My computer has been having repeated blue screens lately and it appears to be related to the video card as the last time my computer crashed when i went to restart it had a long beep followed by 2 short beeps which seems to point to a video problem. Odd thing is the 4850 runs games fine it just crashes after a random amount of time being on.
Before the last crash i had tried older drivers thinking maybe i was having trouble after installing the latest ones. When that didn't work i tried a reformat so i tried it with a fresh install and didn't seem to crash before i installed drivers but I only had it running without them for a little while and the crashes are quite unpredictable. I also tried dual booting in linux and i have yet to have a single problem while running ubuntu 10.10 and I used it for most of the day. Where in 3 hours in windows 7 it has crashed twice.
I just have trouble believing that my graphics card likes ubuntu enough to soldier on while running windows for a hour or so will lead to a failure. Figured I would see if you guys have any ideas i could try before i scrap the old card since it still runs games good enough for me.
I used blue screen viewer to see what caused the crash and it has shown a few different things i wish i would have thought to back up the errors before reformatting. Its not a heat problem as I monitored the temps and they all stayed in the same ranges I'm used to seeing. The power supply is new but I would like to believe i wouldn't get 2 messed up ones in a row from newegg, Also tried testing the ram and they worked fine and memtest gave them the all clear.
Sorry if I'm a little hard to follow kinda tired from fighting with my computer all day. At least if it is the graphics card i will have an answer to the problem
Before the last crash i had tried older drivers thinking maybe i was having trouble after installing the latest ones. When that didn't work i tried a reformat so i tried it with a fresh install and didn't seem to crash before i installed drivers but I only had it running without them for a little while and the crashes are quite unpredictable. I also tried dual booting in linux and i have yet to have a single problem while running ubuntu 10.10 and I used it for most of the day. Where in 3 hours in windows 7 it has crashed twice.
I just have trouble believing that my graphics card likes ubuntu enough to soldier on while running windows for a hour or so will lead to a failure. Figured I would see if you guys have any ideas i could try before i scrap the old card since it still runs games good enough for me.
I used blue screen viewer to see what caused the crash and it has shown a few different things i wish i would have thought to back up the errors before reformatting. Its not a heat problem as I monitored the temps and they all stayed in the same ranges I'm used to seeing. The power supply is new but I would like to believe i wouldn't get 2 messed up ones in a row from newegg, Also tried testing the ram and they worked fine and memtest gave them the all clear.
Sorry if I'm a little hard to follow kinda tired from fighting with my computer all day. At least if it is the graphics card i will have an answer to the problem
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