Sporadic Video Card Issue...

[uraloony]

I just built a new rig about 3 weeks ago - see my sig for specs. I am getting some random errors. Upon exiting some games, I will get a blue screen that pops up so quickly I can't read more than the first few words. One time it had Halt in it, and another time I want to say IRQ Stop or something along those lines.

It seems to be happening when the video card is changing back to the desktop resoluton after being in gaming resolution while playing. I play Natural Selection through Steam, but I have experienced it in another game as well (thats not in Steam), so I doubt its the game or Steam. I have the latest set of video card drivers as well as motherboard drivers from the nVidia website. Running XP Pro w/ SP2. I checked the motherboard rails, everything looks reasonable there.

The video card is the eVGA 6600GT Pci Express x16 card. Has anyone else with this video
card experienced these problems? They only happen maybe once every 10-15 times I exit the game. The rest of the time everything is perfect.

Thanks in advance guys.

 

[KGB]

Loon,

What gets logged in Event Viewer?

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Sounds like a bad card, or the card is overheating, or the aux power is not plugged into the card.

Try using 66.xx drivers. They're probably the most stable for 6600GT's. I have an AGP 6600GT, and I hate the 7x.xx drivers. I gain nothing, and they're not that reliable.

 

[uraloony]

There is no aux power plug on the video card. I checked the event viewer, it had logged nothing. Idk whats up with that. On a side note, I upgraded to the latest Forceware drivers, and I haven't had it lock up yet, but I haven't had a lot of time to use the computer recently.

 

[Bassyhead]

You probably can't read what the blue screen says because the system may be automatically restarting. To disable this, go into System Properties, click the Advanced tab and click the Settings button for Startup and Recovery. Uncheck "Automatically Restart" if it's checked.