System:
Pentium D 950. 3.4 dual core "Presler"
Asus P5ND2-SLI
Chipset: nForce4 SLI Intel Edition
Bios: ASUS P5ND2-SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 0701
Nvidia 9800 gtx+
RAM: DDR2, 2 gigs at 333.3 mhz (2 sticks, 1 gig each, part#: OCZ2SOE6671G)
Power Supply: oczgxs600, 600 watts, an OCZ GameXStream Power Supply.
Hello, this has been driving me crazy for over 4 weeks now. A while back I was surfing you tube and a bunch of artifacts came up on my screen, it froze and i had to re-boot my computer. When I did the screen with my motherboard's logo was messed up and so was the windows loading and log on screen. I booted into safe mode and the logo and loading screens were still messed up except when i logged into windows there were four 2cm wide bars going vertically up my screen. Everything next to these bars was perfectly fine but everything in the aforementioned area was blurred/messed up.
(Side not: I looked into the driver details of VGAsave and found that there was this in the conflicting device box:
Input output range 03B0-03BB used by
PIC Standard PCI to PCI bridge
Input output range 03C0-03DF used by
PIC Standard PCI to PCI bridge
Memory Range 000A0000-000BFFFF used by
PCI Standard PCI to PCI bridge
I thought that maybe this was the reason the screen was messed up in safe mode but when the 9800gtx+ artifacted there were no conflicting device errors. Thought I would include this anyway as it might be connected.)
So I uninstalled nvidia, all the software that came with it and the drivers for the device and restarted. This seems to do the trick sometimes and when I load with a clean mobo screen I get out of safe mode, install my gpu and everything is back to normal. In trying to prevent this from happening again i run registry scans, spy bot and avast but never the less the computer still freezes up with artifacts on the screen, sometimes after 2 weeks and sometimes after 2 days.
I read around and aside from the possibility that the gpu might be faulty (fried RAM i believe was what a lot of people were having trouble with) i learned that it could also be the power supply's fault. I looked up the voltages of the psu in speedy fan and found that the 3.3 v rail is putting out 0 volts. The 5 v is putting out 4.95 v and the 12 is putting out 12.22 v. I am also getting a temperature reading of 73 c (which i know is not the gpu since i can cross check the temperature given to me by evga's software and it is most likely not the cpu as i just cleaned the heat sink and re-applied some thermal paste, even though i never saw temperatures that high 3 months ago when everything was working fine.) This same temperature reading jumps all the way to 127 c sometimes and just stays there, however when i feel the power supply and the air coming out of it it is not that hot. This same system has already burned out one power supply but when it did you could smell it in the air...
In addition, the computer just shut down today 3 times, once when i wasn't even using it. Could this also be pointing to the psu as the culprit? I am now running an nvidia 8600 gts perfectly fine (no shut-downs or artifacting), but maybe its because this gpu doesn't place nearly the amount of demand on the psu as the 9800 gts+.
Sorry for the long post, I hope I provided enough information about the problem. Thank you for your time!
Pentium D 950. 3.4 dual core "Presler"
Asus P5ND2-SLI
Chipset: nForce4 SLI Intel Edition
Bios: ASUS P5ND2-SLI ACPI BIOS Revision 0701
Nvidia 9800 gtx+
RAM: DDR2, 2 gigs at 333.3 mhz (2 sticks, 1 gig each, part#: OCZ2SOE6671G)
Power Supply: oczgxs600, 600 watts, an OCZ GameXStream Power Supply.
Hello, this has been driving me crazy for over 4 weeks now. A while back I was surfing you tube and a bunch of artifacts came up on my screen, it froze and i had to re-boot my computer. When I did the screen with my motherboard's logo was messed up and so was the windows loading and log on screen. I booted into safe mode and the logo and loading screens were still messed up except when i logged into windows there were four 2cm wide bars going vertically up my screen. Everything next to these bars was perfectly fine but everything in the aforementioned area was blurred/messed up.
(Side not: I looked into the driver details of VGAsave and found that there was this in the conflicting device box:
Input output range 03B0-03BB used by
PIC Standard PCI to PCI bridge
Input output range 03C0-03DF used by
PIC Standard PCI to PCI bridge
Memory Range 000A0000-000BFFFF used by
PCI Standard PCI to PCI bridge
I thought that maybe this was the reason the screen was messed up in safe mode but when the 9800gtx+ artifacted there were no conflicting device errors. Thought I would include this anyway as it might be connected.)
So I uninstalled nvidia, all the software that came with it and the drivers for the device and restarted. This seems to do the trick sometimes and when I load with a clean mobo screen I get out of safe mode, install my gpu and everything is back to normal. In trying to prevent this from happening again i run registry scans, spy bot and avast but never the less the computer still freezes up with artifacts on the screen, sometimes after 2 weeks and sometimes after 2 days.
I read around and aside from the possibility that the gpu might be faulty (fried RAM i believe was what a lot of people were having trouble with) i learned that it could also be the power supply's fault. I looked up the voltages of the psu in speedy fan and found that the 3.3 v rail is putting out 0 volts. The 5 v is putting out 4.95 v and the 12 is putting out 12.22 v. I am also getting a temperature reading of 73 c (which i know is not the gpu since i can cross check the temperature given to me by evga's software and it is most likely not the cpu as i just cleaned the heat sink and re-applied some thermal paste, even though i never saw temperatures that high 3 months ago when everything was working fine.) This same temperature reading jumps all the way to 127 c sometimes and just stays there, however when i feel the power supply and the air coming out of it it is not that hot. This same system has already burned out one power supply but when it did you could smell it in the air...
In addition, the computer just shut down today 3 times, once when i wasn't even using it. Could this also be pointing to the psu as the culprit? I am now running an nvidia 8600 gts perfectly fine (no shut-downs or artifacting), but maybe its because this gpu doesn't place nearly the amount of demand on the psu as the 9800 gts+.
Sorry for the long post, I hope I provided enough information about the problem. Thank you for your time!