Post by Burst on Feb 1, 2012 14:55:15 GMT -5
So I've got a 2007 Lenovo Thinkpad T61, that I upgraded to Windows 7 last summer, along with a new, bigger internal HD. Since then I hadn't really had any problems until the last few months.
It started with random crashes during YouTube videos and livestreams, where the NVIDIA driver would freeze randomly and give me a blue screen, after scrambling the graphics and hanging.
Now, over the past few days, it's gotten worse and worse. My computer crashed while typing this, and sometimes it doesn't even boot all the way before the graphics scramble up and it hangs.
More recently, it's crashed and restarted itself, a la "NVIDIA graphics driver has stopped responding but recovered", but at the same time I've also been getting:
-Complete lock-ups, e.g. freeze without even a BSOD or black screen
-Graphics onscreen scrambling with weird colors and artifacting, then either freezing, BSODing, or black screening
-Memory Parity Error BSODs that seem to be only connected because they began appearing at the same time.
Now I haven't been able to maintain any damn sense of continuity with my computer and I'm scared of working with anything without an autosave just because of how frequent the crashes have become.
It used to be just during YouTube videos, now lately it's crashed while not even having anything graphically intensive going on, like, again, while typing this, originally.
All I can think of at this point is that the card itself is going bad, either that or NVIDIA's drivers are pieces of s***. I upgraded the driver to its most recent version and it only made it worse; I downgraded it to a few versions ago and it's stayed the same, so I've got no damn idea.
I got a GPU monitor downloaded and it shows the card running at around 60C; I know some of the sites have said that it's a temperature thing, but I don't know. I'm not trying to OC it or anything, and it's a laptop so I'm scared that changing the card might be more trouble than it's worth. Which is annoying, since I did just do all the upgrades and what not to it.
I've got nothing. This has just been obscenely annoying.
Edit: It's an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M card.
It started with random crashes during YouTube videos and livestreams, where the NVIDIA driver would freeze randomly and give me a blue screen, after scrambling the graphics and hanging.
Now, over the past few days, it's gotten worse and worse. My computer crashed while typing this, and sometimes it doesn't even boot all the way before the graphics scramble up and it hangs.
More recently, it's crashed and restarted itself, a la "NVIDIA graphics driver has stopped responding but recovered", but at the same time I've also been getting:
-Complete lock-ups, e.g. freeze without even a BSOD or black screen
-Graphics onscreen scrambling with weird colors and artifacting, then either freezing, BSODing, or black screening
-Memory Parity Error BSODs that seem to be only connected because they began appearing at the same time.
Now I haven't been able to maintain any damn sense of continuity with my computer and I'm scared of working with anything without an autosave just because of how frequent the crashes have become.
It used to be just during YouTube videos, now lately it's crashed while not even having anything graphically intensive going on, like, again, while typing this, originally.
All I can think of at this point is that the card itself is going bad, either that or NVIDIA's drivers are pieces of s***. I upgraded the driver to its most recent version and it only made it worse; I downgraded it to a few versions ago and it's stayed the same, so I've got no damn idea.
I got a GPU monitor downloaded and it shows the card running at around 60C; I know some of the sites have said that it's a temperature thing, but I don't know. I'm not trying to OC it or anything, and it's a laptop so I'm scared that changing the card might be more trouble than it's worth. Which is annoying, since I did just do all the upgrades and what not to it.
I've got nothing. This has just been obscenely annoying.
Edit: It's an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 150M card.
