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Solve : Screen Corruption Then BSOD on reboot? |
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Answer» HELLO, Let me first apologize for the long winded explanation but more info is better right? It's all kind of a mess and am trying to sort it all out. When running certain programs (Borderlands and VLC so far) I have gotten a screen corruption when it looks like everything is bunching up on the top of the screen although its really just blurry and I cannot tell what program I am running. It seems to lock my computer and the only way for me to get out of it is to turn off the PSU. When I reboot, I usually get the Blue screen of death with code 0X0000007E followed by four others which change. I then reboot in safe mode, then reboot in normal mode and the system works fine until I try one of those programs listed above (usually Borderlands). My first thought was the video card but I am unsure and cannot shell out for another one if it is not necessary. Why I am a wee bit concerned its something other than the video card is, about a week ago, all of a sudden, my DVD room drive stopped working (STILL powered tho, could open and close it) and it was not listed in windows My Computer. I checked the Bios and it was listed. I went into regedit and deleted UpperFilters and LowerFilters and rebooted. No luck. I figured it was the drive itself and purchase a new one (old one was IDE, new one SATA) and installed it. After installing this new drive, I started getting the corruption and BSOD. Now, to make this worse, one day prior to the DVD ROM drive vanishing in Windows, I installed a few free programs recommended by Maximum PC and ran them. CPU-Z, Speccy, 7-zip, Teracopy, ccleaner, revo unistaller, slimdrivers, and file hippo. Specifically I am concerned about the cccleaner one which did a massive registry cleaning which I didn't back up prior to it (hit the NO button by accident before doing it, ugh). Also ran slim drivers and file hippo and updated LOADS of drivers and program updates (maybe 20 in all). But I didn't make note of all of them I updated. One was the GPU for Nvidia which i have since reverted back. Still no luck on the BSOD. I also tried to do a system restore about 5 times using different dates but that's not working either. I made sure it was enabled and the service was running. Yep. Also tried it in safe mode. Confirmed administrator. Still no luck restoring ANY prior date (furthest I went back was one week, prior to the free program installs). I have also run malwarebytes quick and full scan in safe mode and norton internet security suite scans, nothing came up. Checked video card temp - 64 degrees C. Now I am just plain confused as to where to start or what to do. My concern is that if I buy a new video card, the problem will still be there. Here are my specs: Nothing overclocked Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40 GHZ (running 36 C) Windows XP Pro SP3 32 bit Gigabyte EP45-UD3L motherboard 2 GB of DDR2 RAM Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX 512 MB (running 63 C) 300 GB Seagate HD SATA (running at 34 C) LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS95 Antec 700W PSU (maybe 750W , not sure how to find out more specifics on this without pulling it out, trashed the box, but replaced it last year) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Is that video card 63C at idle, or under load? Try doing a clean reinstall of the latest drivers. Your graphics card is an Nvidia - click here to download the driver package, and save it - don't run it yet. Go to Computer, Uninstall or change a program, then remove anything that says Nvidia by it, and reboot the PC. Now open the driver package you downloaded, select Custom install rather than Express or default, and check the box that says clean install. Let the drivers finish installing, then reboot the PC again. Just for future reference - I would avoid programs like slimdrivers in future as they often cause more problems than they solve.Calum, this was a head slapper for me. Doh! Your suggestion for a clean install did the trick. Thank you! I was concerned with so many potential variables and did a half-*** job with the video driver. PS. That was 63 idle. Quote from: murph1969 on June 10, 2013, 05:58:33 PM Calum, this was a head slapper for me. Doh! Your suggestion for a clean install did the trick. Thank you! I was concerned with so many potential variables and did a half-*** job with the video driver. No problem. 63C idle is pretty high for that video card though - MIGHT be worth blowing any DUST out of the heatsink and generally giving it a good going over. They usually idle around 35-40C. Temperatures under load are the important thing though, so if possible check what kind of temperature it gets to when you're playing a game or doing something else intensive - if it stays under 95C or thereabouts, nothing to worry about. |
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