WildFire Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 Video killed the radio star, and DCS A10 killed my video card. :doh: Last night on my server I experienced some kind of never seen before crash. Shutdown the whole computer. Took me a long time to run diagnostics and figure out I had a video card failure, and that it was not heat, or power dependent. Probably a ramdac or another memory chip problem as it only crashed after I tried to use a bit(128Mb+) of video memory. So Ive downupgraded to a 560 Ti SC. Also getting a semi recurrent "machine check exception" bsod, which usually means a driver is locking or there is an imminent hardware failure. Ram looks good, HDD's are solid, cpu flew through diagnostics but I have yet to find a way to test the mobo and the PS, Im not about to go buy a dmm so im kinda screwed there. (if anyone knows of available software to monitor voltages, and write to dump files give me a heads up please..) Im not attributing this to a game fault, as I feel it was a video card failure, and had relatively nothing to do with the software in address. Im just making this post in case others have a random crash and have to, like me, revert back to safe mode and go into super gopher troubleshooting mode... Ive had video card failures before but usually it wipes out the GPU. This was new. See you all back in the servers... Ill post back here later after Ive seen the performance of the sim with the 560, for any of you looking to upgrade to the series..
Depth Posted June 13, 2011 Posted June 13, 2011 OCCT can test your PSU but it may seriously screw up other components if it's actually faulty. How do other games behave? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
WildFire Posted June 14, 2011 Author Posted June 14, 2011 I'll look into it thanks. Wouldnt know havent played much besides this. And I played last night, Im not quite sure which was better my 470 or my 560. Both look beautiful, full high settings, everything on, high vis, full clutter, mirrors.... My girl was giving me grief for spending the money... I made her play it today.. lol... She was like wow, I think im sick..... *shes never used a trackir....
Nu-NRG Posted June 14, 2011 Posted June 14, 2011 If you are getting BSOD, maybe you can disable reboot on BSOD. That way you can get some more info. Then there is a program named Blue Screen View and it is free. We use it here at work. Link: http://download.cnet.com/BlueScreenView/3000-2094_4-10965136.html All you have to do is feed it the .dmp file after you got bsod. Aviate - Navigate - Communicate
WildFire Posted June 15, 2011 Author Posted June 15, 2011 yeah ive already done some heavy testing on it, the bsod tells me nothing because the failure happens in such a fashion that it locks up the cpu before it can even generate a .dmp. I can troubleshoot driver and .dmp files fairly easily thanks to this guide> http://clintboessen.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-analyze-dump-file.html an invaluable guide for debug... but yeah havent got it in a few days, perhaps some left over bad code or the memory or bios/cpu flag wasnt clearing after the video card when feet up on me... Who knows.
213 Posted June 15, 2011 Posted June 15, 2011 this happens with nvidia gpu all the time. videoram failure forcing you to buy a new card. personally, i think it's a fault they "forgot" to fix so you can hurry up and buy their cards again.
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