Short version: My PC is getting a BSOD at random times when full screen gaming. The BSOD screen says the video card times out.
Long Version:
I have a gaming PC that a friend generously gave me when he built a new one. It's worked great, but in November the Tagan ITZ 700 watt power supply died. He had planned to do SLI and never did, so during Neweggs holiday sale I picked up a Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650 thinking it should be sufficient.
Everything has run smoothly with the new PSU except for the fact that when playing games like Torchlight 2 and Starcraft 2, my machine will BSOD. I had random BSOD's with Starcraft 2 and then suddenly had 4 nights in a row with no problems, but now it keeps crashing at the same spot in the campaign. There is little consistency to the crashes other than that and under normal operations, like email, web browsing, etc, it has only BSOD'd once and that was during a youtube video.
My first thought is that the one thing that has changed recently is the PSU and prior to that I only recall a rare crash here and there. I thought maybe my new PSU wasn't good enough, but everything I've read online about the requirements for the GTX 460, including the manual, say 450 watt minimum and I exceed that.
Here is a list of things I have tried:
- Updated video card and mobo drivers, I have also uninstalled the nvidia drivers, run Driver Sweeper in safe mode, and reinstalled drivers in normal mode. I have also tried legacy drivers.
- Ran GPU-Z to look at temperatures and ran OCCT to stress test the GPU and GPU Ram
- Ran memtest86+ for 12 hours, 8 passes
- Tried running the video card in another PCI-E slot
- Tried running games at lowest graphical settings with no success
- I ran Driver Verifier for 24 hours, but never got a BSOD. Maybe run it longer?
- I also found a link talking about the TDR errors with Windows 7 and added 6 items to the registry that were supposed to help give the video card 60 seconds to catch up, but Starcraft 2 still froze up, so I have since removed the registry items I added.
- Run error-checking via Windows 7 on both HDD
- I have not done any overclocking. I think my video card comes with some overclocked settings but in the bios the clock speed is the lowest it can go.
That's all I can think of right now, hope I didn't forget anything. Any help is most appreciated. Here are my system specs:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Mobo: MS-7380 (MSI P7N SLI Platinum)
Video Card: Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum
PSU: Corsair TX650 Enthusiast Series
RAM: 4GB
HDD: 80 GB Intel SSD
2nd HDD: 149GB SATA
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Long Version:
I have a gaming PC that a friend generously gave me when he built a new one. It's worked great, but in November the Tagan ITZ 700 watt power supply died. He had planned to do SLI and never did, so during Neweggs holiday sale I picked up a Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650 thinking it should be sufficient.
Everything has run smoothly with the new PSU except for the fact that when playing games like Torchlight 2 and Starcraft 2, my machine will BSOD. I had random BSOD's with Starcraft 2 and then suddenly had 4 nights in a row with no problems, but now it keeps crashing at the same spot in the campaign. There is little consistency to the crashes other than that and under normal operations, like email, web browsing, etc, it has only BSOD'd once and that was during a youtube video.
My first thought is that the one thing that has changed recently is the PSU and prior to that I only recall a rare crash here and there. I thought maybe my new PSU wasn't good enough, but everything I've read online about the requirements for the GTX 460, including the manual, say 450 watt minimum and I exceed that.
Here is a list of things I have tried:
- Updated video card and mobo drivers, I have also uninstalled the nvidia drivers, run Driver Sweeper in safe mode, and reinstalled drivers in normal mode. I have also tried legacy drivers.
- Ran GPU-Z to look at temperatures and ran OCCT to stress test the GPU and GPU Ram
- Ran memtest86+ for 12 hours, 8 passes
- Tried running the video card in another PCI-E slot
- Tried running games at lowest graphical settings with no success
- I ran Driver Verifier for 24 hours, but never got a BSOD. Maybe run it longer?
- I also found a link talking about the TDR errors with Windows 7 and added 6 items to the registry that were supposed to help give the video card 60 seconds to catch up, but Starcraft 2 still froze up, so I have since removed the registry items I added.
- Run error-checking via Windows 7 on both HDD
- I have not done any overclocking. I think my video card comes with some overclocked settings but in the bios the clock speed is the lowest it can go.
That's all I can think of right now, hope I didn't forget anything. Any help is most appreciated. Here are my system specs:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Mobo: MS-7380 (MSI P7N SLI Platinum)
Video Card: Palit GTX 460 Sonic Platinum
PSU: Corsair TX650 Enthusiast Series
RAM: 4GB
HDD: 80 GB Intel SSD
2nd HDD: 149GB SATA
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601