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.

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

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?

did you thow poop on the screen? brown????? hmm...

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.

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

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?

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..

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....

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.