OK, so I installed Oblivion last night and half way thru character creation, my machine blue screens, error 10000050. I know this is a general error, but the event IDs and error types point to hardware failure or device driver conflict.
I have the GeCube x1950xt. This card has been known to overheat on me in the past, but it has never generated a blue screen. I did some googling and discovered that for most people, this is a driver going into infinite loop, because of a half-failed installation, or corrupted registry entry. I have the latest Catalyst driver from ATI/AMD's website.
Before my question, system specs:
Asus A8V
Opteron 185
2g Corsair XMS DDR400
GeCube x1950xt
700w OCZ Gamexstream PSU
2x WD Raptor 36g RAID 0
I have heard thru the rumor mill that Oblivion doesn't like VIA chipsets. Can anyone confirm??
OK, my question. I thought this was heat until last night. I ran a stress test on my VPU and it didn't shut down even as high as 90c. This seems to only happen in 3d apps, and monitoring the tempratures, they never got near 90c at the blue screen.
Does that make sense to anyone?
Also, I replaced the stock cooler on this card with the Zalman GPU cooler, which is great in it's own respect. However, and this is what has my curiosity at the moment; the stock cooler had a TEC on it. Which was wired into the card. After removing it, there is an exposed "header" on the card now where nothing is connected. Do you guys think that there is some hardware trigger that is calling the driver to turn on the TEC in 3d apps and when it doesn't sense it, it just loops? Should i jumper that header? Is that even a possible cause??
Any suggestions would be nice. I am going home tonight to do a full diagnostic on my mobo/ram to remove them as variables of the crash.
This GPU has reset my machine before, but only after 6 hours of Battlefield 2142 and there was no blue screen, just a reboot. Oblivion didn't take more than 5 mins to blue screen and turn off my GPU.
As a side note, when it blue screens, my monitor stops receiving a signal from my GPU, which is normal if the GPU is shutting down. However! After the bluescreen, the CPU resets and boots normally into windows, but I still have no video. I just know it boots because I hear the lovely XP startup jingle.
Sorry for the long post, didn't want to leave any info out.
Thanks in advance!
I have the GeCube x1950xt. This card has been known to overheat on me in the past, but it has never generated a blue screen. I did some googling and discovered that for most people, this is a driver going into infinite loop, because of a half-failed installation, or corrupted registry entry. I have the latest Catalyst driver from ATI/AMD's website.
Before my question, system specs:
Asus A8V
Opteron 185
2g Corsair XMS DDR400
GeCube x1950xt
700w OCZ Gamexstream PSU
2x WD Raptor 36g RAID 0
I have heard thru the rumor mill that Oblivion doesn't like VIA chipsets. Can anyone confirm??
OK, my question. I thought this was heat until last night. I ran a stress test on my VPU and it didn't shut down even as high as 90c. This seems to only happen in 3d apps, and monitoring the tempratures, they never got near 90c at the blue screen.
Does that make sense to anyone?
Also, I replaced the stock cooler on this card with the Zalman GPU cooler, which is great in it's own respect. However, and this is what has my curiosity at the moment; the stock cooler had a TEC on it. Which was wired into the card. After removing it, there is an exposed "header" on the card now where nothing is connected. Do you guys think that there is some hardware trigger that is calling the driver to turn on the TEC in 3d apps and when it doesn't sense it, it just loops? Should i jumper that header? Is that even a possible cause??
Any suggestions would be nice. I am going home tonight to do a full diagnostic on my mobo/ram to remove them as variables of the crash.
This GPU has reset my machine before, but only after 6 hours of Battlefield 2142 and there was no blue screen, just a reboot. Oblivion didn't take more than 5 mins to blue screen and turn off my GPU.
As a side note, when it blue screens, my monitor stops receiving a signal from my GPU, which is normal if the GPU is shutting down. However! After the bluescreen, the CPU resets and boots normally into windows, but I still have no video. I just know it boots because I hear the lovely XP startup jingle.
Sorry for the long post, didn't want to leave any info out.
Thanks in advance!