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White Fang 12
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As the title say my computer has issues. It freezes for minutes during random games, even when put on jumbled mess of pixels mode. It keeps telling me my graphics card has stopped working. I recently wiped my computer but it had issues before that. I have overkill fans so over heating is not a problem. replaced the thermal paste, which was poorly placed. Its not the graphics card because i swapped with another family member who had the same card and had the same issues. What is my problem?

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Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6002) Service Pack 2
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz
System Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model: 965P-DS3
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS


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Mahoney
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Posted: 11th Aug 2009 05:34
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We'll need more info about the errors than that.

Quote: "It keeps telling me my graphics card has stopped working."


How, exactly, does it tell you that? (A screenshot would be even better)

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White Fang 12
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Posted: 11th Aug 2009 13:53
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I would love to give a screen shot but the message comes for a second then gos away, actually it say something such as you graphics card stopped working but recovered. sorry i can't tell you more but i have not got that error for a while, mainly because I avoid the games that give me issues, and take them off.


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Van B
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Posted: 11th Aug 2009 14:06
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Try different memory, as it's easy enough to switch out - I had issue after issue recently, started with things going wrong with my GFX card and ended in me replacing the GFX card, mobo, CPU, and then finally replacing the memory fixed it.

Cheaply made memory is the problem I think, we believe we are spending a little extra to get good memory, but we're really not, to get the best memory we have to spend a lot extra. Things like memory chip heatsinks can help, but thats something to worry about if it is your memory needing replaced.


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 11th Aug 2009 14:09
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Power supply?

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David R
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Quote: "I would love to give a screen shot but the message comes for a second then gos away, actually it say something such as you graphics card stopped working but recovered"


You're running Vista, meaning that error is telling you the graphic card's driver stopped working

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White Fang 12
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret: I got a better power supply because we thought that may be the problem.

Van B: I used memtest86+, so my memory shouldn't be faulty, and all my family's computer have the same memory and they run perfectly.

David R: are you saying my driver is to blame if it is tell me what driver i should get because I'm using the newest driver.


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lazerus
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It may be a corrupt driver, try reinstalling it.

Also for the power supply, check youv got the write one, Iv done that on my old desktop now i have a new one...

If your also getting blue screened its most likly the Hdd as i had a faulty one that kept coming up with;

System has recovered from a serious error. // something along those lines...

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Posted: 12th Aug 2009 01:41
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Quote: "Quote: "I would love to give a screen shot but the message comes for a second then gos away, actually it say something such as you graphics card stopped working but recovered"

You're running Vista, meaning that error is telling you the graphic card's driver stopped working"


I had that problem recently. Lowering the clock speed on my card helped at first, but I'm not sure that it is a permanent solution.

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White Fang 12
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Posted: 12th Aug 2009 15:54 Edited at: 12th Aug 2009 16:50
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How much did you lower it?

Update: I under clocked by 30 MHz, on the core bus and memory bus. I played bioshock, which had unstable frame rates even on lowest setting, and could play it on normal graphics with little problem (one slight slow down). Still can't play the game at highest settings but that's because my card can't handle that to begin with. I am wondering why underclocking work since the card was and always has been at factory settings, and my power supply (tell me if they're un related) is better then then the rest of my family's, and they have no issue. But I won't question it, my computer works and that's all that matters.


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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Well, I found that DVD playback was really suffering on my new system. As a last resort, I looked in the BIOS; the RAM was underclocked to 60mHz from 667, I'm surprised it worked at all...

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White Fang 12
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Well as my post above said under clocking my gpu fixed the issue, now i want to know why that worked. because i know for a fact my computer should have run fine with out underclocking, because my family has other PC's that are practically the same, and have no issues. but for now I'll enjoy some more bioshock.


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Quote: "Well as my post above said under clocking my gpu fixed the issue, now i want to know why that worked. because i know for a fact my computer should have run fine with out underclocking, because my family has other PC's that are practically the same, and have no issues. but for now I'll enjoy some more bioshock."


How long have you been using that graphics card? It could be mildly worn-out. Also, did Bioshock eventually crash again? Crysis (the game that caused the problem for me) did.

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White Fang 12
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Posted: 13th Aug 2009 01:52
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no its fine now. no lock ups, no crashing, nothing.


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Posted: 13th Aug 2009 05:22
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I wonder what's wrong with mine, then. :/

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