Upgraded video card: Now jumps all 3 minutes to the desktop!

[ndee]

I had a GF4 Ti4200 installed, uninstalled in the device manager -> shutdown -> replaced it with a GF 6600GT -> started the computer -> installed newest Nvidia driver from their page.

I was playing World of Warcraft and always, after about 3 minutes, the game loses focus and I get to see my desktop. Now, I was writing an email and the same thing happend, the windows just lost focus. Is that a known driver issue?

 

[jameswhite1979]

What windows are you running. Would be useful to check the event log and see what windows is reporting around the time of these events.

J

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: jameswhite1979
What windows are you running. Would be useful to check the event log and see what windows is reporting around the time of these events.

J

I'm running Windows XP SP2. Gonna check the Event Log.

 

[ndee]

nothing special in the Event Log.

 

[ndee]

UPDATE: It also happens when I'm using the computer normally, the window loses it's focus. Well, I might just re-install Windows next week on a Raptor 74GB harddisk

 

[ndee]

OK, installed Process Explorer and watched it a little bit and noticed that Internet Explorer gets started(I don't see it) for a couple seconds and then it terminates itself. I'm wondering why....

 

[dvsOasis]

are you supposed to uninstall it from device manager? I usually just go to control panel->add/remove programs, and then i remove "nvidia drivers". Then I run a nvidia driver cleaner.

Is there anything running in the background that might steal focus? Firewall, mail notifications, etc. Did you play with TweakUI to let your mouse change the focus window?

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: ndee
OK, installed Process Explorer and watched it a little bit and noticed that Internet Explorer gets started(I don't see it) for a couple seconds and then it terminates itself. I'm wondering why....

Heh, done a spyware scan recently?

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: ndee
OK, installed Process Explorer and watched it a little bit and noticed that Internet Explorer gets started(I don't see it) for a couple seconds and then it terminates itself. I'm wondering why....

Heh, done a spyware scan recently?

yep, SpyPot and Adaware didn't pick anything up.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Checked the card for overheating? If I overclock too far it will kick me out of games like that.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Checked the card for overheating? If I overclock too far it will kick me out of games like that.

How can I check the temp of it?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Checked the card for overheating? If I overclock too far it will kick me out of games like that.

How can I check the temp of it?

I think that depends on which manufacturer the card is by, I have read some don't offer temp monitoring. I can't say if there is a hack or 3rd party stuff that provides it though so someone else will have the info on that. With my XFX 6600GT it is available under the nV display properties under temperature settings.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Checked the card for overheating? If I overclock too far it will kick me out of games like that.

How can I check the temp of it?

I think that depends on which manufacturer the card is by, I have read some don't offer temp monitoring. I can't say if there is a hack or 3rd party stuff that provides it though so someone else will have the info on that. With my XFX 6600GT it is available under the nV display properties under temperature settings.

Do you have the standard Nvidia driver? Which version are you running?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I have the latest officials too.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
I have the latest officials too.

Weird. I have a software called V-tuner 2 from Gigabyte. I can only see the Clock and Core Speed. When I press on "Help", they show a screenshot with a LOT more information like Temperature, etc. Weird.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

By "loses focus" do you mean "becomes semi-transparent"? I ask because my display driver for my 6600GT has an option that, when enabled, makes a window become semi-transparent when it is selected (by clicking on the title bar to move it, for example).

My driver is version 71.80 that I got from guru3d.com. It works much better than the official nVidia driver that I got from nVidia's website.

 

[ndee]

nope, it just jumps back to the desktop. I gonna do some more tests tomorrow, could be temperature related. I'm really wondering thou on how I can check my temps.


It also happens while I'm in Windows so it is kinda weird.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: ndee
nope, it just jumps back to the desktop. I gonna do some more tests tomorrow, could be temperature related. I'm really wondering thou on how I can check my temps.


It also happens while I'm in Windows so it is kinda weird.

I think it would be very serious if you're having temp related problems in windows since the 6600GT only runs at a core speed of 300 mhz while in 2d mode. If it IS temperature related you could check you're heatsink and fan assembly to make sure they are making good contact with the GPU.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: ndee
I was playing World of Warcraft and always, after about 3 minutes, the game loses focus and I get to see my desktop. Now, I was writing an email and the same thing happend, the windows just lost focus. Is that a known driver issue?

Sure that's just not XP? Some apps can "steal focus" from the foreground app, especially if they are trying to signal an error, or play an error-alert sound, and your sound device is in use, or something like that. It may "steal focus", and flash/invert the program's icon in the taskbar to alert instead. There's some TweakUI for XP setting to disable the "steal focus" behavior, I think. (It's a real PITA, one more little "XP annoyance" that I wish that MS had never added.)

 

[ndee]

Thanks for the replies so far, here's a little update:

Downclocked the card to 300MHz in 3D applications, opened the case because I know my case can get occasionally to warm, it still happens. I know it's bad for the airflow but if you don't have much airflow at all in the case, that helps, tried it before.. I touched the heatsink of the video card and it is cold. So I don't think that's the problem.

VirtualLarry: I checked that with the PowerToys and I checked there that Applications may not steal focus.

 

[ndee]

haha, never checked for viruses. It was a virus, lets see if it still happens

it's fixed. No idea where that backdoor came from. Oh well