I'm going to murder my graphics card.

[Bali]

Hey everyone.

I am getting out of ideas to fix a graphics card problem, so I'm posting here, in case someone has an idea. Not so long ago, I started to have instant BSODs whenever I tried to log in. I can't remember what the code was, but it mentionned nvlddkm.sys. My card was a 8800GT. I looked up on the internetz, and came to the conclusion that maybe my card was faulty, so I decided to bought another card.

I bought an EVGA GTX 560 Ti with 2GB of memory. The card runned with absolutely no problems for a day or two, then, whenever I play a game that is kinda gpu-intensive (like Starcraft 2, Skyrim, etc). When I run games such as Diablo 2, I get no problems. When it crashes, the BSOD code is 116.

Here's what windows is telling me about it:
BCCode: 116
BCP1: FFFFFA800816B4E0
BCP2: FFFFF8800F5A74D4
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 000000000000000D
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1

Sometimes, when I'm not running anything intensive, my screen goes black for a few seconds and then comes back and Windows tells me that the driver wasn't responding and recovered. When this starts to happen, it does so every 5 minutes or so and eventually my screen begins to tear up.

I should also note that when I use a Quadro FX 570M, I get absolutely no problems, even when running SC2 (however I have to run it at Low settings with that card)

Here is my current setup:

Windows 7 64-bits
EVGA GTX 560 Ti 2GB
4x1GB DDR2 RAM
Intel Core Duo E6850 @ 3.00 GHz
2x2TB Barracuda Seagate Harddisks (setted in RAID 1)
CoolMaster Silent Pro M 850W

Things I have tried so far:

Changing the PSU (had the stock 375W that came with my Dell XPS 420)
Uninstalling and reinstalling drivers
Trying other RAM (tried 2x1GB DDR2 ram)
Ran memtest for a while and no errors reported
Updating the graphics card BIOS
Reset the CMOS

With my 8800GT, formatted and reinstalled windows.

All of the above did not worked. Anyone out there has an idea?

[BobCox2]

If no warranty and all else fails
Cook it.



Seriously.

I avoid NVidia drivers they do they a lot

[hotdogtesting]

If no warranty and all else fails
Cook it.



Seriously.

I avoid NVidia drivers they do they a lot

I avoid ATI cards, because they cook themselves!

[Jcakes]

Hey everyone.

I am getting out of ideas to fix a graphics card problem, so I'm posting here, in case someone has an idea. Not so long ago, I started to have instant BSODs whenever I tried to log in. I can't remember what the code was, but it mentionned nvlddkm.sys. My card was a 8800GT. I looked up on the internetz, and came to the conclusion that maybe my card was faulty, so I decided to bought another card.

I bought an EVGA GTX 560 Ti with 2GB of memory. The card runned with absolutely no problems for a day or two, then, whenever I play a game that is kinda gpu-intensive (like Starcraft 2, Skyrim, etc). When I run games such as Diablo 2, I get no problems. When it crashes, the BSOD code is 116.

Here's what windows is telling me about it:
BCCode: 116
BCP1: FFFFFA800816B4E0
BCP2: FFFFF8800F5A74D4
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 000000000000000D
OS Version: 6_1_7601
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 256_1

Sometimes, when I'm not running anything intensive, my screen goes black for a few seconds and then comes back and Windows tells me that the driver wasn't responding and recovered. When this starts to happen, it does so every 5 minutes or so and eventually my screen begins to tear up.

I should also note that when I use a Quadro FX 570M, I get absolutely no problems, even when running SC2 (however I have to run it at Low settings with that card)

Here is my current setup:

Windows 7 64-bits
EVGA GTX 560 Ti 2GB
4x1GB DDR2 RAM
Intel Core Duo E6850 @ 3.00 GHz
2x2TB Barracuda Seagate Harddisks (setted in RAID 1)
CoolMaster Silent Pro M 850W

Things I have tried so far:

Changing the PSU (had the stock 375W that came with my Dell XPS 420)
Uninstalling and reinstalling drivers
Trying other RAM (tried 2x1GB DDR2 ram)
Ran memtest for a while and no errors reported
Updating the graphics card BIOS
Reset the CMOS

With my 8800GT, formatted and reinstalled windows.

All of the above did not worked. Anyone out there has an idea?

I had a very similar problem with an ATI card. I think I ended up underclocking it to get it to work. Apparently it is not an uncommon problem, I found it by searching the name of the dll that stops responding (in ATI's case i think it was ATIdvag.dll).

[hucca]

This is just a wild guess, but it helped me once (goes to the category when you locate the fault with a drum and chicken bones):

Switch the PCI-E slot.

[ajj]

my current graphic card made me hate all PCs and all graphic cards..

I gonna kill it too


Cohiba Behike 54 price

[juju]

My computer works great with GTX560 TI. No problems with this setup

[BobCox2]

Your not using Linux right?