 1 is caused by SmartDoctor (not sure if it is XP / SP2 specific). I am not sure about problem 2 yet (I will remove SmartDoctor again and see what happens over the next week).
Perhaps an older version of SmartDoctor will work better? (I want to control my fan speed, not dynamically overclock).
Has anyone else who has been running SmartDoctor experienced similar issues?
I recently purchased an ASUS GeForce 6800 (NU). At present I am running the ASUS graphics driver version 62.11, and ASUS SmartDoctor version 4.54. I have been experiencing the following problems:
1. Rebooting on startup in Windows XP Service Pack 2.
This happens when SmartDoctor and the ASUS graphics driver are both installed. It did not happen when I was using the NVidia driver with SmartDoctor (go figure), or when I uninstalled SmartDoctor. When I disabled automatic rebooting I get a BSOD (can't remember the error code, but I can look it up if anyone cares). If I boot Windows and leave it sitting at the login screen for a minute or so, the problem does not occur.
2. Random vertical stretching of the screen.
This happens at unpredictable times. The best way to describe it is that the screen is normal horizontally, but the image is stretched 20 to 30 times its height vertically (so that I only see a small portion of the top part of the screen, but it is stretched). When it happens it resolves when resolution switching (for example, if it happens within a game that is running at a different resolution/refresh rate to Windows and I alt-tab and back again then all appears as normal). There is sometimes also a thin black band across the middle of the screen.
ASUS firstly recommended that I install their graphics driver (which I did), and then recommended that I uninstall SmartDoctor. Unfortunately the fan is quite noisy when not being temperature-controlled, so I put it back on and I am getting the symptoms again.
I'm sure that problem 1 is caused by SmartDoctor (not sure if it is XP / SP2 specific). I am not sure about problem 2 yet (I will remove SmartDoctor again and see what happens over the next week).
Perhaps an older version of SmartDoctor will work better? (I want to control my fan speed, not dynamically overclock).
Has anyone else who has been running SmartDoctor experienced similar issues?
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