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Is My Graphics Card Knackered?

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Hi all, been having a bit of trouble with me PC of late. Noticed a while back that when playing CODUO when the maps changed on the server I would get a stuttering sound affect sometimes my sound would go silent and other times it would be fine. IF it went silent I just went into the sound options and reset it and everything was fine till the next map? I put this down to Creative sound drivers :rolleyes:

Since then (few months ltr) I have noticed that when I have been playing for a few hours CODUO I exit the game and everything seems fine untill I open "My Computer" then either my PC pauses for a long time or just restarts :mad: I have reformatted my PC with a fresh install of WinXP and graphic/sound drivers, also virus checked my system and nothing :confused:

I also took out my Graphics card and gave the fan a good clean and then reset it making sure it was firmly in the PCI-E slot, also did the same with the sound card.

Now last night I was playing CODUO again, when I exited the game I wanted to watch a DVD movie. So I placed the disc in my drive and closed it then my PC just restarted :mad:

As it got into windows after the restart I got the famous blue screen:

The problem seems to be caused by the following file: nv4_disp

The device driver got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly.


I take it then this means my Graphics card is playing up? although I don't get any problems while playing any games :confused:

System:
Windows XP Professional SP2 and latest updates.
Motherboard Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe BIOS 1103 nForce4 AMD X16 Version: 6.86
Enermax Noisetaker 600W
CPU AMD Opteron 146 (running at 2.7)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
Memory Corsair CMX1024-3500LLPRO 2GB
BFG GeForce 7800 GTX OC 256MB ForceWare V93.71
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (SBAX_WBUP2_LB_2_09_0016)
Western Digital Raptor 150GB
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB
Western Digital Caviar 250GB 2500KS
BENQ DVD LS DW1655
Lite On DVD 16P9S

Temps: Idle
Motherboard 31
CPU 42
GPU 38
 
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Hi Pieman, I have tried the soundcard in another slot and it didnt seem to make any diff. I have nero and Alcohol installed in my system. I will try an older driver see if that makes any difference. Do you think its worth trying the onboard sound?
 
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