Hello all, first post I'm having some strange problems on my computer. My computer seems to lockup or pretty much freeze that I have to force restart once in awhile. I have had this card for about 3-4 months now and I'm begining to worry. I have ran stress tests and such but no errors were found for any componets on my computer. I haven't overclocked the card. I don't have corrupted programs, drivers etc. No viruses either. My drivers are clean. I did look at this thread at the Nvidia Fourms that people experianced issues in regarding their cards seemingly dying in within months after purchase and I'm thinking I am in this case. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=187401 Please help Thanks alot.
You did not say if the lockups appear during gaming on other tasks. Do you get the nvidia driver stopper working and recovered message?
Have you overclocked anything else on your computer? What programs does it lock up in? What driver are you on?
The lockups appear anytime, from gaming, to idling. I haven't overclocked anything on my computer, not the CPU or anything else. All left stocked. No, I don't recieve the Nvidia has stopped working but sucessfully recovered error. I'm running on 275.33.
You run 3 gigs in dual channel? How's that? Try with just one mem stick. I don't think the 450 has anything to do with it. It might be a hardware instability or software, OS problems. No BSOD just random freeze?
You could be right with newer chipsets, motherboards. You couldnt do it on older stuff from a few years back where not only ram sizes had to be identical, but timings even.
The motherboard I mentioned was an Athlon XP board. This excerpt was taken from the manual for my P5B board, also a few years old.
You and I have almost the same specs northo, LOL. Anyway, I don't have any BSOD issues. Windows 7 is running perfectly fine. But my computer is still hanging :/
have you reconsider a change of psu or reformating the machine and make a ney instalation of the os your mobo its erverthing at stock try get into bios mode and make sistem defaualts and then save to cmos
I don't plan on upgrading my PSU for awhile really.. I have reformatted my computer twice recently. My mobo is mostly at it's defaults settings, just disabling the onboard sound and that's it. The rest is stock.
Update: I'll run FurMark on my computer for at least 30 - 45 minutes. I'll be posting if things are good or not.
Another update that might require responses. FurMark was running for about 40 minutes max and then my computer hanged which needed my computer to force restart. Ran it with Post Processing on, 1440x900. What does this issue mean?