Annoying PC resets

Hudzy

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So for a while now I've been experiencing seemingly random resets of the PC and I can't figure out what it is or what to do. It does seem to only happen when I'm running a game. The game will freeze for a minute and either resume or the PC will blue screen.

The error report thing (thought I'd try it for once) says this...


Error type: Windows stop error (A message appears on a blue screen with error code information)

Solution available? Yes

What does this error mean? You received this message because a device driver installed on your computer caused the Windows operating system to stop unexpectedly. This type of error is referred to as a "stop error." A stop error requires you to restart your computer.

Cause: A video adapter device driver

Computer symptoms: A message appears on a blue screen with error code information:

STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER
- or -
STOP: 0x100000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER_M
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So that points to the video card, an Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX.

They then go on to suggest 3 courses of action. Update drivers, done. Manually reduce hardware acceleration, not done, seems like that would defeat the point of having it? Replace the card, no intention of doing.

I'm wondering maybe if it's anything to do with my processor, a 4400 dual core. I've noticed recently as well as the crashes that doing cpu intensive stuff like encoding a dvd brings the pc to a stutter. That never used to happen on a non-HT pentium 4 so I can't see why it should happen now.

Is it possible that's the problem and not my video card? Don't really like the prospect of having to replace either, but is there anything I should have for my processor, fixes, patches etc?
 
Temps seem ok, between 30 to 40 degrees on the graphics. System's watercooling so should be no problems with that.

Specs...

AMD X2 4400+
DFi LanParty NF4 Sli-DR
GeForce 7800 GTX
Maxtor 300 GB SATA drive
2 GB (4x 512) geil ultra pc4000

The rams all the same stuff so slots shouldn't be an issue. To be sure I put the older pair in the same colour slots anyway.

Just read in another thread about Maxtors and NF4. Something about NCQ... that likely to be causing this?

Last upgrade was a bulk upgrade last october, everything got changed apart from the maxtor and 1 gig of the ram. The crashes only seem to have recently become anything more than the occasional crash I've come to expect from PCs.
 
have you checked events manager? to see what error you are recieiving there?

what psu do u have?

what video card drivers are you using?

did you apply the dual core patch to your cpu? found @ amd site?
 
Not sure what events manager is.

The PSU is an Antec TruePower 2.0 550 W. It's powering the motherboard, the 7800, a pump, the sata drive, dvd drive, and a few smaller things.

Running the 91.33 drivers off of guru3d.

I don't remember if I did any dual core patch or not. I guess doing it again won't do any harm.

I'm looking at the top one here right?

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html
 
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events manager can be found when right clicking on my computer, manage, events manager, system...

there you can find system errors...

im not sure how much power is req by watercooling systems but that PSU should be adequate...
 
Few updates on this...

I'll try that events manager thing out. I've now applied the patch and it did nothing to help. What I have done is set the affinity of said games to one core only and so far it seems to have helped. Will need to continue testing that though. If that is the problem, odd that it reported it as a graphics problem no? Meh.

The graphics card was new with the cpu and motherboard, so I can't easily pin it to any one of those since none of them are compatible with my older parts.
 
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