a8n sli asus goes blue minidump screen then reboots.

[scruffles]

after I finish playing unreal and exit, the window goes blue (i've been told this is BSOD) and has numbers and says soemthing about dumping. Also the Internet explorer gets bugged alot. Just freezes and goes not responding.

any suggestions as to what this is?


thanks, scruff

 

[scruffles]

bumpidy

 

[imported_Xan]

I have the same problem with ut2k4. About 80-90% of the time I exit the game it gets a BSOD and reboots. Not sure why. I haven't had any other problems with the board. I don't use IE though.

 

[jhbodle]

I had random freezes with IE until I uninstalled that nVidia Firewall Management software - it played havoc with my machine.

 

[imported_slippy]

I've had the same thing with the game Uru: ages beyond myst which came with my graphics card. I noticed however that it only happened when I quit the game when playing full screen. If I quit with a screen that was windowed, then I wouldn't get the bsod and everything seemed fine.

Of course games look like crap when shrunk into a window. On the other hand, it only happened to me with Uru. My other games seem fine. I think I'll test more of the demo discs with my system and see if there are any other games this does this on. The deus ex demo closed from full screen without incident.

I'm really thinking this is more of a windows xp problem... though maybe it has something to do with the buffer overun protection of our athlon 64s.

 

[mikepro]

There is a patch for UT2k4 that will probably fix it, but the problem is probably caused by the DEP (data execution prevention) "feature" of XP.

As soon as I turned it off, I no longer got the crash after UT2k4, Prince of Persia, and many other games.

Here is how to do it: (You can specify specific programs to turn it off for, or turn it off for everything except core windows, which is what I did)

1. Click Start
2. Select Control Panel
3. Select System
4. Click the Advanced tab
5. In the Performance region select Settings
6. Click the Data Execute tab in the dialog box that opens
7. Select Turn on DEP for all programs and services except for those I select
8. Click Add.
9. The open dialog box will open. Browse and select your application.
10. Click Open
11. Click Apply
12. Click Ok
13. Reboot

 

[Tripp17]

Oh man.....lol.....ok guys, i think alot of people had this problem, first of all it has NOTHING to do with the motherboard. Its your graphic card and i didnt bother to read your posts, but ill bet its a series 6 geforce card....right? There are hacks and patches.....the easist way i got around this issue( happened to me too) was i went to 71.20 drivers and it never happened again, and i gained alittle performance too. Its as easy as changing your graphic driver period. Good luck, oh and um.....if i remember, i think all of the 60.xx series of drivers do this for the people it happens to. I got my fix from the tech guy over at atari....he told me the problem was with the driver and that 71.20 and up had fixed it. Good luck, and stop blamming that darn motherboard of yours for everything that goes wrong, it has enough trouble as it is!

NOTE: mikepro's way will work too, i just think its easiest to change the driver.

 

[ahurtt]

Tripp17, I tend to agree with you. . .based on the nature of the error messages I am getting when games are crashing on me and other issues from posts about bios problems, I think we just need some more mature drivers to come out for these systems. A lot of the time when I have had problems it has been related to my hard drive detection by the BIOS, or blue screens with messages like DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. Also, a lot of times when windows closes unresponsive programs, I can see that the error occurred in some file called something like nVxxxx.dll. . .clearly an nVidia driver. I have got my money on the bet that once nVidia gets off the dime and releases new ForceWare and nForce drivers, and ASUS figures out what they are doing with the BIOS, this system will be a rock. Where did you get the 71.20 drivers by the way? I'd like to try them out on my system.

Thanks!

 

[ahurtt]

That is a great suggestion mikepro, I will try this when I get home tonight. I had forgotten about that little hidden "feature." But it makes perfect sense. I bet this will fix a lot of crashes until some better drivers come out.

