Blue screen of death, was the GPU culprit?

arajigar

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Hi. This last days I have start seeing little white flickers on screen while playing (Wolfenstein 2009), in an hour or two of playing maybe I saw this a dozen of times, but I thought it was a problem with the game itself. Today I was goofing with the noclip command and Quake 1 when I have received a blue screen saying this:

*** Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor for support
NMI: Parity Check/Memory Parity Error
*** The system has halted ***

The graphic card is an Nvidia GT220 1Gb. I have cleaned it before installing it, and temps are not higher than 39 degrees celsius while playing. Of course drivers are updated. The only problem I saw is that its heatsink's fan is less of an inch closer to the soundcard.

What's happening?, will it be a GPU total failure?.

Thanks in anticipation!
 
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generally a NMI error (non maskable interrupt) is going to be coming directly from a signal from a hardware component or chipset or hardware board.
It would mean a failure of the hardware.

so the first question is what is the make and model of the machine. (how old is it)

-the error does not have to come from RAM.
best guess is a hardware failure in the GPU.

arajigar

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Tried!, but what I have obtained from the site is an exe to make bootable USB, with no iso included in the zip. Hardware monitor shows no problems, but I still have white flickers, fortunately no more blu screens by now.

Edit: I have finally manage to make the bootable Memtest86 USB, and I'll perform the tests asap.
Another thing I've found and with which I'll perform further test.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

Also I'll try to enable VSYNC in the game's options and fix the refresh rate of the monitor (Phillips 170s) to a higher value (75 hz will be right?).

On BIOS advanced options, I've read that you must disable:
PCI SERR#
and...
S5 WAKE on LAN

If someone see somethig more I can do, just tell me, please.

Edit: memtest shows nothing, blue screen viewer cannot find dump files because my pc cannot make them even if it's set up to do so... Last session was normal. I will post mord info as I find more BSODs on my system...
 
generally a NMI error (non maskable interrupt) is going to be coming directly from a signal from a hardware component or chipset or hardware board.
It would mean a failure of the hardware.

so the first question is what is the make and model of the machine. (how old is it)

-the error does not have to come from RAM.
best guess is a hardware failure in the GPU.
 
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