Recent content by makaveli-dave

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    7970 crashing over and over

    Tonight I've been able to game all night without a single crash - I put it in the 2nd pci slot... Its only been a few hours so its not conclusive yet, but that would make it appear to be a fault with the main pci slot on the motherboard (only 6 months old) yet I have been using a 8800GT in that...
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    7970 crashing over and over

    I have just changed the power profile to never put the computer to sleep and never turn off the display - the crashes have happened while the pc has been in use , making me believe that hibernation has nothing to do with it, but I will see what happens. I have windows installed on a backup hdd...
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    7970 crashing over and over

    Not one easily accessible but I am working on borrowing one to try it in for a couple days
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    7970 crashing over and over

    The crashing started before the nvidia drivers were ever installed. Also I reformatted this morning when the card arrived back so the only card/driver that had ever been in that install was the AMD one. CPU temps are around 38 degrees idle. gaming wise I think it gets to around 60+, not...
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    7970 crashing over and over

    Hi there, Hoping someone might be able to shed some light on these problems. In January I purchased a PowerColor HD 7970. It has worked for 3 months without any issues what so ever. Then suddenly it started crashing. Initially in game in The Witcher 2 but then in other games and even on the...
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    Geforce Go7600 GT driver?

    Hey there, I have a Sony Vaio VGN-AR21S with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 GT graphics card running on the Windows 7 RC. The problem I have is that I cannot seem to update the graphics card driver from the original prerelease driver. I have tried the Nvidia driver pack for the notebook Go 7600 and...
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    Boot Problems - Very Strange

    Hey there. I have been searching the net for help on this and im hoping that I will have some luck from the nice people here :) My laptop has 2 harddrives. One had Windows XP MCE and the was just for media storage etc. Last night something stupid went through my brain and I thought it would be...