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This might fit under gaming or drivers, but I don't know where to go so I'll just go here, since my computer is Vista.

I was playing a game when the screen suddenly froze, turned green and pixelated with sound looping, and sat there. It wouldn't respond to any command, so I had to cut the power. I restarted and tried another completely different game, and twenty minutes later the same thing happened.

This has never occured before, so far it hasn't occured when I'm not playing (it's only been an hour) and I've had this computer for three-four years. What is going on? The first time after I rebooted, I got a message saying "driver (something) has been recovered," but not the second time.

Can anyone tell me what's going on? I've never had such a drastic and consistant failure before and I don't know what to do.

 

[reventon]

Update your graphics drivers from your chipset manufacturers site.

Nvidia -> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

ATI -> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Then see if the problem still occurs

 

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Well, the problem caused my computer to crash and I could only restart on safe mode. On the advice of someone else I tried uninstalling my drivers and reinstalling them from the disk(which we kept around), since as in safe mode I had no internet, I couldn't download it from the site. I uninstalled it but couldn't reinstall it, getting a vague "met error while trying to install, failed to blah blah blah".

So I boot it up this morning and suddenly I can access normal mode again. Maybe it was a temporary problem and maybe not, I can't tell because I uninstalled the drivers and now everything is pixelated and green. Suffice to say I haven't even tried to play a game.

Anyways my computer is now struggling to install the drivers again. Should that do the trick, provided I update them after?

 

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Oh, I installed it and restarted, and got a screen of green, blue and white squares when it restarted. Wonderful.

 

[joeten]

Hi try going into safemode with networking you will ave access to the net then and can get the updated driver downloaded and install

 

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I just tried that, it didn't help. When I restart after the update I just get that multi colored screen again.

 

[joeten]

Hi what is the make and model of the computer or if a custom build the make and model of the motherboard,graphics card,sound,ram,cpu,power supply and wattage

 

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I have a 2.6 ghz dual core processor, 2 gb ram, nvidia 7600GT, HP Pavilion a1730n with Vista 32 bit. Power is a ModXStream Pro 700w. Can't really remember anything else.

Another development; I called Nvidia and they said that it sounded like a hardware problem, not a software, and I would have to get the card fixed or replaced. Does that sound right?

 

[reventon]

Yes, hardware problem.

If you can get to the desktop fine (?) then you can confirm if it is a faulty graphics card.

Simply run this graphics stress test.

FurMark Setup:
Download from here: http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
- If you have more than one GPU, select Multi-GPU during setup
- In the Run mode box, select "Stability Test" and "Log GPU Temperature"
Click "Go" to start the test
- Run the test until the GPU temperature maxes out - or until you start having problems (whichever comes first).
- Click "Quit" to exit

If you get the same error then it is hardware.

 

[joeten]

Yup that would be the way

 

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Well, I tried it and it leveled off at 102 or 3 or so and nothing happened, just that fuzzy donut rotating all the time. So what does this mean, exactly?

 

[joeten]

Hi if there is something wrong that did not tell us anything please try http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_en/index.php?Download this and if it comes up with nothing get back in touch with the makers and let them know you have run both these test you can link them to this thread via email