video card dying?

[vic5014]

What are the warning signs your video card is about to kick the bucket? I'm wondering because I keep getting BSODs after playing games for a couple hours. The error messages seem to indicate a driver problem, but I'm using the latest 8-12 drivers (I have a 9600xt; no laughing, please.) Could this be an overheating issue or do I need to plan for the imminent death of my graphics card?

 

[OCGuy]

Use older drivers that worked in the past?

 

[vic5014]

I installed the latest drivers because the windows error reporting thing said it was a driver issue. That didn't solve the problem so now I'm wondering what my next step should be.

 

[ender11122]

If you have an nvidia card and vista 64 like me it might be the new drivers. I have had repeated problems with them to the point where I have reformatted 2 different computers and gone back to pre-physx drivers

 

[Painman]

Inspect the fan/heatsink... make sure it's not clogged with dust, and that the fan is spinning properly. If the GPU malfunctions due to overheat it could produce a BSOD the way you described.