Hi,
I am looking for a bit of advice. I bought the 8800 GTS 512mb card from here on release day and from then I have had problems every time I used my PC.
I didn't return it as I believed it was a driver issue and after waiting 4 months for Nvidia to update the driver I gave up, fully formatted the entire thing and installed some highly rated drivers on these very forums (I believe it was a link from one of the many links loadsamoney has posted).
The error in question is 3 similar but different errors, and it all happens in a particular cycle.
1. I turn the PC on and it hangs (usually within 10mins of first power on), forcing me to hard reset. (I then can use the PC for a bit until a random error happens).
2. BSOD - this one does not happen as often but is as above, happens early on first boot and restarts the PC letting me play again for a few hrs until another crash.
3. PC just restarts, no reason/error, it just restarts. Again can happen within first 10min of power on and after that it will work for a few hours only to crash again later.
It's not driver, It just cant be now. So where do I go from here? I know I can find this info myself but my reason for asking here is to try and get some help from people with experience from this.
Thanks
(a very frustrated and tired) Damonic
I am looking for a bit of advice. I bought the 8800 GTS 512mb card from here on release day and from then I have had problems every time I used my PC.
I didn't return it as I believed it was a driver issue and after waiting 4 months for Nvidia to update the driver I gave up, fully formatted the entire thing and installed some highly rated drivers on these very forums (I believe it was a link from one of the many links loadsamoney has posted).
The error in question is 3 similar but different errors, and it all happens in a particular cycle.
1. I turn the PC on and it hangs (usually within 10mins of first power on), forcing me to hard reset. (I then can use the PC for a bit until a random error happens).
2. BSOD - this one does not happen as often but is as above, happens early on first boot and restarts the PC letting me play again for a few hrs until another crash.
3. PC just restarts, no reason/error, it just restarts. Again can happen within first 10min of power on and after that it will work for a few hours only to crash again later.
It's not driver, It just cant be now. So where do I go from here? I know I can find this info myself but my reason for asking here is to try and get some help from people with experience from this.
Thanks
(a very frustrated and tired) Damonic