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8800GTX stops responding in high stress games

PESolution

PESolution

PESolution

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Hi all,
As stated in my sig when i play high stress games for a while my screen goes black for a few sections then flicks on and off. Then ig et an error message in taskbar saying that my gfx card has stopped responding. At first i gather it wasnt stbale enough at the overlcock i had it set to so i took away the overclocking all together to make it totally standard and i still get the problem. Anybody got any ideas? My gfx card does seem hot but i have the fan set to 100% all the time so it should be this?

Cheers
 
The game that does it to me the most at the moment is Garrysmod (very high cpu/gfx load when u have a lot of stuff spawned and all the physics going on).
 
pjansell: It is very hot to touch, but 8800gtx's run hot anyway? I dont know exactly what temp sorry.

sweeney: its flicks to black screen the back to the game with some graphic errors at about 1fps,so i then alt+f4 the program or minimise to desktop to find an error message about the card stopping responding. I then gota restart the pc to fix it.
 
The card will be very hot to the touch under normal conditions, worthwhile having gpu-z running in the background which will show you fan speeds and temps reached
 
TheMagic1an said:
It could be the drivers you are using, maybe try a different set?.

Download the trial of everest and check your temps there.
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I hadnt thoguht of this. And thinking about it i did upgrade them reasonably recently! Hmmm, could you suggest a nice stable set of nvidia drivers?
 
Sweeney said:
The card will be very hot to the touch under normal conditions, worthwhile having gpu-z running in the background which will show you fan speeds and temps reached
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Thanks for the advice, i will give this program a go next time i have a gaming session and see :)
 
I had similar lock ups with mine and it was caused by the card over heating. I'm not sure why it did, but I changed the cooler on it to an after market one and now it is much happier, much cooler, and hasn't crashed on me :).

I don't think the cooler on mine was on properly to be honest. And the thermal material between the cooler and the chips(I haven't got a clue what it is) that comes on the card seemed a bit pathetic.
 
Corran said:
I had similar lock ups with mine and it was caused by the card over heating. I'm not sure why it did, but I changed the cooler on it to an after market one and now it is much happier, much cooler, and hasn't crashed on me :).

I don't think the cooler on mine was on properly to be honest. And the thermal material between the cooler and the chips(I haven't got a clue what it is) that comes on the card seemed a bit pathetic.
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which cooler u using? how much, and is it easy to install?
thanks in advance
 
Sorry I wasn't paying attention.

I'm using this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...cat=787&name=Thermalright HR-03-GT VGA Cooler

It does a very good job and the reviews for it are positive. I've got a fan attached to it for more cooling although you have to buy the fan yourself.

The one problem with it is the little ram chip heatsinks... the tape that is used to stick them on is rubbish and they fall off if you are not careful. All of mine are on but it took awhile for me to get them to stick!

*edit* Linked the wrong one :p. Also find out what temperature your card is running at when it crashes, no point in getting the after market cooler if the card isn't too hot :).
 
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PESolution said:
Hi all,
As stated in my sig when i play high stress games for a while my screen goes black for a few sections then flicks on and off. Then ig et an error message in taskbar saying that my gfx card has stopped responding. At first i gather it wasnt stbale enough at the overlcock i had it set to so i took away the overclocking all together to make it totally standard and i still get the problem. Anybody got any ideas? My gfx card does seem hot but i have the fan set to 100% all the time so it should be this?

Cheers
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Hi, my BFG 8800GTX used to exhibit exactly the same symptoms as well. I bought my card on launch day in '06. It had been running overclocked at 625/1450/1900 for most of it's life, and started showing the problem earlier in summer this year, usually after an hour or so of playing WoW. I backed off the clockspeeds back to stock, cleaned out the cooler and it would still do it occasionally. Eventually, I tried underclocking the card to 500/1200/1800 and the problem seemed to go away.

I put it down to the card just slowly dying. However, I bought a laptop soon after to replace my desktop so never quite did get to the bottom of it.
 
PESolution said:
urgh thats what i currently have
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Well if you have just been getting this problem with these drivers then go back to a older set.

Actually i was getting the same problem as you with these drivers a few days ago, but this happened to me on the desktop when loading media player. I used driver cleaner and reinstalled them. I haven't had any problems yet (touch wood).

It could be these drivers are a bit buggy, as i've never had the stop responding error until these.

I doubt it's anything heat related tho. The stock cooler is actually very good, so i wouldn't bother changing it, maybe try cleaning it out.
 
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