strange situation

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i have vista 64, 163.11 drivers, spec in sig.

i have a problem that every now and then (random) my computer will stop sending stuff to my screen, so my screen will go into sleep mode, my keyboard wont respond (meaning pushing num lock wont light up the led) and i have to manually restart.

this is a very odd situation, and i cant work out whats wrong.

anybody heard of this issue before?

ags
 
Sounds like it could be a driver problem. Id try using it in safe mode for a while and see what happens then.
 
ok, i stuck in my xp raptor, slightly different problem, on load up from boot, it will sometimes freeze and become un responsive to any mouse or keyboard touch.

ags
 
ok, back from a DJing session, turned on, booted up fine, but has anyone heard of this? as im slightly concerned if it might be hardware related.

ags

also, would it be worth running driver sweeper in btoh xp and vista?
 
might be a psu or ram or cpu issue, esp if overclocking. stick everying at stock for a few days to see it if helps. if it does, then its time to break out the spare psu, memtest orthos and so on.
 
ran memtest, nothing wrong there, cpu at stock, same problem, have been running orthos for ages, no peoblems, ran ati tool, no artifacts. EVERYTHING set to default in bios, still persists.

now, ive got one last thing to try, as it seems when it does freeze on xp desktop after boot, it looks like its loading the tray icon for nvidia. when it does work and go load as normal, it goes into the state of 'unused' in system tray... if you get what i mean, think this could be the problem? loading up something iffy when first booting?

ags
 
The nVidia system tray software caused me a similar problem a while back on another machine.

It would randomly hang on logon. I solved it by disabling the process (can't remember exactly what it was called) in msconfig and deleting the file.

Probably not a lot of help to you, but it might be worth looking into. Try a different driver version maybe?

Jon
 
disabled 2 things, one of which i wasnt too sure about and the other is the nv sys tray

'dumprep 0-k' ..... god knows what this is lol, probably a virus
'NvMcTray' ... tray startup for nvidia, should solve the problem.

restarted after disabling it, and no probs, ill try again now after having a quick session on WiC... such a good game :D

ags
 
restarted, seems fine lol... ill keep you updated, could be a bug, if it doesnt persist, ill report it to NV, let them know it might be a possible bug, im sure they will love to kno of another......

ags
 
I assume you've tried uninstalling and driver cleaning all nvidia drivers in safe mode then reinstalling?

dumpprep just appears randomly in msconfig. I think it's if you crash windows automatically creates a dump file and tries to get info out of it for the microsoft report thing.
 
Dumprep is XP's built in fault logging service. Doesn't really matter if you disable it, but it's not a virus.

Used in connection with memory dumps - you can disable these by - right clicking on My Computer, selecting Properties and then the Advanced tab. Click on the Settings button in 'Startup and Recovery'. In the bottom pane - under 'Write debugging information' - click on the down arrow and then select 'None' - OK your way out.
Click to expand...

Anyway, fingers crossed!

Jon
 
ty geforce, brought meaning to the saying "learn something new everyday"

and yea darg, tried it about 50 times over 2 days lol, both in and out of safe mode, complete driver clean up and still nothing, i think a good format would rid me of my troubles, but i cant be bothered lol

ags

EDIT: it only happened on occasion btw, sometimes in a row. but seems fine now i disabled the service.
 
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