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godsizesnakeyes   02-12-2008 at 04:00:45 PM

I have a new build that I have been running about 2 months now without any major problems. I have only had one crash and that was only because my first OC was alittle unstable. Current OC is soild and runs Orthos for 12 hours without a single error.

Now to the problem. While gaming every now and then all of the suddon my screen turns like a bright muddy yellowish brown and I have to restart my comp.

I suspect it has to do with one of two things because it started right after these changes I made about 5 days ago. The first which I dont think causes the problem is I added a new PWM fan to the CPU cooler that alows for piggy backing a second fan so I have two fans running on one fan header. Then second which I do suspect because it started happening a few hours after I installed the Vista 64bit edition ESET Smart Security. I did unistall my old Norton security so it shouln't be a conflict of that unless it left traces behind. It also has only seemed to happen while online in a game giving me further reason to suspect it.

Has anyone heard of anything like this, weird brown screen crashes? I have no idea how to trouble shoot this problem and I don't want to contact ESET support unless I am positive it is directly related to the ESET software.

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agentsmith957   02-12-2008 at 04:16:15 PM
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Try uninstalling the security software and see if the problem continues if you suspect that is causing the problem. Otherwize I would suspect buggy graphics drivers or other driver conflict

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roadrunner197069   02-12-2008 at 04:17:20 PM
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Uninstall ESET, if prbolem goes away thats it. If not reset your OC to default and test. How much OC are you doing and what kind of voltages?

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jnava121   02-12-2008 at 04:27:19 PM
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did you thow poop on the screen? brown????? hmm...

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evongugg   02-12-2008 at 04:36:46 PM
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2 fans on one header may not give enough juice.
Check your temepratures, video card and CPU.
Try taking the side panel off and running the game with a fan blowing on the video card.

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godsizesnakeyes   02-12-2008 at 04:46:52 PM
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Thanks for the speedy replies.


If i uninstall the the ESET software should I be reinstalling the Norton trial since I have like 2 weeks left? I really don't want to be without internet security for a couple days and thats problay how long it would take to see if ESET was the problem, mabey longer because it isn't frequent. It's happened 3 times only since last thursday night, I installed ESET thursday afternoon.

If ESET were the problem would it be possible to fix it somehow? Since I purchased a years worth it would be a shame if I couln't even use it.

The OC isn't extream and has run flawless for almost a month now. 4000 Brisbane @ 2.8GHz and 1.40v, DDR2800 @ 2.2v


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godsizesnakeyes   02-12-2008 at 04:50:28 PM
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evongugg wrote :

2 fans on one header may not give enough juice.
Check your temepratures, video card and CPU.
Try taking the side panel off and running the game with a fan blowing on the video card.




I know its not temps because I monitor that closely and everything is good. But would the CPU fan header not being able to give enough juice really cause a problem like I am having?

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michiganteddybear   02-12-2008 at 05:05:29 PM
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well, just want to throw in something about norton..

removing norton (all symantec products actually) will always leave some parts behind.. even the complete removal tool from symantec's site does not remove all parts of liveupdate..

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rallyimprezive   02-12-2008 at 05:35:10 PM
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godsizesnakeyes wrote :

Thanks for the speedy replies.


If i uninstall the the ESET software should I be reinstalling the Norton trial since I have like 2 weeks left? I really don't want to be without internet security for a couple days and thats problay how long it would take to see if ESET was the problem, mabey longer because it isn't frequent. It's happened 3 times only since last thursday night, I installed ESET thursday afternoon.

If ESET were the problem would it be possible to fix it somehow? Since I purchased a years worth it would be a shame if I couln't even use it.

The OC isn't extream and has run flawless for almost a month now. 4000 Brisbane @ 2.8GHz and 1.40v, DDR2800 @ 2.2v




Well thats just silly. You will survive a few days without the security.

If you are REALLY that worried, remove your computer from the network. You can still test your games....

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godsizesnakeyes   02-16-2008 at 04:29:31 PM
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I think I narrowed it down to having a second monitor hooked up. Could be a driver problem with my 3850 which would be just fine cause I don't really need 2 displays going anyway. Been going thru trial and error and it seems to be the culprit so hopefully I have it resolved now.

Thanks for the responses.

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Bluescreendeath   08-24-2009 at 04:25:09 AM
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Sorry to bump this year old topic but I have the same issue.
My games crash to a brown or purple screen with infinite sound loops, forcing me to restart.

I have only 1 monitor with a GTX260 sp216, the game I play is Left4Dead downloaded from steam.

My GPU idles around 55-60'C and peaks at 78'C


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jlear3   08-24-2009 at 05:22:10 AM
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Bluescreendeath wrote :

Sorry to bump this year old topic but I have the same issue.
My games crash to a brown or purple screen with infinite sound loops, forcing me to restart.

I have only 1 monitor with a GTX260 sp216, the game I play is Left4Dead downloaded from steam.

My GPU idles around 55-60'C and peaks at 78'C




bad input but.. BSD gets BrownSOD/PSOD

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Bluescreendeath   08-24-2009 at 06:02:10 AM
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jlear3 wrote :

bad input but.. BSD gets BrownSOD/PSOD



lol, yeh I actually haven't gotten the blueSOD in almost a year. :D


Message edited by Bluescreendeath on 08-24-2009 at 06:10:12 AM
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jlear3   08-24-2009 at 08:48:56 AM
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hah none here since my corsair

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Bluescreendeath   08-24-2009 at 07:43:53 PM
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so can anyone pinpoint my problem?

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Bluescreendeath   08-25-2009 at 05:39:08 AM
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bp

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tkgclimb   08-26-2009 at 01:17:31 AM
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maybe the GPU doesn't like the downloaded game. Does it happen during a gpu stress test or any other games

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