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Geforce GT 8800 OC is Bugged...

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Started by EmptyVoid May 10, 2008 07:07 PM

9 comments, last by Cygon 16 years, 1 month ago

EmptyVoid

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May 10, 2008 07:07 PM

I always liked card from Nvidia but everyone I have ever had was bugged and the Geforce GT 8800 OC is no exception. It's awesome but there seems to be a small bug... It goes crazy for about 5 seconds in vista randomly while I'm playing a game then the screen will go black. Everything goes back to normal and vista reports that the driver had a error and reset. Does anyone know what the problem is?

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daviangel

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May 10, 2008 07:32 PM

Make sure you have the latest drivers.
Yeah Nvidia drivers crashed quite a bit with my 8800 vidcard when I first started using it. I even read that Microsoft was blaming Nvidia for it's poor acceptance due to the fact that like 30% of crashes were caused by Nvidia?
Anyways, I haven't had a crash on Vista for quite a long time now so maybe they finally fixed it.

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fpsgamer

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May 10, 2008 08:07 PM

Quote: Original post by EmptyVoid
Everything goes back to normal and vista reports that the driver had a error and reset. Does anyone know what the problem is?

Maybe its the driver.

ViperG

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May 10, 2008 08:35 PM

What brand is it? My guess is bad memory on the card, because I used to have a evga card that did that.

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MindWipe

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May 11, 2008 04:39 AM

Or maybe you got the problem I have. I got an EVGA OC:ed card. If I play Crysis with it, it overheats and goes all weird and freezes at some point. I should return it, as it doesn't handle the OC correctly. A friend with the same card lowered the clocks.

/MindWipe

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polymorphed

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May 11, 2008 05:54 AM

Vista + nVidia = Problem

Keep updating your drivers.
Does this error occur with a specific game?

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SamLowry

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May 11, 2008 06:33 AM

Quote: Original post by MindWipe
Or maybe you got the problem I have. I got an EVGA OC:ed card. If I play Crysis with it, it overheats and goes all weird and freezes at some point. I should return it, as it doesn't handle the OC correctly. A friend with the same card lowered the clocks.

/MindWipe

Same card (8800GT, EVGA, OC) here.

Does the fan speed up while you're playing? There used to be a bug which kept the fan speed at 29% with overheating as consequence. Normally they should have fixed that by now, but you never now.
I need RivaTuner to keep track of the temperature and change the fan speed accordingly. There's also the possibility of upgrading the GPU's BIOS.

EmptyVoid

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May 12, 2008 04:26 PM

How do I find the temperature?

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Imgelling

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May 12, 2008 11:56 PM

Got a OC 8800 GTS here, yeah its not a GT, but I thought I would respond. I used to have a problem with either my computer's or my card's fan going ape **** and my computer rebooting after installing it (up from a 8500 which was out performed by my 7600 but thats another story). 2 bios updates and a new driver fixed it (don't know what did it though..sorry) and its been running perfect ever since. Hope you find a solution, spending good money on something just to make it crash your **** makes a imgelling go CRAZY, as I am sure you too!

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