nVidia drivers crashing

[Nikumba]

Have a 285GTX

Just recently when playing certain games, I will get the lovely error Kernel mode drive has stopped, recovering blah blah

Now I have tried the latest nvidia WQHL and beta drives but it makes no difference

PC Spec

E6400 @ stock
GTX 285OC2
4 Gb [4 x 1Gb]
2 raptor drives
1 1.5tb samsung drive
Corsair HX520
DVD burner

Running Windows 7 Pro x64

Anyone have any ideas on this?

Kimbie

 

[mit1]

I would under-clock the card to standard clock speeds using MSI Afterburner or Rivatuner just to rule out the OC, There seems to be a lot of OC'd cards running into trouble.

 

[Nikumba]

I will give that a go

 

[Nikumba]

Well that didnt seem to make any difference

 

[Rroff]

What RAM speed are you running and what make is the motherboard?

Is this a BFG card?

 

[Skilid]

PSU not struggling? Seems a little low considering how much you have in your machine.

 

[Nikumba]

PC2 6400 Gigabyte DS3P

Well I have been running this card for months with no problem, this problem has only cropped up in the last week or so.

Its a BFG card

Kimbie

 

[Rroff]

Sounds like another BFG card on the way out

 

[Nikumba]

Sounds like another BFG card on the way out

Doesn't want to be its barely 3 months old

 

[rhys216]

Doesn't want to be its barely 3 months old

Larger GPU die areas do tend to suffer a higher failure rate.

Anyway look on the bright side, it will probably take a while to find you a replacement if you RMA it, so you may get a fermi instead.

 

[Rroff]

Try furmark should help to narrow down whats causing the problem.

I would start with Intel Burn Test - 20 passes - to make sure the rest of the system is stable
Then Memtest86+ to make sure the RAM is ok

If it passes those 2 ok then move onto testing with furmark.