Specs:
Vista Home Premium
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
2gb RAM
GeForce 7950 GT 256mb
MSI RS480M2 motherboard
The computer usually locks up during video gaming (bf2142 and guildwars), but it also has happened when I'm not in game. There are very rare occasions when the computer will recover and tell me that my video drivers have failed and successfully recovered, however, most of the time it will just blue screen and poop. So it seems like it's a compatibility between either the nVidia drivers/cards, motherboard, and/or vista. I have tried three different sets of drivers and all suffer from the same problem. It's not my processor or specific video card because I've recently replaced those and the exact same problem has occurred on a 3000+ and 6600GT. The three nVidia drivers I've tested are: 158.18, 158.24, and the beta drivers 160.04
Any ideas on what the specific problem is or what I should try next?
edit: I've also updated all my motherboard BIOS and drivers, no improvement.
Vista Home Premium
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
2gb RAM
GeForce 7950 GT 256mb
MSI RS480M2 motherboard
The computer usually locks up during video gaming (bf2142 and guildwars), but it also has happened when I'm not in game. There are very rare occasions when the computer will recover and tell me that my video drivers have failed and successfully recovered, however, most of the time it will just blue screen and poop. So it seems like it's a compatibility between either the nVidia drivers/cards, motherboard, and/or vista. I have tried three different sets of drivers and all suffer from the same problem. It's not my processor or specific video card because I've recently replaced those and the exact same problem has occurred on a 3000+ and 6600GT. The three nVidia drivers I've tested are: 158.18, 158.24, and the beta drivers 160.04
Any ideas on what the specific problem is or what I should try next?
edit: I've also updated all my motherboard BIOS and drivers, no improvement.