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GTX260 Video Artifacting/BSODs
Forgive me now, but this may be a long post because I am at my wit's end with this problem that has been occurring ever since my build (Oct09).
Im running:
AMD Athlon II x4 630 Propus 2.8Ghz Socket AM3 95W
BFG GTX260 "BFGEGTX260MC896OCDE"
Gigabyte MA790GPT-UD3H Mobo with AM3 socket
2x2GB G.Skill F3-10666CL8D-4GBHK
Rosewill Green Series RG630-2 630W PSU
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit on 1600x900 Resolution
Rest of system specs are in my sig
Note: I usually use EVGA precision to crank my video card fan up to about 80%
It started with video artifacting and this problem still occurs, as well as random BSODs.
A link to a youtube video of an example of the video artifacting in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 YouTube - CoDMW2 Bugs.wmv
So, I'll be gaming it up, game will freeze, sometimes telling me the video driver has crashed and recovered, then if I Ctrl+Alt+Del to desktop then back into the game, it will work fine.... sometimes for a couple minutes but mostly for only a few seconds before I have to go back to desktop and back again. Most of the time after doing that over and over, the artifacting will get worse than whats in the my youtube video posted above, and look like its snowing on my screen. If i then restart my pc, it will work just fine, usually for a good amount of time, but eventually will do it again. Also this happens no matter what game I play. I also experience hangs and slight video corruption while playing full screen videos whether it be .avi files from my hard drive or streaming flash videos online.
Now for the BSODs which seem random(I can't find any pattern in them anyway).
I've gotten:
Cache Manager
Memory Management - quite a few times
PFN_List_Corrupt - a few times
And quite a few more which didn't point to any reason. I am attaching a rar file with only 1 minidump in it, because thats all that was in my folder
WHAT I'VE TRIED:
-Basically every nVidia drivers for win7 with no avail
-Updated my BIOS to version F2 which gigabyte's website says is the correct one for my CPU
-Updated the Chipset drivers
-Checked temps while gaming and they stay below 60 degrees Celsius
-Called BFG tech and tried everything they said, but to no avail
-Tried using the other PCI-e 8x slot on my board, no difference
-I've ran memtest86 on the RAM with no errors
-I've also ran a memtest on the VRAM with no errors
According the G.Skill's website, the ram timings should be 8-8-8-21 but my mobo defaulted to 9-9-9-24 so i changed it to what G.Skill suggests.
Could anyone help me PLEASE or at least point me in the right direction. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: I have posted about this before, but had no luck in fixing the issue https://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/40200-problems-my-new-gtx260.html
Last edited by Shook; 24 Mar 2010 at 23:35.
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