Purple Screen in XP after Vista 64-bit Install

[randomizer]

The last error is an nvidia driver error. I'm not sure about the others. Run drivercleaner in windows safe mode to remove all traces of the drivers then reinstall them.

 

[apache_lives]

PSOD?

 

[Epicus]

PSOD?

Heh, close, except the "of death" term only applies when there is text and some type of error displayed on top of it. In this instance, there is no such error, just purple-ness.

 

[nlel1975]

Heh, close, except the "of death" term only applies when there is text and some type of error displayed on top of it. In this instance, there is no such error, just purple-ness.

Hi I`m having a similar issue with my system and I believe its the PSU specs;

Q6600 @ 3ghz
4GB RAM
Gigabyte 8800GT OC Edition
500GB SATA II Hard Drive
Q-TEC 500W PSU

I built the machine about 3 months ago and the ColorsIT 480W PSU that was originally in the case died after a few days, I had no black/purple screen problems up untill that point. Then I installed the Q-TEC 500W as its the only spare PSU that I have.

Since then I`ve expierienced 1-2 bluescreens at bootup and about 4-5 times screen has gone black or purple during games and also at the desktop and the machine required a reboot.

Also occasionally when playing mp3 thru winamp the sound will become distorted. I`ve put it down to the PSU as I`ve been running the crappy Q-TEC 500W to power quite a meaty system for the last 2-3 months before getting round to replacing it.

I`m getting an OCZ StealthXtreme 600W which I believe fits into the Tier2 of the PSUs mentioned above.

 

[Epicus]

Well I went to my local retailer yesterday to pick up a new case, VH6000BWS, because they had a deal for $99 brand new. Well, they were sold out, so I ended up picking up a Cosair 750TX instead for $99.00 after rebates. I haven't had any issues yet, so it looks like the gurus of the thread, as much as I hated them for suggesting it and as much as I didn't want to believe it, my PSU infact was the bad seed in my PC. Thanks for all the help guys.

 

[nlel1975]

I couldn't get the OCZ 600W so got a Corsair 520W HX series instead and I`m now hoping the problems dissapear. It sometimes went for 2 weeks without problems before because I don't really use the system heavily - I hardly ever play games so I guess I didn't see the problem as much as I could of although lately it had been freezing and also sometimes the screen just going black in windows quite a few times - once it completely powered down and restarted.

 

[Shadow703793]

^Also makesure that you set the correct RAM voltage.

 

[Shadow703793]

Well I went to my local retailer yesterday to pick up a new case, VH6000BWS, because they had a deal for $99 brand new. Well, they were sold out, so I ended up picking up a Cosair 750TX instead for $99.00 after rebates. I haven't had any issues yet, so it looks like the gurus of the thread, as much as I hated them for suggesting it and as much as I didn't want to believe it, my PSU infact was the bad seed in my PC. Thanks for all the help guys.

Thy has now learned the valuable lesson of getting quality parts. Remember when choosing something more $ dose not always equal good quality. Next time do your self the favor of getting good parts. 😀. Trust me I have made smiler mistakes (ie. getting a socket478 CPU/motherboard when they almost were dying/dead) as you but we should learn from the mistakes.

 

[nlel1975]

^Also makesure that you set the correct RAM voltage.

My RAM uses 1.8v by default but as I have it running at 429mhz (its PC2-5300) I have to set a RAM voltage of 2.1v otherwise its not Prime95 stable @ 400mhz and above. It has always passed a Prime95 test fine at current settings so I don't suspect there is a problem with the RAM/CPU at this setting, and besides I had some problems when I had the RAM set lower using its default value of 1.8v. In summary I don't think these problems are related to my overclocked settings, but I promise to report back in 3-4 weeks with an update, I don't want to jump to any conclusions at the moment.

 

[Epicus]

Thy has now learned the valuable lesson of getting quality parts. Remember when choosing something more $ dose not always equal good quality. Next time do your self the favor of getting good parts. 😀. Trust me I have made smiler mistakes (ie. getting a socket478 CPU/motherboard when they almost were dying/dead) as you but we should learn from the mistakes.

Well I'm sure you'd be glad to know that after all of that and me saying that this problem is over... everything ran great until I put new HSF (Arctic Pro Freezer 7) with arctic silver... first XP stalled on splash, then after soft reset, I got solid purple screen (aka no text).... rebooted, then my monitor went black soon thereafter (BSOD no text) and eventviewer has nothin for me. So it looks like I'm back to square one... I'm sure no one will give me a good solution... I wonder if I should go bribe the guys at geeksquad with a case of Bawlz.

 

[nlel1975]

I too am still expieriencing the problem, it first happened about a week ago after I had just reconnected my DVD Drive and booted - the screen just went black when I tried to access a DVD, I carried on using the system untill today when I loaded Call of Duty 4 the screen went black just as I was selecting a player class.

I`ve now loading system defaults with no CPU/Memory overclocking just in case it has something to do with that, maybe its prime95 stable but not stable in actual use? I dunno I`m guessing but I`m going to run like this and report back, the last thing I can try is too lower my gpu overclock as my card is factory overclocked, I`ll try that if I stilll have problems.

Once I`ve set everything to stock values and if it still happens then I`m looking at a hardware fault.

 

[nlel1975]

I started looking into it being a gfx overclock problem and found loads of references to the blank/purple screen problem in relation to the Gigabyte 8800GT OC card, it appears that Gigabyte overclocked their card too far and underclocking it solves the problem so I am going to try that, as you also have an overclocked card it might be worth you trying this also, you can do it with Rivatuner or ntune.