I received my new computer a few days ago from www.abs.com and I've been plagued with Blue Screen crashes during Quake 4, Battlefield 2142 and DVD movie playback (with WMP and WMC). The crashes come randomly. Sometimes it happens within minutes of loading up whichever application and sometimes i can play for hours without problems. The problem is irregular but, persistant. The Blue Screen says something like "a hardware error has occured.. dumping physical memory" then it restarts the system. When Vista boots back up I get a message saying an error occured and I'm reffered to this stop error.
My system configuration is:
Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz
eVga nForce 680i SLI mobo
2GB corsair RAM
nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit)
NOD32 AntiVirus (this was installed after the Blue Screens started showing up)
I installed the current drivers for the nForce 680i SLI mobo (15.00; no drivers were installed for it by default). I uninstalled and re-installed various display drivers for the 8800 GTX (101.41 beta, 100.65, 100.64, 100.59, 100.54). I set up Quake 4 and BF2142 to "Run As Administrator" and, under customization I tried to run both as "Windows XP (Server Pack 2) compatibility." I turned the graphics all the way up (which i should be able to handle for these games) and, I turned the graphics all the way down. None of this has worked! I've done a little research from people that have had somewhat similar problems and, sending in the video card for a replacement seems to be a waste of time. I believe it to be either a conflict with some program I have installed, an nVIDIA driver issue or some sortof setting in the nVIDIA Control Panel that I'm not familiar with (which is pretty much all of em). I realize that these games weren't designed for Vista but, I'm getting blue screens during DVD playback also. Steam games (Half Life 2, HL2: Death Match, Counter Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source) all work great! Any help or possible fixes for this issue would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
This issue seems very similar to mine other than the fact that it's in Windows XP not Vista but, I haven't been able to find anything to fix my problem in that thread (maybe because I'm not very good with this sorta thing I suppose). I was referred to this forum by a friend and, I'm under the impression that you guys are pretty smart 😉. If this is just a compatibility / driver issue with Vista and nVIDIA that I have to wait out then, fine. I just don't want to send my video card in if that's not the problem. I also submited a bug report to nVIDIA explaining this problem and, hopefully I'll hear back from them..
My system configuration is:
Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz
eVga nForce 680i SLI mobo
2GB corsair RAM
nVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Windows Vista Ultimate (32-bit)
NOD32 AntiVirus (this was installed after the Blue Screens started showing up)
I installed the current drivers for the nForce 680i SLI mobo (15.00; no drivers were installed for it by default). I uninstalled and re-installed various display drivers for the 8800 GTX (101.41 beta, 100.65, 100.64, 100.59, 100.54). I set up Quake 4 and BF2142 to "Run As Administrator" and, under customization I tried to run both as "Windows XP (Server Pack 2) compatibility." I turned the graphics all the way up (which i should be able to handle for these games) and, I turned the graphics all the way down. None of this has worked! I've done a little research from people that have had somewhat similar problems and, sending in the video card for a replacement seems to be a waste of time. I believe it to be either a conflict with some program I have installed, an nVIDIA driver issue or some sortof setting in the nVIDIA Control Panel that I'm not familiar with (which is pretty much all of em). I realize that these games weren't designed for Vista but, I'm getting blue screens during DVD playback also. Steam games (Half Life 2, HL2: Death Match, Counter Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source) all work great! Any help or possible fixes for this issue would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
This issue seems very similar to mine other than the fact that it's in Windows XP not Vista but, I haven't been able to find anything to fix my problem in that thread (maybe because I'm not very good with this sorta thing I suppose). I was referred to this forum by a friend and, I'm under the impression that you guys are pretty smart 😉. If this is just a compatibility / driver issue with Vista and nVIDIA that I have to wait out then, fine. I just don't want to send my video card in if that's not the problem. I also submited a bug report to nVIDIA explaining this problem and, hopefully I'll hear back from them..
