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Wudozet   11-15-2009 at 07:15:52 AM

My computer has crashed a couple times, but not a BSOD or shut off crash, instead it goes to a dark screen and the power stays on (have to manually shut if off). Always happens when I'm playing a game, can't quite tell what's going on. I've played Crysis and EVE Online without any problems, but whenever I play WoW/WAR/Darkfall it happens.

I'm afraid these crashes were the reason my last PSU burned out (though it was a good 2~ years old), got a 850W Corsair and I'd rather not have it burn out.

Didn't really know what section to put this in, but my best guess was the GPU overheating.

Any idea's to what could be causing the crashes?

Edit, forgot quick specs:

Windows 7 64-bit Professional
Athlon 64 x2 5400+
NVidia 8800GTS 640MB
2GB RAM
ASUSTeK M2N-E SLI Motherboard


Message edited by Wudozet on 11-15-2009 at 07:38:52 AM
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Wudozet   11-15-2009 at 07:28:13 AM

sorry forgot specs, its a 8800GTS 640MB

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jay2tall   11-15-2009 at 07:50:58 AM

Is anything overclocks?

What are your temps idle and in game for your GPU?

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Wudozet   11-15-2009 at 08:03:23 AM

nothing is overlocked, right now im idling at 55C according to speedfan, haven't checked ingame, i'd really rather not crash again, but I will try in a bit

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jay2tall   11-15-2009 at 08:09:21 AM

That is pretty normal. Id check load tems and go from there. If the card is under warranty, contact the manufacture for a replacement.

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Wudozet   11-15-2009 at 08:20:19 AM

looks like 66-67C under load, i doubt my warranty is still valid the card is 2-3 years old. i'd be up for getting a new card if i knew that's what was causing the crashes

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Wudozet   11-15-2009 at 09:48:32 AM

just happened again, this time it went a dark yellow color and kept flashing... ugh this sucks

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jay2tall   11-15-2009 at 04:15:53 PM

I've seen it when the video memory starts to go bad. The old ATI x1900's had a similar issue. Your temps are nice and cool. But it could be worth trying to repaste your cooler. Remove it, clean off the goop on the gpu, reapply some paste and see what happens. Even though it is not overheating sometimes a quick spike in temps can cause the heat not to transfer as quickly. Just a thought.

What brand card is it? XFX and EVGA both has lifetime warranties.

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Wudozet   11-15-2009 at 11:04:21 PM

so i decided to take out the card and thoroughly dust it out, put it back in and temps dropped a good 5 degrees. loaded up my game and sat around a while to see if anything happened... but of course right when i think everything is okay and go to do something it crashes yet again. from what i can see is it goes to a solid color (random, its been red, yellow, purple...) and flashes black while i think it's trying to restart. eventually it sounds like it does restart and stops flashing, but stays the solid color. i just want to make sure it's the GPU, would suck to replace it and have it be something else.

thanks

edit: its EVGA


Message edited by Wudozet on 11-15-2009 at 11:05:30 PM
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