asianman6924 Posted December 3, 2010 Share Posted December 3, 2010 OK so i have this major problem whenever i run really high demanding games. I have just installed Left for dead 2 and call of duty modern warfare two. I can play for 5 or 10 mins and then the whole computer freezes up and the monitor makes turns pink and purple (please see the pics below). Now my question is it my video cards going bad or is it that my power supply is dieing? The video cards that i have are (2) 260 GTXs and my power supply is a Corsair cmpsu-850TX (850 watts). I have tried everything including disabling sli, physically taking out one card and just playing with one card, and i tried putting the cards in different pci slots and the same thing happens... it crashes. The weird thing is that i can play counter strike fine since its a 11 year old game and doesn't put any stress on my video cards, but when i play l4d2 it crashes. Its not an overheating issue because i have program that monitors temperatures and when the computer locks the, the highest temp recorded on the video card is 61 which is fine. I have also tried running a video card stress test on both cards separately and within 5 secs (almost instantly) the computer freezes up. Does that mean that the video card is drawing alot of power from the psu and the psu is over-vaulting? It seems that the chances of BOTH video cards going bad is slim to none. It seems to me that the PSU is over-vaulting and causing the crashes, but i am not sure. Please help!! Any input and help is appericate! here is what my monitor looks like when the computer crashes pics here http://i.imgur.com/4A4c6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QzWok.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asianman6924 Posted December 4, 2010 Author Share Posted December 4, 2010 *BUMP* Any input or help is greatly appericated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 It's highly unlikely the PSU is over-volting as load would tend to make the voltage drop not increase. The problem sounds like it could be related to your Vid card(s) but it could be the Vid card drivers, RAM issues, etc. as they are all interrelated. If you fill out your PC specs it might be easier for people to help you as there are many possible causes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asianman6924 Posted December 4, 2010 Author Share Posted December 4, 2010 i ran memtest86+ for 5 hours and no errors came back. So you think its my Video cards? I also tried rolling back drivers on my video cards and when that didnt help, I updated to the latest versions, but still no luck :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Competiting brand names are censored on this forum because it's a Corsair only forum. If you can test your Vid cards in another PC that would be nice but there are many things that can cause a PC to freeze including any Windows O/S... Under-volting of the RAM, RAM latency timings, OC'ing the CPU/RAM, etc. can all cause BSODs and PC freezing. The only accurate means to check voltages is with a digital voltmeter or O-scope. You might want to clear the CMOS and manually set the BIOS options properly for your RAM, etc. and test one Vid card either with Intelburn Maximum, OCCT or your games to see if you can determine the cause of the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lugia Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Hey its possible the graphic cards are overheating when the GPU gets hot it causes graphics to look blurry or funny tryupdating video drivers or try looking for software to increase fan speeds on the gtx as those cards tend to have there fan speeds set at 35% not 100%my graphic card fan is set at 100% always i have no trouble hope it helps :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asianman6924 Posted December 4, 2010 Author Share Posted December 4, 2010 Hey its possible the graphic cards are overheating when the GPU gets hot it causes graphics to look blurry or funny tryupdating video drivers or try looking for software to increase fan speeds on the gtx as those cards tend to have there fan speeds set at 35% not 100%my graphic card fan is set at 100% always i have no trouble hope it helps :) Hmm... Well i did run realtemp and the highest temp I saw was around 65 or 63 degrees celcius which isnt that outta the ordinary right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asianman6924 Posted December 5, 2010 Author Share Posted December 5, 2010 Competiting brand names are censored on this forum because it's a Corsair only forum. If you can test your Vid cards in another PC that would be nice but there are many things that can cause a PC to freeze including any Windows O/S... Under-volting of the RAM, RAM latency timings, OC'ing the CPU/RAM, etc. can all cause BSODs and PC freezing. The only accurate means to check voltages is with a digital voltmeter or O-scope. You might want to clear the CMOS and manually set the BIOS options properly for your RAM, etc. and test one Vid card either with Intelburn Maximum, OCCT or your games to see if you can determine the cause of the problem? Ok so i ran Intelburn (interesting program) like you told me but something weird happens. If I run the burn test a maximum, the test finishes really quick (like in 5 secs) and says success (see pic) http://i.imgur.com/g0EEs.png i tried running the test at very high and here are the results http://i.imgur.com/VHtBg.png all my components including cpu and ram are running at default speeds (no overclocking or messing with latency timings). Another weird thing is that im not experiencing any Blue screens of deaths, but rather pink screens of death. Take a look at the pics i took. http://i.imgur.com/4A4c6.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QzWok.jpg so going off the burn test results from the very high test, it seems my cpu and ram are fine. So would it be my video cards?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asianman6924 Posted December 5, 2010 Author Share Posted December 5, 2010 also if you need it, here is a pic of my cpu and ram timings and speeds http://i.imgur.com/EYrkZ.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted December 6, 2010 Corsair Employee Share Posted December 6, 2010 Google search for "Pink Screen of Death GTX" and you will find that it's most likely related to bad memory on one of the graphics cards. This actually happened to my own system which was using a GTX280 at the time. I would test the cards individually to see if you can isolate the one with the problem, and contact the manufacturer for replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asianman6924 Posted December 7, 2010 Author Share Posted December 7, 2010 Google search for "Pink Screen of Death GTX" and you will find that it's most likely related to bad memory on one of the graphics cards. This actually happened to my own system which was using a GTX280 at the time. I would test the cards individually to see if you can isolate the one with the problem, and contact the manufacturer for replacement. wow it seem alot of 260 gtxs and 280 gtxs are affected! Guess I have 2 bad ones :\. Now is the time to put those lifetime warranties to good use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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