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8800 GTS blue screen problem

Hayley-K

Hayley-K

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I tried posting this in the software section nobody seemed to have any ideas so I wondered if you guys could help?

Since getting my GTS I keep getting blue screens and after some research found that the blue screens are Nvidia related. Nvcpl.dll and and error about memeory being "not less or equal"

Tried using driver cleaner and installing the Guru3D drivers instead but still get the problem. It mainly happens on start up/shut down or loading applications.

I was wondering if any of you have had the same problems and how you solved them Im just a bit reluctant to do a new windows install if that wont sort it out.

Thanks,

Hayley
 
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Hmm, well that is a bit odd.

Have you tried all the latest drivers and the like? It doesn't sound like it is overheating or anything of that nature.

If you have tried the drivers, sorry its just the most obvious port of call. Head over to Nvidia and grab the latest ones for the 8800 series.

BSOD's are tricky things really. Try updating other drivers too for sound card and especially the motherboard ones, and making sure the latest Direct X is installed.

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One more thing, I could well be wrong here, but you may want to check the AMPS on the PSU you have. Be sure that you have a decent ampage, as the 8800 series draws lets of juice. If it were that though, I imagine the crashes would happen in games more than at startup and so forth, so is probably software related.

Update all drivers basically, DirectX, and let us know if that helps.
 
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IRQL not equal or less is a memory address problem, which can be caused by drivers.

I would make sure you have tried a few graphics drivers and make sure you have stable chipset drivers installed too.

If you still have problems, have you ran Windows memtest on your system ram? Memtest86 in its own bootable enviroment seems to miss things.

The fact your system is only unstable at certain times (application load up and shutdown) doesn't really point to a memory problem as this usually causes trouble all over the place. Worth a try.
 
Mekrel said:
IRQL not equal or less is a memory address problem, which can be caused by drivers.

I would make sure you have tried a few graphics drivers and make sure you have stable chipset drivers installed too.

If you still have problems, have you ran Windows memtest on your system ram? Memtest86 in its own bootable enviroment seems to miss things.
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I was thinking that, thing is though Hayley mentioned that "having got my 8800 gts" sounding like the OP had a card without the problem before.

It could be the card that is at fault, but as said in my previous post, and in yours, drivers are the best bet. Especially GPU and M/B ones :)
 
Ahh missed that :)

As Dark_Angel said, try more than a few sets of drivers because you could have been unlucky and installed two dodgy sets.

I would still memtest though, I've seen that error too many times on unstable RAM.
 
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Ahh missed that :)

As Dark_Angel said, try more than a few sets of drivers because you could have been unlucky and installed two dodgy sets.

I would still memtest though, I've seen that error too many times on unstable RAM.
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To ammend to what I was saying earlier, I HATE BSOD's. They are perhaps the most unhelpful error message in the world, because half the time they can be caused by a million things. Ram is usually a cause though, or software.
 
Dark_Angel said:
.BSOD's are tricky things really. Try updating other drivers too for sound card and especially the motherboard ones, and making sure the latest Direct X is installed.
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I flashed my mobo but will double chcek to see if their are new sound drivers but im preety sure I have recet ones. Surely my PSU has enough juice it only a GTS. My friend has the GTX and he had terrible problems with his PSU but I didn't think the GTS was so power hungry?

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If you still have problems, have you ran Windows memtest on your system ram? Memtest86 in its own bootable enviroment seems to miss things
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I tightened up th ram timings so I will do a mem test. Its stable in orthos and runs 3dmark fine tho.
 
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When I said motherboard drivers, I meant like for example the Nforce drivers or whatever, I didnt mean the BIoS :) (probably read your post wrong).

Be certain to grab the latest Nvidia drivers though.

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As for the PSU, remember watts mean little, it is amps on the PSU rails. Truthfully I doubt it will be that which is causing the problems though :)

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Doing a bit of random googling, it seems that the 8800GTS requires about 26AMPS from the PSU. Check your PSU has around that number, on the 12V+ rail.
 
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Dark_Angel said:
I was thinking that, thing is though Hayley mentioned that "having got my 8800 gts" sounding like the OP had a card without the problem before.
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Before I had a 7900GTO and ran fine with no problems at all, its just annoying as you will be wanting to do something simple and wham a blue screen.

I will try doing a mem test and have a play with ram timings tomorrow, im on my laptop now and have to get up at 7.30 for work tomorrow an nice 9 hour shift :( !

Thanks for allyour help I keep yu posted on everything that happens.
 
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Hiper Type-R 580w will power the GTS fine so i can't see that being the problem, as those PSU's are Crossfire certified for 2x x1950 XTX's, and they will use a lot more power than a single GTS. :)

EDIT: You tried that, wheres me specs. :p
 
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Hayley-K said:
Before I had a 7900GTO and ran fine with no problems at all, its justannoying as you will be wanting to do somthing simpla and wham a blue screen.

I will try doing a mem test and have a play with ram timings tomorrow, imon my laptop now and have to get up at 7.30 for work tomorrow an nice 9 hour shift :( !

Thanks for allyour help I keep yu posted on everything that happens.
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Please do so, try the mem test, try updating your direct X, motherboard drivers (the Nforce drivers) and getting the latest Nvidia drivers for your GTS (I think they are 100 or something).
 
Look like a case of trial and error then to see what sorts it. I really must get some sleep or people will be drowning as I fall asleep in that big high lifeguard chair tomorrow!! :p
 
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Right OK im home form work now been waiting to do this all day, im gunna reinstall drivers and run a mem test and see what happens, I will keep you guys updated.
 
Dark_Angel said:
Doing a bit of random googling, it seems that the 8800GTS requires about 26AMPS from the PSU. Check your PSU has around that number, on the 12V+ rail.
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Checked my manual and it says 20AMPS sothats round bout right, my mem teast has found no errors argh nightmare. But touch wood I've not had any bluescreens yet!!

EDIT: Now reinstalled drivers it blue screened uninstalling the Nforce 4 ones but since I used driver cleaner and reinstalled evertything including the x-fi ones all has been good. Just ran 3Dmark05 and got a higher score than before and the card is not even overclocked, may leave the card how it is and see if the rig is more stable now.
 
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I had blue screen problems too but I think it was my power supply not being upto the job, I got a new one then reinstalled the drivers. I still get the occasional BSOD but nothing like before, hope its all OK now
 
I had pretty much the exact same problem after changing drivers on my GTS. Tried everything i could to solve the prob, un-installed and re-installed all drivers for everything but couldn't shake the problem. Sorry to say that i had to do a clean install, totally wipe my pc. I managed to get into windows long enough to back up everything i needed but after the wipe i have been absolutely problem free.
 
Thats just what im trying to avoid doing but if this hasn't sorted it then I'm afraid its gunna have to happen. I have a partition with all my important stuff on so its just programme files that will get wiped. I find I always forget to install a programme and then have deleted the executable etc :(
 
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