Psu or gpu memory?OR?

[deeprty]

Hi folks i self built my system a few years ago(about 5?) with the help of some lovely people on this forum and all was well , well until now.

SYSTEM
OS. win7,winxp
MB. GIGABYTE 9659-DS3
CPU. intel 6600
GPU. bfg 8800gts 320mb
PSU. corsair hx520w
RAM. 2X CORSAIR XMS2 CM2X512-6400C4
2X CORSAIR XMS2 CM2X1024-6400C4

when watching videos i started getting a display driver error on win7 which would recover but it slowly got worse over time , after reading a bit i decided to try solve it.

What i did,
1 stripped the pc down and cleaned everything then rebuilt -result same
2 installed winxp - result same but BSOD included
3 in xp i removed everything except 1 hardrive and gpu - result same

i'll just skip to where i'm at now

win xp installed MSI afterburner installed everst installed furmark installed all new drivers installed ,

temps are fine i think never seen it above 75 but i havn't stressed for more than 10 mins.

using after burner i under clocked my card memory to 675mhz and everything is working no bsod plus all videos look better ie. i'm not getting blue and red bits .
still with afterburner i cranked the fan down to see if my problems came back and they didn't

does this point to the memory or could the psu failing cause this also?
Also i am an idiot and havn't tried older drivers but thought that with the discovery of my gpu memory underclock solving the issue i may be ok

 

[hang-the-9]

From the fact that you have an 8800, I would point to the video card as the cause of th eissues. It seems to have a high rate of failure. If you look at the posts on the graphics forum, a great deal of "my card is not working right" posts come from 8800 owners.

Find a used 9800GT or something, should be about $40-50.

 

[darkphox]

I second Hang-the-9 here, if you are getting "blue and red bits" it sounds like your graphics card is at the touching cloth stage of poo-ing itself

 

[wa1]

The first thing you can try is use different card, if the problem goes away then you can blame your 8800GTS for your trouble...

Or you can try use only 1 stick of RAM and do the same with the other one, that's for BSOD problem.

 

[deeprty]

OK CHEERS FOLKS

i have read that the 8800's are having problems AND bfg 1's seem worse(they are bust now aint they?)

i'm now back on win7 i have underclocked my card and everything is working as intended no red bits or even blue bits lol
and no driver errors (so far) and i have tried to induce it

i can't test another card as i dont have 1 and can't get 1 but you guess that the card is what needs replacing not the psu so hopefully it will last until i get some cash together