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My computer has taken to bluescreening fairly regularly and I can't figure
out why.
The bluescreen message is saying there is a problem with hardware or a
driver and Windows reckons its a problem with ram, power supply, main board
or cpu.
I'm running:
Vista home premium 64 bit
AMD Athalon 4600+ dual core processor (64-bit)
Alabtron Nvidia Geforce 8800 gpu
2gb ram
MSI mainboard with Nvidia 550 chipset
550W power supply
I've tested the power supply, graphics card and ram by swapping them out
with other parts known to work. With the power supply I've upgraded it twice,
and no dice.
I've lost count of the number of times I've gone back to scratch and
formatted C and re-installed windows, but again, no luck.
The bluescreens seem fairly random, but seem to prefer times when I'm
running video, either from the DVD or direct from the hard disk.
It has been suggested that I need to turn down the DMA setting from Ultra
DMA to just plain old DMA, but I can't find how to do that (it seems you can
either just have it on or off) and I can't see how that fixes bluescreens
when running video from the hard disk.
I've also tried updating drivers for the chipset and GPU (I've also last
night had to wind back the gpu driver to 100.65 to resolve what seems to be a
fairly common problem with the monitor not working).
None of this seems to make any difference. I'll also point out again that
while the bluescreen seems to like video files, it can and does come at any
time. The only time it's never turned up is when I'm installing Windows.
Does this sound familiar to anyone. Any suggestions?
out why.
The bluescreen message is saying there is a problem with hardware or a
driver and Windows reckons its a problem with ram, power supply, main board
or cpu.
I'm running:
Vista home premium 64 bit
AMD Athalon 4600+ dual core processor (64-bit)
Alabtron Nvidia Geforce 8800 gpu
2gb ram
MSI mainboard with Nvidia 550 chipset
550W power supply
I've tested the power supply, graphics card and ram by swapping them out
with other parts known to work. With the power supply I've upgraded it twice,
and no dice.
I've lost count of the number of times I've gone back to scratch and
formatted C and re-installed windows, but again, no luck.
The bluescreens seem fairly random, but seem to prefer times when I'm
running video, either from the DVD or direct from the hard disk.
It has been suggested that I need to turn down the DMA setting from Ultra
DMA to just plain old DMA, but I can't find how to do that (it seems you can
either just have it on or off) and I can't see how that fixes bluescreens
when running video from the hard disk.
I've also tried updating drivers for the chipset and GPU (I've also last
night had to wind back the gpu driver to 100.65 to resolve what seems to be a
fairly common problem with the monitor not working).
None of this seems to make any difference. I'll also point out again that
while the bluescreen seems to like video files, it can and does come at any
time. The only time it's never turned up is when I'm installing Windows.
Does this sound familiar to anyone. Any suggestions?