Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject:
Help!
Subject description: wtf is happening to my GPU?
Hey everyone, I need some help here. Very recently (Saturday I believe) my computer started acting very strange. Random dots would appear, random squares, and images, etc. Then it started going to black, and freezing up.
I discovered that my GPU is causing this. When the computer goes to black screen and comes back it says that nvlddmkm stopped responding. I have installed the most recent NVIDIA drivers, and I have also tried installing old ones. I formatted my system, but nothing works.
When I don't install the drivers, everything works, but I have crappy resolution and the display sucks.
Anybody had this problem? Possibly know how to fix it?
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Ahh well i see that the problem with that is . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . Damn Vista! xD always giving problems, reason number 6428895 why people dont use vista and use xp instead xD
But seriously considered changing your monitor? a new pc monitor was doing exactly the same thing today at college, perhaps that could be the problem if not your graphics card may have problems? _________________
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what happens if you run a 3d program like benchmark or ego-shooter?
Can the card render the 3d stuff correct?
Does this error also appears during the boot process? If yes it could indeed be a hardware problem. If not it would look more like a windaft problem.
Another reason for stuff like this could be a monitor cable break, where several (normaly separate) wires come in contact to each other and mess up the picture.
You should check your monitor on a different pc, then the graca on a different pc, so you can really make sure which one causes the problems.
Do you checked the GPU temperature at some point before? Do you had hot days in the last weeks where you live? Maybe your graca went hot and broke. _________________ SHP Artist of Twisted Insurrection: Nod buildings
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Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:28 pm Post subject:
Team Cake wrote:
Vista is far superior to your DX9.
LOL^9001
Seriously. Holy gawd. Since when is an API that's still BARELY used by the general public, much less a measly 29 games (pending the release of 11 of those), superior? Provide a good answer or have your avatar be uncovered to be a lie. There's a reason XP "fanboys" exist, and that's because nobody needs Vista. Zero. None. Wait, more RAM in the itinerary? Give me a use for more than the 3.2-3.4 GB of RAM that you're limited to in XP 32-bit due to PCI addressing and whatnot. I'll wait. I'm not even using all of my 2GB set, much less stressing it. _________________
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Go to windows/system32/drivers and rename nvlddmkm.sys to
nvlddmkm.sys.old. Go to the NVIDIA directory and find the file nvlddmkm.sy_ and copy it to windows/system32.
Using the ‘cmd’ window, (DOS box) type “EXPAND.EXE nvlddmkm.sy_ nvlddmkm.sys”. When the expansion is complete,
copy the new nvlddmkm.sys to windows/system32/drivers and restart the computer.
And rawr, I dunno if it happens to anyone else, but when I have XP installed it only downloads files at 50kbs when normally I get about 1.2mbs on Vista.
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Either you were fooled by Microsoft to buy crappy vista
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Help!
Which is caused by overheating.
