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can the video decoder on a GPU die?

tomos

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short story, tonight i was watching a dvd on my pc when it crashed due to nv4_disp (according to XPs BSOD)

when i went back to windows all was fine apart from playing dvds. it used a load of CPU cycles for this. checked and powerdvd is no longer using DXVA for decoding.

checked using powerdvds checker and all shows up as N/A for all its tests.

removed those drivers and installed the latest forcewares and same thing. dvd playback caused CPU usage to spike like crazy.

i've checked my display properties and fullhardware acceleration is enabled as well as enable write combing.

short of reinstalling windows entirely, is there anything else to try?

also, if i reinstall XP and its still the same - does that mean a dodgy graphics card?
 
boot into safe mode, use driver cleaner to remove the drivers, clean the .cab file with driver cleaner also, reboot, reinstall drivers, then if you have the same issue, you can be sure its hardware and not some stuck remnants of your previous drivers.
 
hmm so if after that its still the same you would think its the hardware?

couldnt it still be some freaky windows thing?
 
tomos said:
hmm so if after that its still the same you would think its the hardware?

couldnt it still be some freaky windows thing?
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potentially, try what i suggested, if that doesnt work and if no one else has anything to add that helps, try googling the problem before you go to the drastic measure of wiping your drive.
 
Have you tested the rest of your system aswell? I had the same BSOD a while back on some games tried all the above no change, anyway ran memtest and found a couple of errors. In the end I had to change the command rate to T2 But fixed the problem :)
 
i have no idea what happened here.

after this i went away on holiday till a few days ago and now everything is working fine???? could the card have just been overheating and just needed a 3 week cooldown or something?

the pc wasnt even shut down over my holiday. i left it on to encode etc. i came back - didnt even reboot - played a video and all was fine. :confused:

grrr, pcs are weird
 
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