June 13, 200818 yr well.. whilst playing TF2 the other day I get a random BSoD. no problem I think... so I reboot, and get a nasty message telling me that my BIOS isnt ACPI compliant.. eep. Another reboot solves this.. so I dunno what that was all about. Anyway, now I cant play any games for more than 10 or 15 minutes without it bluescreening. (not a BSoD with text, just a blue screen) I think it may have something to do with the fact that I may have 2 sets of gfx drivers installed for some reason. The problem is I have no idea how to get rid of one set. that leads me to believe I have two sets installed. I'd give my PC a month, maybe 2, tops before it finally bites the dust. Its overheating almost constantly now and becoming slower and slower every day. I just want to know if theres anything I can do to prolong the inevitable.
June 13, 200818 yr Have you cleaned out the internal part of you computer such as fans? Also you could uninstall all of your ATI drivers and reinstall the latest one.
June 13, 200818 yr clean it out and remove all drivers (which should be possible from add/remove programs), then re-install the newest version. also, backup all your important data if you really think its about to give.
June 13, 200818 yr Author I think I've gotten rid of the old set of drivers. At least the icon is gone since I removed all of them and then put on a new version. Tips for cleaning out the inside of a very very dusty PC please?
June 13, 200818 yr If you're going to vacuum make sure the computer and vacuum are both grounded. The static can fry your computer otherwise. "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
June 13, 200818 yr if you don't even just having a cloth or something and wiping the dust from the fans can really help. Also have you solved the problem by uninstalling that extra set of drivers or is it still BSoDing?
June 13, 200818 yr Author if you don't even just having a cloth or something and wiping the dust from the fans can really help. Also have you solved the problem by uninstalling that extra set of drivers or is it still BSoDing? managed to get 40 minutes of TF2 in a row without it giving up so I guess I've done something right. I've also got a pretty big fan going at full power pointed at the side of my PC and it seems to be doing a good job of cooling it down. I've wiped the fans over with a cloth, but theres still sh*tloads of dust on all of the parts. I dont really wanna touch anything else.
June 13, 200818 yr If you can open your computer case, just wipe the insides down with a damp cloth and let the water dry before using it again. As long as the computer is not plugged in the water will not damage the computer, and wiping it off should fix your overheating problems unless you have a broken fan or something.
June 13, 200818 yr Yeah, be sure to check that your GPU and CPU fans are working correctly. Also, download speedfan if you can and post some of the temperatures of CPU/GPU and such. That might give us a good idea if it is overheating.
June 13, 200818 yr Not sure what to tell you. If I were you, a can of compressed air inside and around the graphics card and everything else should do the trick. See if that fixes your problem. I was going to eat hot dogs for dinner tonight. I think I will settle for cereal. OPEN WIDE HERE COMES THE HELICOPTER.
June 14, 200818 yr Author How much does compressed air cost? / where can I get it from? It sounds like a good solution.
June 14, 200818 yr You can buy cans of it i personally have an air compressor but can's will do too. Something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6899888208
June 14, 200818 yr For a tabletop computer, CPU heat of 50+c is VERY high and could possibly damage it over time. If it starts running at 55/60c+ while playing games, you will occassionally get BSoD because the system protects itself from selfdestruction (by running at abnormal heat levels). I saw this happen to my friend & he has a similar 'configuration' (open case with a huge fan blowing air to cool it) The fan speed is a bug, Speedfan can't read the speed meters from all motherboards so it displays 0. If a temperature can't be read it'll show -37 or 0 too. Point of comparison: My tabletop computer, 3.2ghz, runs at 18-25 celsius degrees idle, 30-45 if a game is being played, depending on how intensive it's resource use is.
June 14, 200818 yr Well, if I want to get a cooler fan or something for my desktop(there's an intel fan, but I'm afraid the fan isn't strong enough), could someone suggest a cheap fan to use that'll cool the graphics card in particular? My Core readings in Speedfan is at ~80C and I haven't had any problems, except when stuff turned white in HL2. I was going to eat hot dogs for dinner tonight. I think I will settle for cereal. OPEN WIDE HERE COMES THE HELICOPTER.
June 15, 200818 yr Author AAAARGH! The second tray icon decides to randomly appear again 5 startups later. I bloody hate this machine.
June 15, 200818 yr I don't know that is needs to be taken to this extent but my solution is reinstall the OS that narrows out alot of issues.
June 15, 200818 yr Author I don't know that is needs to be taken to this extent but my solution is reinstall the OS that narrows out alot of issues. heh. the ancient set of drivers (late 2004 I think) that I want to get shot of is on the OS recovery disc. If I reinstall the OS, those drivers come with it. I've got C:/ATI as well as C:/Program files/ATI Technologies as directories. Can somebody else with an ATI card check to see if they have both of these?
June 15, 200818 yr I've got C:/ATI as well as C:/Program files/ATI Technologies as directories. Can somebody else with an ATI card check to see if they have both of these? I have an ATI Radeon card, only c:/program files/ATI Technologies in windows files, directory C:/ATI hasn't been autocreated.. Maybe when you installed both old and the new drivers you manually selected to put the old/new into C:/ATI
June 15, 200818 yr Could also be your recovery cd that installs them like that. I have always seen things by default install stuff in C:\ for permission reasons.
June 15, 200818 yr I've got C:/ATI as well as C:/Program files/ATI Technologies as directories. Can somebody else with an ATI card check to see if they have both of these? I've got both, but don't have any problems, plus I only see one ATI icon. There's no such thing as regret. A regret means you are unhappy with the person you are now,and if you're unhappy with the person you are, you change yourself. Thatregret will no longer be a regret, because it will help to form the new,better you. So really, a regret isn't a regret. It's experience.
June 19, 200818 yr Author I got the message from my BSoD. Could somebody please take a look at it? STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xBF801193, 0xB95B2A48, 0x00000000) win32k.sys Address BF801193 base at BF800000 Datestamp 47e0e106
June 19, 200818 yr I got the message from my BSoD. Could somebody please take a look at it? STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0xBF801193, 0xB95B2A48, 0x00000000) win32k.sys Address BF801193 base at BF800000 Datestamp 47e0e106 0x0000008E are usually hardware errors, although they are known to be driver issues as well. Download Driver Cleaner from here: http://www.afterdawn.com/software/deskt ... er_pro.cfm and use it to uninstall every graphics driver, then install them again. If you still get bsoded, then download memtest and run it for a few hours. If you get errors, then you have corrupted ram chips.
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