Pc Keeps crashing + screen goes Pixelated

hellarda

hellarda

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hi,

i'm getting these really annoying crashes whenever im gaming. im running two screens.

after about a minute of gaming my secondary screen goes 'pixelated'.




But my primary screen is normal.




the sound goes weird too. it just has a repeating tone that keeps changing every 5-10 seconds. i have to hold down the power button for 5 seconds and then completely reboot :confused:

Spec:

Q6600 @ 3.115Ghz (1.40 vcore)
Asus Striker II Fomula
2x 1Gb kingston hyperx Ram (900Mhz 2.14 V)
2x Xpertvision/Palit 9600Gt's SLI'ed (Stock)
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750Gb
PC power and Cooling Silencer 750 Quad
Antec Nine Hundred
Zalman CNPS 9700 NT

i dont think its overheating. temps:

CPU: 43C
GPU1: 36C
GPU2: 40C
HDD: 19C
NB: 50C
SB: 33C
MB: 19C

This is really p***ing me off.

any help would be appriciated

Cheers Ali
 
Feels like it would be "graphics department" related...
Have you tried different drivers/disabling SLI?
Also two such non exhausting graphic cards could heat each others.

And drop clocks to default and see what that does.
 
im using the 185.20 BETA drivers and it still did this before......... have tried downclocking all to defaults. still the same problem and same with disabling SLI
 
Try running the problematic monitor off the other port on the graphics card and the same for the TV, if it happen the other way round then its a faulty port, otherwise well have to look elsewhere :)

- Pea0n
 
No use same thing happened. Btw im running Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 but i think this is irrelevant as it was also crashing like this in vista 32 bit (and XP for that matter)
 
hellarda said:
No use same thing happened. Btw im running Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 but i think this is irrelevant as it was also crashing like this in vista 32 bit (and XP for that matter)
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Your using the first public ßeta of a new OS with ßeta graphics drivers with an overclocked CPU and you have stability issues?

Wise up.... de-clock, install XP or Vista, get it working at stock then over clock.
 
i have XP and Vista installed aswell (triple boot) and using exactly the same drivers......... and exactly the same thing happens. im not stupid.
 
hellarda said:
i have XP and Vista installed aswell (triple boot) and using exactly the same drivers......... and exactly the same thing happens. im not stupid.
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I'm sure you mean the same version numbers not exactly the same drivers. ;)

Have you tried putting everything back to stock?
 
I had similar problem with my ATI cards in fallout3, it was powerplay that caused this, I dont know if NVidia have an equivalent feature you can try disabling? see if that fixes it?
 
Yep have tried all at stock. Still same problem. I know that It is stable anyway ( 48 hours 4 instances of prime and 250 runs of intel burn test).
Not sure about an nvidia equivalent of powerplay??
 
passing prime and IBT dont mean much im afraid, they dont use your gfx much, try 3dmark06 and furmark, though that being said mine passed both ok, but my problem was game speciific, is yours specific or random?
 
Thanks for the replys. Yep have tried 3dmark 06, passed that fine. It's really weird. Becuase yesterday I shut the pc down and switched it off at the wall. Then turned back on again and it was fine played COD5 for about 3 hours and no crashes. I shut it Down again when I went to bed. Then this morning when it was having the same problem. So yes it is very random and not game specific.
 
I'm having the same looking problems with my card, a BFG 9800gtx+ however I am only using a single card & monitor not in SLI. It's only stock clocked, but my rig is overclocked, yet that will run Orthos all day and all night. Just using XP Sp3.

My crashes look identicle, except the colours vary, usually green and yellow. I have tested my dvi cable on another monitor & PC and its fine.

The 181.22 drivers recomended on Nvidia's website didn't allow my gfx card to run past 4 bit, so I'm using the back dated drivers from the 12/11/08.

But my PC first crashed in this fashion during Fallout 3 too, although now it can happen any random time, PC stressed or just idling.
 
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I had weird intermittent crashing issues and it seems to have been caused by fluff in the slot under one of my RAM sticks (I hope). It was very odd - used to get BSODs or resets when the ambient temperature was warm but could often game or run benchmarks for hours.

Re-seat and spring clean everything you can (a can of compressed air may do wonders). Shouldn't hurt anyway.

Have you tried running Memtest86?
 
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