reid8470 Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Hey, i'm having a problem where my computer freezes, well, whenever any load seems to be put on the graphics card. I'm wondering if my TX750W PSU could be behind this? I currently have to run in XP because I can't get to Windows 7's desktop (win7 desktop uses GPU to process it). In XP, whenever I open any sort of game (World of Warcraft for example) the computer freezes instantly and loads of colored dots cover the screen, as shown in the pictures I took: http://i45.tinypic.com/11tr4gw.jpg http://i49.tinypic.com/k2e4o2.jpg http://i45.tinypic.com/2mphnhz.jpg http://i48.tinypic.com/21yezl.jpg http://i47.tinypic.com/2cn8s90.jpg I'm really not sure what this is, I haven't seen it before. Put my computer together all nice 'n new about 2 weeks ago. Been in contact with tech support at MicroCenter and BFG Tech for ~2 days with no solution, but I have narrowed it down to being either the GPU or Power Supply, although I'm not completely sure. EDIT: Just tried something that came to my attention after running BurnInTest: I opened World of Warcraft in windowed mode.. And it runs fine. The crash occurs when I open up any game in full-screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 try the CUDA drivers, http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html they are official. as long as it changes or fixes the issue that points to the GPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reid8470 Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 Should I only try the drivers? When I run the installer for CUDA drivers version 2.3, it says that the drivers are older than what is currently installed. Should I install over it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synthohol Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 did you use the forceware drivers from nvidea or the drivers windows found? either way all i run are the cuda drivers here and its smooth sailing. it sure dont hurt to try :) also if you boot into safe mode will it let you run the game to see if the erratic display happens? safe mode should only run the standard vga drivers IIRC so you can eliminate or point to a bad driver. my AOL IM is my screenname if you want to take this to live chat? im usually around:): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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