It's my computer again..something is really wrong, and here are the symptoms :
Everything works well for two weeks. Then one morning when I start the computer, I get graphical glitches when I try to start icq. I think 'not agaiiiinnn' and try to start a game, not even a 3d game, but a 2d strategy game ; and as soon as the game starts I see severe graphical glitches, and then everything hangs, even the sound, and then the computer shuts down (as XP does when system failures occur). When I restart the computer it takes very little to get screen glitches and then a hang..starting IE is enough. But right at start i get the error message 'Windows detected a possible device failure' followed by 'the graphicsdriver was unable to complete a drawframe'. Always this error. 'Further info' reveals this :
szAppName : Drivers.Display szAppVer : 104A00100700101681
szModName : pmxdisp.dll szModVer : 6.13.10.6031 Offset : EB2E06EA
Always exactly the same. After installing other drivers (which doesn't help), removing the PCI soundcard (which doesn't help), and blowing as much dust as I can from the graphcard fan (which doesn't help) I downclock my processor(which doesn't help), hit my mobo lightly(which doesn't help) , remove the graphcard and try to plug it in harder(it is connected enough obviously since it works sometimes, but the chassi and mobo are a bit out of synch so no card can go the very last bit in - but, you guessed it: that didn't work either) . So I give up and go to sleep for the night. When I wake up again everything works again.
Another thing that might be of relevance or not is that sometimes when windows has just started, one hd (primary) works like a demon for 4 minutes or so before I can do anything. Sometimes when it does this the hd-led switches on and stays on while the whole computer hangs. The hanging and permanent hd-light don't happen often tho.
ANy ideas? ANY ideas?
Specs:
Abit BH6 rev1.02
SBLive!
Hercules Kyro2
256 mb SDRAM
P-3 800@896
Everything works well for two weeks. Then one morning when I start the computer, I get graphical glitches when I try to start icq. I think 'not agaiiiinnn' and try to start a game, not even a 3d game, but a 2d strategy game ; and as soon as the game starts I see severe graphical glitches, and then everything hangs, even the sound, and then the computer shuts down (as XP does when system failures occur). When I restart the computer it takes very little to get screen glitches and then a hang..starting IE is enough. But right at start i get the error message 'Windows detected a possible device failure' followed by 'the graphicsdriver was unable to complete a drawframe'. Always this error. 'Further info' reveals this :
szAppName : Drivers.Display szAppVer : 104A00100700101681
szModName : pmxdisp.dll szModVer : 6.13.10.6031 Offset : EB2E06EA
Always exactly the same. After installing other drivers (which doesn't help), removing the PCI soundcard (which doesn't help), and blowing as much dust as I can from the graphcard fan (which doesn't help) I downclock my processor(which doesn't help), hit my mobo lightly(which doesn't help) , remove the graphcard and try to plug it in harder(it is connected enough obviously since it works sometimes, but the chassi and mobo are a bit out of synch so no card can go the very last bit in - but, you guessed it: that didn't work either) . So I give up and go to sleep for the night. When I wake up again everything works again.
Another thing that might be of relevance or not is that sometimes when windows has just started, one hd (primary) works like a demon for 4 minutes or so before I can do anything. Sometimes when it does this the hd-led switches on and stays on while the whole computer hangs. The hanging and permanent hd-light don't happen often tho.
ANy ideas? ANY ideas?
Specs:
Abit BH6 rev1.02
SBLive!
Hercules Kyro2
256 mb SDRAM
P-3 800@896