little help

[stoianm]

Hi all,

i just bought an nvidia geforce GTX465 and after installed the latest drivers (v8.17.12.6658) - my computer restart from time to time.

I made a fresh sh5 instalation and i received a message that sh5 installer detected that my version of driver is to old and maybe i will have problems.

If somebody use the same type of video card (or has an ideea) please tell me what is the version of driver that are stable - or what is the cause of these restarts - the last trywill be to reinstall the os - but i am sure that is another solution

I am using win7 - 64 bit, 4 gb ram, cpu dual core 2.8G

Thanks for the help

[TheDarkWraith]

I have GTX480 and use this driver version: 258.96_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_english_whql (8.17.12.5896 in control panel)

I also have Win 7 64 bit

No problems what-so-ever

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

I have GTX480 and use this driver version: 258.96_desktop_win7_winvista_64bit_english_whql (8.17.12.5896 in control panel)

I also have Win 7 64 bit

No problems what-so-ever

Thank you TDW - i will search these drivers.

Really apreciate

[Trevally.]

I am using the same drivers. I am also told they are old but they are not.
Everyone with new nvidia drivers are getting this error.

Does you whole PC shut down and restart on it own
Did you install the card yourself
Did this start after you installed the card

I talked only the other month about a PC random rebooting.
Possible probs were:-

Power pack too small
Overheating due to a bad setted graphics card

Turned out it was a faulty card.

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by Trevally.

I am using the same drivers. I am also told they are old but they are not.
Everyone with new nvidia drivers are getting this error.

Does you whole PC shut down and restart on it own
YES
Did you install the card yourself
yes i did by myself but in a proper way (i used to work as computer technician when i was young).

Did this start after you installed the card
YES

I talked only the other month about a PC random rebooting.
Possible probs were:-

Power pack too small
Not in my case - power source professional

Overheating due to a bad setted graphics card
Had not time to overheating - rebooted as soon as instaled the new drv

Turned out it was a faulty card.

I do not think is a faulty card

Thanks trevally

[TheDarkWraith]

what size PS are you using? I use the EVO Galaxy 1.2kW. This ensures I'm good for at least a couple of years before I need to upgrade the PS One thing to check is that your PS rails can supply the needed amperage to the video card. Some PSs can't push the needed amperage from some of the rails in it - you have to use specific rails for video cards.

Another thing to look at is mobo settings. Some mobos let you limit the amount of power the video card can use. Some Asus mobos are this way.

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by TheDarkWraith

what size PS are you using? I use the EVO Galaxy 1.2kW. This ensures I'm good for at least a couple of years before I need to upgrade the PS One thing to check is that your PS rails can supply the needed amperage to the video card. Some PSs can't push the needed amperage from some of the rails in it - you have to use specific rails for video cards.

Another thing to look at is mobo settings. Some mobos let you limit the amount of power the video card can use. Some Asus mobos are this way.

I am using PS spire reality silent 650W - i will check about these mobos and amperage

[Trevally.]

For me the rebooting would happen only when a game was running.
Even then it would go for ages until some video or high demand part of the game started.

In SH5 this could happen any time - normally about 30 to 60 mins in.

Mass Effect 2 gave real problems - every cut scene - reboot

Hope you get it fixed without hassle.

[stoianm]

Originally Posted by Trevally.

For me the rebooting would happen only when a game was running.
Even then it would go for ages until some video or high demand part of the game started.

In SH5 this could happen any time - normally about 30 to 60 mins in.

Mass Effect 2 gave real problems - every cut scene - reboot

Hope you get it fixed without hassle.

I had reboots in IEexplorer not in game - i had not time to enter in game - the reebots happends to fast

So you are seeing that the message that sh5 popup for me that my drv is to old it is normal?

[Trevally.]

Originally Posted by stoianm

So you are seeing that the message that sh5 popup for me that my drv is to old it is normal?

Yes - this started a few versions ago

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by stoianm

So you are seeing that the message that sh5 popup for me that my drv is to old it is normal?

Normal. Did it to me also. But like I said I have no problems with the current nVidia driver I'm using.

[Stormfly]

Originally Posted by stoianm

I had reboots in IEexplorer not in game - i had not time to enter in game - the reebots happends to fast

So you are seeing that the message that sh5 popup for me that my drv is to old it is normal?

still on WIN XP here, not shure what WIN7 is doing by default if a so called "bluescreen" is comming up, but there must be also an option to halt the system to be able reading that "bluescreen" without doing an auto reset.

your system have also an eventlog, plz check it.

if you cant find any understanable information from that bluescreen (halted bluescreen) or eventlog entry(s), past them into google...