Graphics Driver Crash

[CM-Sniper]

Hi there,

last week I began randomly getting "No Signal" errors on my monitor, and I had no idea why; these would come at random times including on startup when I reached the login screen for my user accounts, however, over the last few days it has begun happening when I am using graphically intensive software such as games, or my development software for my 3D work.

I should add that I have been running a dual-screen setup, and both monitors are fairly old, however, for the last 4 weeks they have been running fine. The strange thing now is that graphics driver only crashes, and the symptoms above only happen when connected to one of the particular monitors. If I run a single screen setup with my secondary monitor everything runs fine with no crashes. However, if I run my main monitor on its own in the same setup the same things happens every time I load anything graphically intensive.

Specs:

Corsair 600T White
Intel i7 2600K 3.40GHz
Asrock z68 Extreme3
Corsair XMS3 16Gb 1600MHz
Gainward GTX 570 Phantom with latest drivers as of yesterday.
Antec Kuhler 620
OCZ 120Gb SSD
Samsung F3 1TB
Samsung BD-ROM
Corsair TX 850W

Any suggestions? Is it the monitor or something graphics card related?

Thanks

 

[humbug]

Are those the 310.54 BETA drivers?

 

[CM-Sniper]

No, the ones I updated to yesterday were the 306.97 ones.

 

[Gregster]

Does event viewer show anything?

(click start and in search type: event viewer. Click it and look at custom views/administrative events)

 

[CM-Sniper]

Thanks for the reply gregster. I've loaded that up but theres nothing currently showing in the list. Should there be something particular in the list?

Edit: In fact it just took a while to load Ive got loads of things there now.

 

[CM-Sniper]

Just had this after a restart:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 2057

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 116
BCP1: FFFFFA800AB44010
BCP2: FFFFF880042EE56C
BCP3: 0000000000000000
BCP4: 000000000000000D
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\111412-26426-01.dmp
C:\Users\Kris\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-48703-0.sysdata.xml

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[humbug]

Have you tried running Memtest and / or hardware stress testing?

 

[MAK360]

Right click My computer - Properties - Advanced System settings - Advanced -
Under Startup and Recovery Click "Settings" - Under System Failure, Untick "Automatically Restart"

Edit: Sometimes its safer to let the system crash - especially if you leave it unattended for longer periods - The above will only stop it restarting.

You need to uninstall drivers and re-install them again since you started having problems when you updated drivers (Something went wrong). Do a sweep in safe mode if you must. You could use system restore also (50% chance it might fix it)

 

[Gregster]

If it only happens in games, I would be looking at your GPU as the culprit and would try a different driver (306.27 I think was the last WHQL before yours). If changing drivers does not solve the issue, I would look a little deeper. Temps on your CPU and GPU could be a reason. If these get to hot, that would cause system instability. Is your memory working correctly? Run memtest 86+

A couple of things to try there and hopefully one of them will fix the issue.