 

[tr1kstanc3]

It is definitely a geforce 6 driver issue. I have had no problems using the 61.82 whql driver with my 6800nu and athlon 64 but as soon as i tried another driver I would get BSOD's in Americas Army (unreal engine). I disabled DEP entirely on both my athlon 64 box and my pentium-m laptop (it would cause avi files to crash when launched... ghetto). The way I did it was I edited my boot.ini file found in C:\ with hidden files viewable. Change the /noexecute option to /execute and problem solved.

This is what my boot.ini looks like after editing it.


multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /execute=optin /fastdetect


good luck and have fun fragging =P

 

[michaeldorian]

Same thing happens to me but during world of warcraft or just when using windows.

 

[imported_Xan]

Thanks guys, I will try updating the drivers...one question though, is it possible to capture the BSOD? Might help with troubleshooting purposes.

 

[ahurtt]

Got a digital camera?? haha. Some time while your computer is up and running try going into the System Propertyies (right click MyComputer -> Properties) Go to the advanced tab and click the settings button in the Startup and Recovery region. Make sure you are writing an event to the system log and writing debug information to a log file so you can retrieve it later.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: mikepro
There is a patch for UT2k4 that will probably fix it, but the problem is probably caused by the DEP (data execution prevention) "feature" of XP.

As soon as I turned it off, I no longer got the crash after UT2k4, Prince of Persia, and many other games.

Here is how to do it: (You can specify specific programs to turn it off for, or turn it off for everything except core windows, which is what I did)

1. Click Start
2. Select Control Panel
3. Select System
4. Click the Advanced tab
5. In the Performance region select Settings
6. Click the Data Execute tab in the dialog box that opens
7. Select Turn on DEP for all programs and services except for those I select
8. Click Add.
9. The open dialog box will open. Browse and select your application.
10. Click Open
11. Click Apply
12. Click Ok
13. Reboot

damn i thought Nvidia would of fixed this DEP problem ages ago, i turned DEP off and its staying off, ive got plenty of protection against viri as it is, (XPSP2 nvidia firewall, mcafee virus scan enterprose 7.1 and behind the university's saftey things too.....no virus, no ad or spyware )

turn DEP off

go start ---> control panel----> system---->advanced------> (under start up and recovery) click settings-----> (under startup) click edit ----> change whatever comes after /NoExecute= to AlwaysOff

ie "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=AlwaysOff"

 

[imported_Xan]

Originally posted by: ahurtt
Got a digital camera?? haha. Some time while your computer is up and running try going into the System Propertyies (right click MyComputer -> Properties) Go to the advanced tab and click the settings button in the Startup and Recovery region. Make sure you are writing an event to the system log and writing debug information to a log file so you can retrieve it later.

Hehe I actually thought about having the camera ready to get a picture but it's only there for a second or so. I will try the other suggestion though

 

[P0pinjay]

Hey guys,
I've been getting BSOD's for a couple weeks now with my new setup but it doesn't happen after I exit games. At one point it happened consistently when I exited AIM and just the other day it happened when I tried to load a page on myspace. Most of the time it was just a brief flash of the blue screen so I wasn't able to capture it but the other day it stayed on so I took a picture. Take a look: http://home.comcast.net/~curry1982/bluescreen2-6-05.jpg
I've tried disabling the /noexecute line in my boot.ini but to no avail. I've just recently upgraded to BIOS 1003 and Forceware 6.39 and they seemed to make the problem worse. I'm not running SLI nor am I trying to overclock. I'm about to try the 71.xx drivers from Nvidia tonight...anybody know where to get them?

Setup:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
1 XFX 6600GT PCIe

 

[johnh123]

I've had this same problem- DEP is off- any solutions?

 

[JMag]

If you haven't seen this solution elsewhere, just rememeber that the 6.39 ethernet drivers seem to be reporting instability. If you installed the 6.39 nForce drivers, then roll back your ethernet...

 

[johnh123]

Is it better to use the marvell lan than the nvidia? I don't use the nvidia firewall features.