- Dec 2, 2004
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Alright Ladies and Gentlemen, I have been around for a year or two and have put my 2 cents into several topics, but now I must call on yalls objective opinion
First things is first, specs are in my sig.
Now to my problem. I was playing Lineage 2 (MMORPG) for a few hours today and it locked up, Np. Its a horribly programmed game and its the only game unstable on my system, which I am ok with since it only crashes once ever 4 hours of continous play. Then i boot back up and start playing some more... an hour goes by, 2... then out of the blue I start getting artifacts.
Not your everyday normal distortions ( i know those fairly well lol). I am getting some sort of partial and intermitent horizontal banding. So I ignore them, figuring its a driver malfunction and continue to play, and the banding continues for 15 min or so. By this time im becoming concerned and then all of a sudden normal artifacts flare up and the game goes haywire and locks the computer.
Most unfortunate. So i hit the ever faithful kill switch on the back of the PSU and let it sit for 2-3 min and reboot. However this time something is diffrent... I am getting the exact same artifacts in the BIOS Screen!!!!
Please Advise.
In my experiance the only time I have ever come across this was when I blew a resistor on a 9800 Pro bc i had it oc'd too far.
I have modded the 7800 GTX bios to maintain a constant 1.4v in 2D and 3D mode and set the default speed to 520Mhz. Each card is water cooled so heat is not the issue. There was a fan blowing across the voltage regulators of both cards so I dont see how that could be the problem.
I have now disconnected the copmuter from the power cord and left it sitting there as I wait for yalls insight.
On a side note: I have officially declared my PC3-720 Water cooling setup a casualty loss today. Most unfortunate. I'm looking to build a swifttech mased dual independent loop system with seperate loops for my CPU/Chipset and GPU but thats for another thread.
First things is first, specs are in my sig.
Now to my problem. I was playing Lineage 2 (MMORPG) for a few hours today and it locked up, Np. Its a horribly programmed game and its the only game unstable on my system, which I am ok with since it only crashes once ever 4 hours of continous play. Then i boot back up and start playing some more... an hour goes by, 2... then out of the blue I start getting artifacts.
Not your everyday normal distortions ( i know those fairly well lol). I am getting some sort of partial and intermitent horizontal banding. So I ignore them, figuring its a driver malfunction and continue to play, and the banding continues for 15 min or so. By this time im becoming concerned and then all of a sudden normal artifacts flare up and the game goes haywire and locks the computer.
Most unfortunate. So i hit the ever faithful kill switch on the back of the PSU and let it sit for 2-3 min and reboot. However this time something is diffrent... I am getting the exact same artifacts in the BIOS Screen!!!!
Please Advise.
In my experiance the only time I have ever come across this was when I blew a resistor on a 9800 Pro bc i had it oc'd too far.
I have modded the 7800 GTX bios to maintain a constant 1.4v in 2D and 3D mode and set the default speed to 520Mhz. Each card is water cooled so heat is not the issue. There was a fan blowing across the voltage regulators of both cards so I dont see how that could be the problem.
I have now disconnected the copmuter from the power cord and left it sitting there as I wait for yalls insight.
On a side note: I have officially declared my PC3-720 Water cooling setup a casualty loss today. Most unfortunate. I'm looking to build a swifttech mased dual independent loop system with seperate loops for my CPU/Chipset and GPU but thats for another thread.
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