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| System Name | Le Don |
|---|---|
| Processor | Core i 5 2500K Unlocked 3.3GHz HD Graphics 3000 |
| Motherboard | Asus P8P67 Pro B3 Revision Rev 3.1 |
| Cooling | Arctic Freezer Pro 7 Rev.2 |
| Memory | 8Gb Corsair DDR3 (CMZ8GX3M2B1600C9), 1600MHz, 1.5V, 9-9-9-24 |
| Video Card(s) | EVGA Signature 2 Super Clocked GTX680 2GB |
| Storage | Total 6 TB storage |
| Display(s) | LG 23" D2342P and LG 42" 42LF65 LCD (Wall mounted) |
| Case | Antec P180 Silver |
| Audio Device(s) | Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro |
| Power Supply | Corsair 850HX |
| Software | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, |
hello good people of tPU! i have a problem again which is kinda related to this this problem i had earlier in the month http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=75861
after having a few days with no broadband or telephone i was finally glad to be able to get online and do some fragging. i'd ordered Left 4 Dead and quickly got to installing it and playing it. the first time i launched it, went fine. but i couldn't quit it normally; the game froze and i had to switch off at the case's power button.
i switched it back on and everything booted up fine or as fine as i could get it - in any case it booted. a few hours later i decided to give L4D another go, it loaded up fine but once again the thing locked up after some minutes' play and had to switch off at the PC case power button again. this time though when i tried to boot up XP, i got some strange graphics artifacts on the load up screen before the blue welcome screen. it looks like small horizontal blue strips across the screen.
when i do get to the welcome screen the display is even more corrupt with it culminating in the screen frozen, if i wait i get a BSoD saying that a piece of hardware was caught in a loop. it's the nv4_disp thingy that's causing it.
before coming on here to get some help, i googled around to find out what might cause the BSoD; i've done a rollback of the driver, downloaded the latest nVidia drivers, i've gone back a restore point, and done last known good config, all of these still have the glitches on screen.
only when i go into safe mode do the glitches not appear which leads me to believe it might not be a hardware problem. part of me thinks it's L4D as this only happened after i installed it. and as i've prematurely stated in the other thread, the hanging on the welcome screen hasn't gone away, some days it might boot fine, others i'll need to go into safe mode and last known good, but that's by the by if i can get the glitches eradicated. sorry for the long post, i feel i have to explain everything fully.
i'm running XP 32bit with SP2, a QX6800 CPU, 2Gb RAM.
i'd appreciate any help you can give me, thanks
Update: it seems i may have posted this too soon. i've totally uninstalled my graphics driver and let it boot up normally, so far no glitches. my next thing is to install the latest drivers and go from there
after having a few days with no broadband or telephone i was finally glad to be able to get online and do some fragging. i'd ordered Left 4 Dead and quickly got to installing it and playing it. the first time i launched it, went fine. but i couldn't quit it normally; the game froze and i had to switch off at the case's power button.
i switched it back on and everything booted up fine or as fine as i could get it - in any case it booted. a few hours later i decided to give L4D another go, it loaded up fine but once again the thing locked up after some minutes' play and had to switch off at the PC case power button again. this time though when i tried to boot up XP, i got some strange graphics artifacts on the load up screen before the blue welcome screen. it looks like small horizontal blue strips across the screen.
when i do get to the welcome screen the display is even more corrupt with it culminating in the screen frozen, if i wait i get a BSoD saying that a piece of hardware was caught in a loop. it's the nv4_disp thingy that's causing it.
before coming on here to get some help, i googled around to find out what might cause the BSoD; i've done a rollback of the driver, downloaded the latest nVidia drivers, i've gone back a restore point, and done last known good config, all of these still have the glitches on screen.
only when i go into safe mode do the glitches not appear which leads me to believe it might not be a hardware problem. part of me thinks it's L4D as this only happened after i installed it. and as i've prematurely stated in the other thread, the hanging on the welcome screen hasn't gone away, some days it might boot fine, others i'll need to go into safe mode and last known good, but that's by the by if i can get the glitches eradicated. sorry for the long post, i feel i have to explain everything fully.
i'm running XP 32bit with SP2, a QX6800 CPU, 2Gb RAM.
i'd appreciate any help you can give me, thanks
Update: it seems i may have posted this too soon. i've totally uninstalled my graphics driver and let it boot up normally, so far no glitches. my next thing is to install the latest drivers and go from there
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