Video card freezing up need help!!

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musoumaster

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Whenever I play computer games or watch movies, my screen would freeze up. :( I've tried adding more cooling fans, but the problem still occur. I 've also tried changing the video driver but it still occur. Any suggestions?

Also I tried checking the temperature of computer using speedfan. Speedfan shows a system temperature of 90 C. I've heard that this is the air inside the case, but when I put my hand inside it doesn't feel like 90C. Anyone know what this means? Is it possible that the censor on mobo is malfunctioning?

Video card: Geforce GTS 250
Mobo: EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW
CPU: Intel Core Quad Q8200
PSU: Corsair 750W
Ram: 4GB
OS: XP Professional

I've had this problem for a while, so any help appreciated :)
 
Speedfan's rather unreliable. I'd use your BIOS, software that came with your board, or PC Wizard. All should be much more accurate than Speedfan. Besides, the temps aren't of the ambient air in the case, they are of specific chips. Try touching a heatsink and beleive me, it'll be MUCH warmer than the surrounding air :P (well, you really shouldn't while it's running ^^; )

I'd try another power supply if you have one available. That one should pump out enough juice, but there's the possibility it's bad. Or if you could try the GPU in another computer, that's worth a shot too.
 
musoumaster said:
Whenever I play computer games or watch movies, my screen would freeze up. :( I've tried adding more cooling fans, but the problem still occur. I 've also tried changing the video driver but it still occur. Any suggestions?
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Which drivers have you tried exactly?
 
The_Other_One said:
Speedfan's rather unreliable. I'd use your BIOS, software that came with your board, or PC Wizard. All should be much more accurate than Speedfan. Besides, the temps aren't of the ambient air in the case, they are of specific chips. Try touching a heatsink and beleive me, it'll be MUCH warmer than the surrounding air :P (well, you really shouldn't while it's running ^^; )

I'd try another power supply if you have one available. That one should pump out enough juice, but there's the possibility it's bad. Or if you could try the GPU in another computer, that's worth a shot too.
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I also tried NVDIA system monitor it also gives me a high temperature (system temp) of (87 C) The problem is that this is the only desktop I have.
 
I am curious what is your GPU temps? Also is your card EVGA? If you leave the side off your case with a fan blowing into it...temps change at all?

If so download EVGA Precision tool it is for overclocking BUT it has a accurate temperature monitor too.
 
Twist86 said:
I am curious what is your GPU temps? Also is your card EVGA? If you leave the side off your case with a fan blowing into it...temps change at all?

If so download EVGA Precision tool it is for overclocking BUT it has a accurate temperature monitor too.
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Currently my GPU is 50C and I am just browsing with firefox and msn. If I play games it usually go higher which end up freezing. My card is XFX not EVGA. Yes that is what I am doing now (the side is off with a fan blowing into it...) temp is 50 C.
 
Sounds to me like your card is stuck on fan speed.


One thing to do is download evga precision tool its not locked so it should work with ALL nvidia based cards. (http://www.evga.com/precision/) you will have to sign up however for some reason.

Then while you watch your fan speed run this program rthdribl_1_2 you can download it here - http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/ it is a GPU stress test simply put. Make sure to full screen it then hit 8 to make it run full throttle.

If your fan speed doesn't go up on auto and you freeze (make sure to watch fan speed and temps before it happens)
then you will need to download rivatuner or manually turn your fan speeds up.


I had similiar issues once which was my 8800GT stuck @ 20% fan speed causing my issues.
Rivatuner is a nice tool if you set up fan profiles based off temps. The only snag is you gotta force driver detection on drivers older then 182.50 untill 2.25 comes out (not hard to do I can show you)
 
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Twist86 said:
Sounds to me like your card is stuck on fan speed.


One thing to do is download evga precision tool its not locked so it should work with ALL nvidia based cards. (http://www.evga.com/precision/) you will have to sign up however for some reason.

Then while you watch your fan speed run this program rthdribl_1_2 you can download it here - http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/ it is a GPU stress test simply put. Make sure to full screen it then hit 8 to make it run full throttle.

If your fan speed doesn't go up on auto and you freeze (make sure to watch fan speed and temps before it happens)
then you will need to download rivatuner or manually turn your fan speeds up.


I had similiar issues once which was my 8800GT stuck @ 20% fan speed causing my issues.
Rivatuner is a nice tool if you set up fan profiles based off temps. The only snag is you gotta force driver detection on drivers older then 182.50 untill 2.25 comes out (not hard to do I can show you)
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Well I downloaded evga precision and it already showed fan speed at 100%. Then I ran the program rthdribl_1_2, the temp of GPU went from 50C and stayed at 75C (start to lag at 70C), but it did not freeze. When I close rthdribl_1_2 it went to 55C, which I think is still high.
 
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musoumaster said:
Well I downloaded evga precision and it already showed fan speed at 100%. Then I ran the program rthdribl_1_2, the temp of GPU went from 50C and stayed at 75C (start to lag at 70C), but it did not freeze. When I close rthdribl_1_2 it went to 55C, which I think is still high.
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also, I got the video card 3 months ago... not sure if this will help
 
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