Curse

Lykath · Feb 09, 2007, 08:09 AM // 08:09

Ok so I've had my computer since the end of august, and it's always been great, runnin the latest games on max, never havin any slowdown, but recently, a wierd problem has been occuring not only in guild wars, but also counter strike, knights of the old republic....anyways, my buddy said it might be overheating, but why now? after all this time my card starts to overheat? my specs are

amd athlon 4600+ dual core
2 gigs ram
geforce 7900gt oc bfg sli 256mb
19 inch lcd

anyways, here is the problem guys

http://www.geocities.com/bardock72/gw024.jpg
http://www.geocities.com/bardock72/gw021.jpg

by the way, it only happens sometimes, ive tried turning up my fans, but it still happens, please help me!!!

ps:yes i have the latest nvidia drivers

Lord Sojar · Feb 09, 2007, 10:12 AM // 10:12

Upper cell fracture, probably in the dispatch center, which is corrupting your shaders. Once that shader instruction misses a crossbar passover, its game over for the instruction set. Quite simply, your card either got an over volt, or overheated as your friend said. BFG will cover it. Give them a call or go to their website and request an RMA and get a new card.

For the future, insure that your power supply amperages are stable and that the motherboard is correctly distributing the voltages (you BIOS will have those settings) Also, don't over do overclocks to cards. Newer GPUs are already pushed quite hard at their base of operations. Without sufficient cooling, you are asking for this type of thing (if that was the case). Good luck.

MegaMouse · Feb 09, 2007, 08:27 PM // 20:27

Rajha is right sounds like your video card has or is going to bite the dust. Befroe you upgrade to the new card (or get teh new one from BFG) upgrade your power supply to one that has no less than 50 watts more than the minimum that the video card calls for. Enermax makes some real good ones that are rather low priced and so does antec. Do not settle for a lower priced generic PSU as they have a tendicy to be over rated by the manufacturer.

Mega Mouse

j_unit66 · Feb 10, 2007, 09:00 PM // 21:00

u said why would it overheat now? dust is why it could over heat now and not earlier.

ElinoraNeSangre · Feb 11, 2007, 12:04 AM // 00:04

It also may have been overheating previously but handling it okay, and now there's been some damage that's causing the problem to be worse. I second the vote on your power supply - this causes so many problems in computers.