Hello. I have recently been experiencing some trouble whilst playing certain games. When playing Left 4 Dead 2 or Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 I have no trouble for about 10 minutes but then all of a sudden the screen will freeze & go pink and my computer will not respond to any input, forcing a reboot. I have no trouble whilst using many other graphically challenging games such as Dragon Age or Battlefield Bad Company 2. My graphics card is an Nvidia GeForce 280 GTX and it is about 2 years old, it runs at about 50C idle and reaches a high of 88C when fully active. It is fully up-to-date in regards to drivers and I have tried re-seating it back on the mobo. As I said, I experience no trouble whilst using many other applications (barring one incident when playing StarCraft 2). So does this sound like my graphics card has developed a fault or do you think it could be a problem elsewhere?. My current specs: Asus P6T mobo Intel Core i7 930 Nvidia GTX 280 GPU 6gb RAM Antec 850 PSU Windows 7 64-bit
Are you getting any other artifacts? Graphics overheating can cause lockups on Windows systems. Try hitting it with some Furmark and see what happens.
All my drivers are fully up-to-date, The only other problem I've recently experienced is that Windows sometimes fails to boot up. It happens about once a week and after a few goes it is fine again. I recently re-seated my RAM sticks because Windows was telling me I only had 4gb instaed of 6, and I have'nt had any problems booting Win7 since, but that was only a couple of days ago so I'll have to wait to see if that was upsetting my rig. Von Lazuli, sorry to sound like a noob (unfortunatly I am sort of) but what is Furmark?.
But if it is a graphics card problem, why am I not experiencing any problems with other graphics-heavy applications?. Is this common? or does it suggest that the card is starting to show its first signs of fault?.
OK, I've now run a stability test on Furmark and it showed no problems at all. Does that suggest that my problem lies elsewhere? and if so, where?. I've tried re-seating my RAM sticks and my GPU. Could it be the PSU?.
Likewise. I wouldn't bake it in the oven just yet though (at least it works for 10 minutes if nothing else!) If you can, try it out in a mate's PC - see if it does the same thing, and try RMAing it if possible after that.
Yeah, unfortunatly only one of my mates owns a working PC (which isn't a laptop) and his is quite old (only game he plays? Football Manager) so my GPU won't fit onto his mobo anyway. Bakes, thanks for the help, but I could'nt quite understand: are you agreeing with Parge that the problem is probably with my graphics card? and what do you mean when you say 'RMAing it'? Cheers.
I do keep it clean. I'm currently using an Antec 1200 case which features 5 fans all fitted with dust filters.
