- Jan 4, 2010
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Hello,
So I am pretty sure my video card is on it's way out, but I thought I would just double check with you good folks, proof read my work if you will =)
Last night I was in CS:GO, during a map change, just as I was loading in the server, the graphics on the screen went all red/green wonky and then the monitor blinked a couple of times tryin to recover, but no dice, the screen just stayed black.
I hit reset, boom BSOD with a Video TDR Error.
The offending drivers are:
nvlddmkm.sys
dxgkrnl.sys
dxgmms1.sys
I tried removing all the drivers cleanly with DDU (display driver uninstaller) multiple times, in fact a total of 8 times. Each time I tried different driver versions. I have backups going to 310.xx (nvidia).
Each time, I would reboot and just as windows was going to load up, boom blue screen.
The last time I tried a registry fix someone mentioned about increasing the timeout for TDR to 8seconds, but windows REALLY did not like that and I had to go into recover mode to fix that.
So, currently, I can boot into windows with no video card drivers other than stock windows. However on my desktop I can see green/red horizontal lines and I mouse over them, they vanish a little and then reappear.
As I said, I'm 99.9% sure my video card (which is a Zotac GTX 560ti) has finally come to the end of it's life cycle. Getting plenty long in the tooth I think we've had a good run.
I was thinking of going out and replacing it with one of the radeon 270x dual x OC versions. They are pretty cheap atm (199) and rival a gtx 760. I've had terrible TERRIBLE luck with nvidia drivers doing all kinds of bad stuff to the 500/600 series cards. Why I am thinkin of switching brands.
Anyways, what do you guys think?
So I am pretty sure my video card is on it's way out, but I thought I would just double check with you good folks, proof read my work if you will =)
Last night I was in CS:GO, during a map change, just as I was loading in the server, the graphics on the screen went all red/green wonky and then the monitor blinked a couple of times tryin to recover, but no dice, the screen just stayed black.
I hit reset, boom BSOD with a Video TDR Error.
The offending drivers are:
nvlddmkm.sys
dxgkrnl.sys
dxgmms1.sys
I tried removing all the drivers cleanly with DDU (display driver uninstaller) multiple times, in fact a total of 8 times. Each time I tried different driver versions. I have backups going to 310.xx (nvidia).
Each time, I would reboot and just as windows was going to load up, boom blue screen.
The last time I tried a registry fix someone mentioned about increasing the timeout for TDR to 8seconds, but windows REALLY did not like that and I had to go into recover mode to fix that.
So, currently, I can boot into windows with no video card drivers other than stock windows. However on my desktop I can see green/red horizontal lines and I mouse over them, they vanish a little and then reappear.
As I said, I'm 99.9% sure my video card (which is a Zotac GTX 560ti) has finally come to the end of it's life cycle. Getting plenty long in the tooth I think we've had a good run.
I was thinking of going out and replacing it with one of the radeon 270x dual x OC versions. They are pretty cheap atm (199) and rival a gtx 760. I've had terrible TERRIBLE luck with nvidia drivers doing all kinds of bad stuff to the 500/600 series cards. Why I am thinkin of switching brands.
Anyways, what do you guys think?
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