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Blue screen and rebooting often

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Boxcarhobo, 16 Aug 2007.

  1. Boxcarhobo

    Boxcarhobo What's a Dremel?

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    It happened 2 times now,blue screen for a 0.1 of a sec and reboot,so i cant read whats wrong.there are some strange sounds from my buffer when that happens too,i tried memtest everything seems fine,i think its my GPU,can you give me some test which i can run under Win to check whats wrong.I have no idea what to look for.
     
  2. capnPedro

    capnPedro Hacker. Maker. Engineer.

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    Right click my computer
    Advanced system settings [Vista]
    Startup and recovery -> Settings
    Untick Automatically restart

    (more or less)

    Write down the details of the BSoD.
     
  3. Boxcarhobo

    Boxcarhobo What's a Dremel?

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    will do that thank you !
     
  4. Boxcarhobo

    Boxcarhobo What's a Dremel?

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    okay happened 1 more time while playing wow -

    System_service_exeption
    stop 0x0000000003b(0x0000000c00005
    0xfffff97ffff5d3455
    0xffffadf78f83070
    0x000000
    ffffff97ff5d3455


    nv4_disp.dll


    datestamp 44628c992

    thats what it was(roughly)
    what nv4_disp.dll mean
    can some1 help me out why is this happening
     
  5. Veles

    Veles DUR HUR

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    Looks like your graphics card drivers are being ghey (I think).

    I suggest you download the latest ones and reinstall them. I had the same problem as you and that sorted it out.

    If you don't know, the best way to do it is to use driver cleaner pro to make sure the drivers are properly gone before installing the new ones.

    Uninstal the drivers from add/remove programs
    Open driver cleaner pro, select nVidia and then click start
    reboot
    install new drivers
    reboot

    I think thats the way to do it.

    If that doesn't solve the problem then your card might be overheating/borked.
     
  6. DougEdey

    DougEdey I pwn all your storage

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    It could also be the nVidia firewall and IDE drivers.
     
  7. Boxcarhobo

    Boxcarhobo What's a Dremel?

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    thank you very much!will do that when i have time,
    Cheers mate
     
  8. Boxcarhobo

    Boxcarhobo What's a Dremel?

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    did all that but it crashed all over again
    isnt there any app with which i can see whats wrong?
     
  9. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    Shouldn't this be in tech support?

    Anyway. As previously stated, nv4_disp.dll as far as I know, is the graphics driver. This doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with the driver though. It could be faulty hardware.

    Download ntune from nvidia's website and check your graphics card temperatures. Although an overheating card would produce all sorts of junk on the screen before it dies.

    There are a number of things that could be causing this though, and its really hard to pinpoint it without testing each part of the computer. It could be the power supply crapping out. It could be the motherboard going faulty and sending junk data to the GPU. It could even be your hard drive.

    Defrag your hard drive, then run a chkdsk (in the run box type "chkdsk c: /r", it will ask if you want to check the disk next time the pc reboots, select yes) then reboot the machine.

    If that doesn't help, then uninstall the motherboard drivers and graphics drivers, reboot, then install new ones starting with the motherboard drivers.

    Your motherboard should have come with some sort of utility to check temperatures and voltages (On ASUS boards its called PC Probe II, you can download it from their site, or install it from the CD that came with your motherboard). Run it, and post a screenshot so we can see if there is anything up with your voltages. Also, run a game in windowed mode and post a screenshot of the motherboard utility and ntune showing GPU temperatures.

    Also, what is your PC specification?
     
  10. Boxcarhobo

    Boxcarhobo What's a Dremel?

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    no i'm sure its not my hard becouse it done the same thing before i installed new hard drives.
    my pc is
    E6600
    Striker extreme
    8800GTX xfx
    4gb ocz 6400 cas 5 (cant run on cas4)
    2x 74gb raptors + 500 gig seagate
    700W seasonic M12
    X-fi music xtreme


    i think i've fixed the graphic issue tho,doesnt show that error anymore - it shows this one now

    Stop:0x000000000007f(0x00000000000c,0x00000000000000080050031)
    0x00000000000000000000,0xffffffff8000104feea
    i think its memory
    said it began memory dumping
    doesn any of you recognise this error?
     
  11. Shielder

    Shielder Live long & prosper!

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    Try googling for it.

    I did (and after removing too many 0's and about a minute of my time) I got to this page. It has links to the MS KB article on STOP:0x7f errors.

    Hope that helps.

    Andy
     
  12. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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  13. slugs

    slugs Minimodder

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    you can test your ram with the vista cd as well. its quite a good ram tested. used it to prove my balistic tracers where faultly
     
  14. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    Negative. Its awful!
     
  15. capnPedro

    capnPedro Hacker. Maker. Engineer.

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    QFT. It has nothing on Memtest86+.
     
  16. Boxcarhobo

    Boxcarhobo What's a Dremel?

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    did memtest but not whole,no problems
    should i run the whole one?
     
  17. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    Yep!
     
  18. Boxcarhobo

    Boxcarhobo What's a Dremel?

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    it gives me some Ctaud2k.sys error now
    what to do?
     
  19. Shielder

    Shielder Live long & prosper!

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    Did you google the error code? Have you looked on the MS site for the error code?
     
  20. slugs

    slugs Minimodder

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    youve certainly got a nice list of issues.

    Ctaud2k.sys is normally a creative sound driver. there are some drivers no the creative site. but they aren't that good at supporting "legacy" clients
     

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