VPU error?

SHOguy91 · 12-15-2007, 02:22 PM

Yesterday I decided to bring my comp (the one in sig) over to my friends house. So I logged of WoW, disconnected it and brought it over to his place. Hooked it all up and fired up WoW again a few minutes in the game freezes, screen goes black then the game pops back up and a VPU recovery error pops up. I checked card temps and they were at 54C at max load. Which should be fine.

So I played for a bit more and it happened again and again, I closed WoW and was trying to figure it out. Then it started happening more and more frequently, in the end it was happening every 10 seconds. I decided to call it quits for the day haul the comp home and check it out.

So I leave come home hook it up, going on 7 hours now no black screen, no falter in anything... I just don't get it, his house was quiet a bit hotter than mine. But I've ran this comp with no case fans on for 2 weeks straight and not had a problem. And I had all case fans up and running at his place, the front is a 160mm, 2x 1200mm on the side, and a 120mm in the back. So it has plenty of ventilation, all the cords are hidden out of airflow way also. Anyone got any ideas?

SHOguy91 · 12-18-2007, 04:50 PM

bump, no one has experienced this?

fortyways · 12-18-2007, 07:50 PM

Did you not use a surge protector?

12-15-2007, 02:22 PM	#1 (permalink)
SHOguy91 Bronze Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 57	VPU error? Yesterday I decided to bring my comp (the one in sig) over to my friends house. So I logged of WoW, disconnected it and brought it over to his place. Hooked it all up and fired up WoW again a few minutes in the game freezes, screen goes black then the game pops back up and a VPU recovery error pops up. I checked card temps and they were at 54C at max load. Which should be fine. So I played for a bit more and it happened again and again, I closed WoW and was trying to figure it out. Then it started happening more and more frequently, in the end it was happening every 10 seconds. I decided to call it quits for the day haul the comp home and check it out. So I leave come home hook it up, going on 7 hours now no black screen, no falter in anything... I just don't get it, his house was quiet a bit hotter than mine. But I've ran this comp with no case fans on for 2 weeks straight and not had a problem. And I had all case fans up and running at his place, the front is a 160mm, 2x 1200mm on the side, and a 120mm in the back. So it has plenty of ventilation, all the cords are hidden out of airflow way also. Anyone got any ideas? __________________ CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition @ 3.0GHz MB: MSI K9A2 CF RAM: G.Skill 4GB (4x 1GB) DDR2 800 HDD: WD Caviar SE 3GB/s 250GB ------WD Caviar SE 160GB GPU: HIS 3870 IceQ 3 OD: Pioneer DVD-RW OS: Vista Ultimate x64 Case: AeroCool AeroEngine 2 MONITOR: 37" Magnavox 720p

12-18-2007, 04:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
SHOguy91 Bronze Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 57	bump, no one has experienced this? __________________ CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition @ 3.0GHz MB: MSI K9A2 CF RAM: G.Skill 4GB (4x 1GB) DDR2 800 HDD: WD Caviar SE 3GB/s 250GB ------WD Caviar SE 160GB GPU: HIS 3870 IceQ 3 OD: Pioneer DVD-RW OS: Vista Ultimate x64 Case: AeroCool AeroEngine 2 MONITOR: 37" Magnavox 720p

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12-18-2007, 07:50 PM	#3 (permalink)
fortyways banned Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,134	Did you not use a surge protector?