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Blue Screens won't go away (Vista, 7900 GS)

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milkmanjb   03-15-2007 at 06:22:02 PM

When it's not one problem with me, it's another. I just fixed my computer from not being able to boot, and now it gives me blue screens constantly. I've gotten it from being a huge expensive paperweight to being a huge expensive piece of crap. :) Half the time it locks up on the vista startup screen. The other half of the time it will work fine for up to an hour and then spaz out on me. I get a blue screen with this error message.

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This issue might occur if the display driver is caught in an infinite loop while it waits for the video hardware to become idle. This issue typically indicates a problem with the video hardware or that the display driver cannot program the hardware correctly.



This is very annoying because everything in my system is brand new, and I took great pains to ensure that everything would work together correctly.

I have a XFX GeForce 7900 GS. I have gotten the most recent and correct drivers and tried several different ones. I have a 500W PSU with a total of 29A on the +12V rails. The system worked for about 10 hours yesterday before the blue screens started. I thought it might have been an issue with my TV Tuner (Hauppauge WinTV PVR-500), but I disabled it to check and I still got the same blue screen.

Help! :cry: I posted this in the TV/Video Card section, but now I know it should go here. I was just starting to have fun with Vista, and now all I can get is crappy Safe Mode.

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inefX   03-16-2007 at 03:11:16 PM
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Here are my suggestions:

I think either that Vista's display driver isn't playing well with your 7900 or your video card's drivers are giving some troubles. If i were you, i would install windows XP and do a careful comparison between the two OS. Be sure you have the recent drivers from nVidia that is exclusively for Windows Vista.

Windows Vista, personally, isn't an upgrade choice at this point in time. And it sucks alot from your memory and doesn't have alot of support in the software environment as yet. XP is still on, and games nowadays still support the OS.

Another tip, if you have another PCI-e slot, try placing it there (but uninstall the drivers in safe mode before doing so) and then boot and see what happens. If all goes well, re-install the Vista drivers from nVidia (recent for 32 bit is 100.65, 64 bit is 100.65, except that this file comes with more) in normal mode (safe mode too would be granted). Be sure you know if you're running either 32bit or 64bit OS before choosing the right one. A way to know in Vista is by right click Computer> goto properties and you should see what version of the OS you're running.

Hope this helps! :)

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red_devil   03-20-2007 at 10:05:09 AM
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You have an incredibly big problem that bloats your system it's a five letter word and it starts with "V", No, you idiot it's not virus it's vista. :)

Sorry, had to make that joke. anyway, did u try the beta drivers from nvidia as a last resort? most of the times they are better than the current drivers.

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milkmanjb   03-21-2007 at 06:41:56 PM
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You have an incredibly big problem that bloats your system it's a five letter word and it starts with "V", No, you idiot it's not virus it's vista. :)

Sorry, had to make that joke. anyway, did u try the beta drivers from nvidia as a last resort? most of the times they are better than the current drivers.



I'm starting to think the same thing. I'm going to see if I can get a free downgrade to Windows XP because Vista is so lame. I have done everything I can think of and the problem won't go away. It's not me, it's just that Vista is broken.

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firemist   03-21-2007 at 07:34:15 PM
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I went and looked at your previous thread and your setup is similiar to mine. I have a Gigabyte DS3, 7900 GS, 2 x 500 GB drives, Netgear wireless G, Vista32 and XP Pro dual boot system. After I got the latest chipset drivers and MB drivers from Gigabyte and the beta drivers from nVidia I have seen no system instability.
Have you installed the Vista MB and Chipset drivers?
Have you tried uninstalling the tuner card (not just disabled it)?
What other devices are on the system?
It sounds like a driver issue and removing/uninstalling any devices that are not needed and checking the drivers on what is left is my best guess as to where to start.
I started with Vista64 and gave up because of the squirrely drivers available.

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milkmanjb   03-21-2007 at 10:37:43 PM
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Yes, I updated the chipset driver, flashed the BIOS to F10, and the latest beta drivers from nVidia (although it appears not to do anything because it still does the little things it says it fixed, like screen blinking when UAC is needed). Did you have the problem in both Vista and XP? I doubt it's something with the Tuner because I had this problem before I installed that.

I'm not sure I want to try to keep checking drivers because this is just one reason I don't like Vista. If I can switch to XP instead for free, I'm all over it.

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firemist   03-21-2007 at 10:45:57 PM
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XP was painless. Built system, loaded drivers and installed video and was playing Oblivion in a matter of minutes.

Vista install went fine the second time (tried the x64 flavor first) and updated drivers. Had a real difficult time getting wireless support drivers and loaded newer drivers from vendor sites and everything is fine now. Still looking for tuner card support for Vista which is why I picked on that.

Good luck

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