System crash

2006-03-17 11:04:00

#1

Prodie: Moderator Emeritus; +270|7061|Nova Scotia, Canada

Well, I've had this happen twice when I was playing BF2.

I'd be just playing the game, and suddenly my monitor would go black. The little green light on the front beside the on switch would turn orange like it's gone into it's standby mode, but it would stay in that. (Usually, you just move the mouse to get it back from standby mode)

I tried unplugging the monitor cords and plugging them all back in, and suddenly the computer restarted. When it booted up, one of those Windows error messages poped up saying that the system crashed due to the display.....something (forget what it said exactly)....and it went on about my video card.

I tried getting the latest drivers and it's been okay since then, but then again, it only happened twice within the span of a few weeks.......it could do it again anytime soon.

Just wondering if anybody heard of something happening like this, or if anyone has any suggestions.

System specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 754PIN 512K L2 Cache
1024MB (1 GB) DDR400 PC3200 Memory
ASUS K8V SE Deluxe Mother Board
ASUS V9999/GT GF-6800GT

2006-04-11 09:05:18

#2

walyl135: Member; +7|6919|(UK) SOUTH LONDON GUV'NOR

sounds like the graphics buffer is f*cked or your drivers are poorly installed....... have you over clocked it too much if you have you may have burnt out the graphics memory, by the looks of your graf its not great for gaming try getting a Radeon high end or a nvidia (nvidias tend to be more BF friendly) one last thing does it happen on the desktop

2006-04-11 10:01:25

#3

AnarkyXtra: BF2s EU Server Admin; +67|7074|Hanging onto the UAV

wtf are you on about? That 6800GT is fine for playing games...

2006-04-11 14:11:08

#4

slo5oh: Member; +28|6947

AnarkyXtra wrote:
wtf are you on about? That 6800GT is fine for playing games...

+1
wally's on crack. 6800GT is a pimp video card.

AnarkyXtra,
If you're saying you reloaded the "Monitor" drivers, you're not done.
1 Download the new nvidia driver
2 Go into add/remove programs and remove your current nvidia driver.
3 reboot
4 load new driver

2006-04-11 14:21:42

#5

wooly-back-jack: Jihaaaaaad!!!; +84|7027|England

keyword being 'Asus'
I have Asus EN6800Gt and I kept crashing, I know what you are on about there mate.
Was frustrating for me also, uninstall Asus enhanced driver (atkDisp.dll is probably what it said on the blue screen yeah?), uninstall Nvidia driver, reinstall Nvidia driver and dont go near Asus enhanced driver again.
Also turn off power saving/stand-by on monitor cos when you are flying with a joystick, that isnt moving a mouse and your monitor goes to stand-by doesnt pick up joystick for some reason.

Last edited by wooly-back-jack (2006-04-11 14:28:30)

2006-04-11 15:12:13

#6

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,056|7058|PNW

Download the latest WHQL NVIDIA Forceware drivers from Guru3D, and download a copy of DriverCleaner. Run DriverCleaner on Safe Mode and get rid of any video driver pertaining to NVIDIA or ASUS (don't touch the mainboard drivers unless you have a backup CD). Now go install your spanking new NVIDIA Forceware drivers. Make sure all in-Windows nvidia enhancements are disabled, as they'll negatively impact the performance of your game.

And the 6800GT isn't the best, but is perfectly acceptable. Battlefield 2's detail can be turned down insanely low, but it still requires memory more than anything else. Nothing wrong with a gig, though.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-04-11 15:12:30)

2006-04-11 18:32:19

#7

Prodie: Moderator Emeritus; +270|7061|Nova Scotia, Canada

Yay!

I got rid of the old drivers and got the new ones and it's never crashed since.

Thanks for the help guys!

2006-04-13 12:49:53

#8

wooly-back-jack: Jihaaaaaad!!!; +84|7027|England

I run Bf2 perfect on a 6800GT everything on highest settings?
only time I had a problem was when I only had a gig of ram I lagged a bit at the start of each map.
now Ive got 2 gig its perfect, highest settings, 1280x1024

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