BSOD 116 while playing heavy load games

Kamachi said:

Tested with another driver version.
Played 2 stages of MW without any black screen, but when I thought that the problem is gone... I got another two black screens.

No Bluescreens.

Any suggestion? I wonder if the problem isn't that TDR thing...

bluescreens is windows shutting down to protect your system from a fatal error which could damage the integrity of your operating system, whereas a blackscreen is the video driver failing and windows will then attempt to recover .............

Video cards, as will other hardware, can fail for no apparent reason, by no fault of the user. It's just part of the fallen world we live in.

Kamachi said:

I'm startin' to believe that my video card is sayin' goodbye

But it's just dont make any sense! I mean, when I get rid of this firewall, i can assure that the Bsod is gone and the frequency of Black Screens has lowered! And my GPU work on these temps for like two years.

I've oppened the case, cleaned all the dust, aimed a big fan on the video card and, even with low temp, i still gettin' black screens. All on the motherboard seens just fine... No burned things. The VGA coller is working.

So... Is it possible for a video card just... Die?

Gonna try others drivers.

Thx for all the help!

what is your motherboard make and model and are all the drivers (especially chipset) fully up to date ?

Kamachi said:

ickymay said:

Kamachi said:

I'm startin' to believe that my video card is sayin' goodbye

But it's just dont make any sense! I mean, when I get rid of this firewall, i can assure that the Bsod is gone and the frequency of Black Screens has lowered! And my GPU work on these temps for like two years.

I've oppened the case, cleaned all the dust, aimed a big fan on the video card and, even with low temp, i still gettin' black screens. All on the motherboard seens just fine... No burned things. The VGA coller is working.

So... Is it possible for a video card just... Die?

Gonna try others drivers.

Thx for all the help!

what is your motherboard make and model and are all the drivers (especially chipset) fully up to date ?

Gigabyte, M61SME-S2L.
And no. I never updade any driver of the motherboard.

Please follow all advice given. That way we can rule out as many possibilities as possible, saving you a trip to the computer shop.

Thank you,

~Jonathan

Kamachi said:

ickymay said:

Kamachi said:

I'm startin' to believe that my video card is sayin' goodbye

But it's just dont make any sense! I mean, when I get rid of this firewall, i can assure that the Bsod is gone and the frequency of Black Screens has lowered! And my GPU work on these temps for like two years.

I've oppened the case, cleaned all the dust, aimed a big fan on the video card and, even with low temp, i still gettin' black screens. All on the motherboard seens just fine... No burned things. The VGA coller is working.

So... Is it possible for a video card just... Die?

Gonna try others drivers.

Thx for all the help!

what is your motherboard make and model and are all the drivers (especially chipset) fully up to date ?

Gigabyte, M61SME-S2L.
And no. I never updade any driver of the motherboard.

you need to find your motherboard revision number and current bios then check for updates for bios and drivers, the easiest way would be use the GIGABYTE Download Center

if for any reason that will not work then you need to find the revision number of your motherboard manually :The revision number should be printed on the board between the pci slots. If it's not you can press the pause/break key during the POST screen and you should be able to see bios version at the top or bottom of your screen.

then go to gigabytes website and follow the download link to update all of your drivers and bios if needed ?

let us know how it goes and ask if your stuck